GUIDELINES FOR METHODOLOGY AND RESEARCH

The research in Croatia will involve at least 25 students from the University of Political Sciences in Zagreb. Since 2022, Documenta has a mentoring programme with the university, and the students are spending one semester in close contact with the organization, researching its archives and conducting research for their essays. The mentoring programme is part of the course “Cultural Trauma and Politics of Remembrance”, held by professor N. Blanuša. Because the main focus of the course, the mentoring programme regularly includes research and reflection on the victims of WWII, and the wars in the 1990s in former Yugoslavia.

Because of these reasons, the students participating in the mentoring programme in the year 2025 will be involved directly in the research phases of the project. They will participate in a city walk organized by Documenta on forgotten locations of suffering and resistance related to WWII in Zagreb (as for example, former place of the Synagogue; transit camps in the city; places of actions of resistance…). After the walk, the students will have the task to propose creative solutions on how to promote the remembrance of the selected places. Their research and suggestions will be included in the publication for the Croatian case.