The Carlo Scarpa Award for Gardens is presented to two villages in Bosnia, Osmace and Brezani

The judges of the Carlo Scarpa International Award for Gardens unanimously decided to present the 25th award to Osmace and Brezani, two villages on the plateau above Srebrenica in Bosnia Herzegovina.

The land was devastated and the community destroyed by war, but a small group of households came back in 2005 to take care of the land and create new spaces for living and working. Since 2010 an exchange of know-how with institutions and associations in various countries, including Italy, has permitted introduction of buckwheat cultivation.
The Carlo Scarpa Award recognises the villages of Osmace and Brezani as a clear example of the profound ties that people and communities feel with the places they come from.
In the two villages, the theme of construction of a multicultural space is seen as a unitary simultaneous presence of all, not in terms of allocation of specific positions and roles to those who are different.

(Agnese Bifulco)

Images courtesy of Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche

www.fbsr.it

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