Researcher Marija Barović, from the University of Zagreb, is presenting a lecture in English at FAUP, discussing the development of the sardine canning industry in Croatia in the 19th and 20th centuries and its impact on ecological systems.

The session, organized as part of the 'Fishing Architecture' project, coordinated by researcher André Tavares and underway at the Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies, will discuss the results of the Adriatic Spatial Ecologies research.

About the Conference
At the end of the 19th century, the emergence of a sardine canning industry transformed the social and urban structure of villages on the east coast of the Adriatic. Conceived as standard architecture, these production facilities were modified according to the political, social and economic transitions of 20th century Croatia, but also following the changes in the ecological systems in which they were inserted, revealing a capacity for continuous adaptability and flexibility according to the circumstances. Following the clues offered by the so-called "Spatial Ecologies of the Adriatic", this presentation examines the history of the fish processing industry, seeking to determine factors and actors in this process, whether tangible or intangible, human or environmental, while recognizing the impact of these architectures on natural and built systems.

About the speaker
Marija Barović is a doctoral student, researcher and assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Zagreb. She graduated in architecture in 2015 from the University of Zagreb and also attended theÉcole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette. In 2022 she completed a master's degree in Design Studies in History and Philosophy at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her research has focused on the epistemology of space, considering how professional knowledge, cultural forces and common aspirations affect the processes of defining and producing forms. She is currently developing a study on modern architecture and its imaginary based on the relationship between buildings and ecosystems, focusing on the sardine canning industry.

About the Fishing Architecture project
'Fishing Architecture' is a research project by the Center for Architecture and Urbanism Studies of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (CEAU-FAUP), funded by the European Research Council, which will trace an ecological history of North Atlantic architecture from cod, sardines and tuna, in case studies in the United States, Canada, Iceland, England, Norway, France and Portugal.

Free entry (subject to capacity).The conference will be in English, without translation.

Program subject to change (without prior notice).This event may be recorded and disseminated by FAUP through photography and video.

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