Research Projects

Polonca Lovšin
Back to the City, 2011
video animation

Video animation is based on Lovšin’s research on bees and urban beekeeping. The story is told through the main protagonist human, which is a representative of an average individual with fragmented knowledge of biology, history, physics and architecture. His inner dialog reveals his thoughts about human relation to food, nature, countryside and city.



Polonca Lovšin
City Cows, 2009
video animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_elermjBmQ

I am always surprised when I find myself tailing a tractor when driving through the center of Ljubljana, or when I come across people carrying fresh milk cans in the middle of a housing estate. They remind me of rural life, although I am in a city. The city of Ljubljana has a great number of farms. Together with forested areas, they account for two thirds of the territory encompassed by the municipality. What does that mean? Has Ljubljana never fully developed into a city? Or is it perhaps one step ahead in its development, having farms-within-the-city that will provide urbanites with food, something that is bound to become a great advantage in the future.

Polonca Lovšin
Why Slovene Houses Look the Way They Do, 2007
video animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y-Op6_V-1Q

The video work is a result of Polonca’s Lovšin research about Why Slovene Houses Look the Way They Do. The video shows story of Polonca’s family house which her father started to build in the mid 60s in Ljubljana. The house in which more generations were living was slowly growing through time with the help of family inventiveness and simple forms of parallel economy. One can say that the story of their family house is a typical case of one-family houses in Slovenia which are most often built on the basis of “do-it-yourself” way. While overlapping personal story and statistical data about urbanization processes in Slovenia, video introduces to us the different economical, social and aesthetic standards which shape the architectural landscape in Slovenia.