December 11, 2025 | 5:30 PM
12/25
Nikola Radeljković
/ Numen / For Use /
Krešimir Borošak
/ Arhitect /
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Creative Hour: Architecture and Design opens a new conversation on temporary spatial formats and their real capacity to generate social shifts. On Thursday, 11 December at 5:30 PM, at Urania - Space of Creation, we will host Nikola Radeljković and Krešimir Borošak, two authors who explore, in different yet complementary ways, the boundaries of architecture, design, and public space.
Participants:
Nikola Radeljković - product designer, co-founder of Numen / For Use, one of the key figures of the regional and international design scene, known for radical spatial experiments and a transdisciplinary approach.
Krešimir Borošak - Zagreb-based architect, author of numerous spatial installations and theoretical projects exploring the perception of space and the relationship between humans and architecture in post- contemporaneity, as well as author of the visual project Uradci.
Krešimir Borošak begins with the question of whether a pop-up heterotopia can become a tool that counters the inertia of contemporary urban environments. For him, a temporary installation is not merely a formal experiment but a catalyst for thought - a place that exposes a person to a different intensity of perception and compels them to carry newly formed insights forward. Such a space functions as a refuge for reflection: open enough to spark dialogue, tangible enough to leave a mark, yet ephemeral enough to avoid the fate of the monument - a structure that over time becomes only a symbol of an idea that was once alive. Borošak views speculative public interventions as a field for exchanging imaginaries: fleeting thoughts that, through the architectural medium, become spatial situations accessible to others and capable of initiating further reflection.
Nikola Radeljković builds on this through the experience of Numen / For Use, whose spatial experiments curator Jan Boelen described with the phrase “social sculpture.” It points to the collective nature of both creating and using their installations - works completed only when the community physically tests, experiences, and transforms them. The audience is invited into an atypical, immersive, non-private space where the boundaries between object, user, and author dissolve. Such architecture frees public space from its usual passivity and transforms it into a topos of shared experience. Radeljković asks: how far can this potential reach? Is it possible that such multi-sensory, unconventional, and demanding environments open a new definition of the public realm?
Creative Hour brings these two disciplines together to open a discussion on architecture and design as instruments of social thought. Temporariness as strategy, collectivity as method, and experience as a foundation of form - these are the three axes through which contemporary spatial practice will be observed.
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Seats are limited, so please reserve your spot here. Admission is free!