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Irfan Hošić: Design in Sarajevo during the siege

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The Department of Textiles invites the public and the academic community to a lecture by Irfan Hošić, a lecturer from the University of Bihać / Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will take place on July 2, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in room H012 in the AFAD building at Hviezdoslavovo Square 18.

Where?

  • Room H012

    • Building of AFAD, Hviezdoslavovo Square 18, Bratislava

When?

  • On Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from 10:00

 

Design in Besieged Sarajevo

 

A lecture by Bosnian art historian Irfan Hošić, presenting the fascinating topic of design and visual culture in besieged Sarajevo during the 1990s. The lecture is based on his research, which maps how a unique aesthetic of resistance, improvisation, and everyday survival emerged under the extreme conditions of war — from graphic design and propaganda to object design responding to acute resource shortages.

 

*The lecture will be held in English

**The lecture is part of teacher mobility within the CEEPUS program.

 

 

An invitation with centrally aligned text on a light green background. At the top, blue text reads: 'The Department of Textile Design invites you to a lecture by a professor from the University of Bihać / Bosnia and Herzegovina.' Below that, the name 'Irfan Hošić' appears in bold blue. The lecture title follows: 'Design in Sarajevo during the siege,' with the phrase 'during the siege' highlighted in orange. Underneath is the Slovak translation: 'Dizajn v obliehanom Sarajeve,' with the same orange emphasis. At the bottom, event details are listed: 'Wednesday, June 2, 2025 / 10:00 / Room H012 VŠVU / Hviezdoslavovo nám.18, Bratislava.' In smaller blue text at the very bottom: 'The lecture is part of teacher mobility within the CEEPUS program.' The overall design is clean, modern, and focused on readability.

 

Irfan Hošić

 

IG: @irfan.hosic 

unbi.academia.edu/IrfanHosic/CurriculumVitae 

 

Irfan Hošić earned his PhD at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. His research focuses on modern and contemporary art, design in the context of conflict, violence and crisis, as well as the relationship of art to terrorism, post-industrial landscapes, architecture, fashion, and the social context of culture.

 

In 2012, he received the BIRN (Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, Belgrade) journalism award, and in 2016 the Patterns Lectures award from Erste Stiftung and WUS Austria in Vienna. He curated the Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), where he presented the project Garden of Delights by artist Mladen Miljanović.

 

He has been a visiting lecturer at the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan (2013), the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University (2019), and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the College for Creative Studies and Wayne State University in Detroit (2019/2020). He has received research fellowships at universities in Ghent, Michigan, and Paderborn.

 

In 2017, he founded the Revizor Foundation. He works as an associate professor at the University of Bihać, where he is active in curatorial work, publishes scholarly texts, and engages in artistic and cultural research.

 

 

(Portrait photo by Mehmed Mahmutivić, 2024)