PROJECTS:
Collective dreaming under the bridge
Whisper in the Valley
House Signs
Home again
Should I take my shoes off?
Loft reconstruction I
Loft reconstruction II
When no one is around
Dreaming under the Cloak
Sewing, stitching, knitting
Puppet show: Behind the scenes
Report about Public Spaces
Storm and stars
Superheroine from the Palm Garden
Festival Waiting for a Change
Our yard
The Secret Garden: Mystery of Ms.Warden
House Extension
House conversion I
House with a Plinth
Mom's kitchen
Cottage in Sázava
Playwood Cottage
Competition - memorial
Reclaimed Landfill
Beauty in Landfill
Public Curtain
Celebration of Garden
WRITINGS & LECTURES:
Weaving a narrative about space
Cloak: Storytelling as a method of Care
Urbanism and (not)Research
Landscape (Ex)Change
Earch_On Collaboration
ERA 21: Reflection on Postmodernism
In Situ
Everything can be in the yard
Informal
Thinking Together
year: 2025
place: Prague
concept and intervention: Savka Marenić
photos: Nika Datiashvili
sound design: Jonáš Balcar
collaboration: UMPRUM
Lectors: Adina Voldrábová, Aneta Bočková, Tereza Melková, Milena Raičević, Jasmína Lustigová
What if a neglected public space became a place of celebration, imagination, and care? What if a parking lot could turn into a public space for dreaming — a square of dreams?
For one day, a parking lot hidden under Nusle Bridge, at the corner of Oldřichova and Svatoplukova streets, was transformed into a public space for collective dreaming. The participants and inhabitants were invited to dream, write, draw, move, and play— exploring the space through imagination, gestures, and shared creativity. This participatory, performative installation is part of an ongoing artistic research project exploring how fiction and performative gestures can help reimagine and recover urban public spaces, while strengthening their communal potential. It follows the project Whisper in the Valley, an interactive audio walk that used the fiction of the magical Cloak to uncover hidden stories of the Nusle Valley.
The fairy cloak is just a piece of fabric—without body, name, or gender. Yet it becomes a symbol of connection, care, and exploration, not only with the space itself but also within ourselves.
The installation is also part of the development of an upcoming book, The Fairy Cloak, a speculative fiction work that blends collective imagination, performative events, narrative, and ecological awareness. Through personal, collective, and more-than-human perspectives, the Cloak invites readers, participants, and residents into a sensory engagement with overlooked and vulnerable spaces in the Nusle Valley. It demonstrates how small gestures, imagination, and shared creation can transform our perception of these places.
The book embraces a community-based approach, inviting local residents to co-create narratives and deepen their connection with the environments and spaces around them.
The fairy cloak is just a piece of fabric—without body, name, or gender. Yet it becomes a symbol of connection, care, and exploration, not only with the space itself but also within ourselves.
The installation is also part of the development of an upcoming book, The Fairy Cloak, a speculative fiction work that blends collective imagination, performative events, narrative, and ecological awareness. Through personal, collective, and more-than-human perspectives, the Cloak invites readers, participants, and residents into a sensory engagement with overlooked and vulnerable spaces in the Nusle Valley. It demonstrates how small gestures, imagination, and shared creation can transform our perception of these places.
The book embraces a community-based approach, inviting local residents to co-create narratives and deepen their connection with the environments and spaces around them.
year: 2024
place: Prague
concept,script and direction: Savka Marenić
costumes: Savka Marenić
video: Nika Datiaschvili
sound design: Jonáš Richter, Jonáš Balcar, Nikola Janković
performers: Nikola Janković, Gabriela Veselá, Milena Raičević
photos: Adéla Vosičková
collaboration: Umění pro město, GHMP
An immersive audio walk and performance set around Vyšehrad metro station and Nusle Bridge gradually reveals the secrets, legends, and identity of this space through the speculative fiction of the fairy cloak. The Nusle Valley, with its iconic bridge, becomes the stage for a performative shared experience and imagination that blends historical and fictional narratives, weaving together reality and myth. What do we discover when we view the space through the eyes of a tourist and follow a romantic date unfolding in this vulnerable environment?
Whisper in the Valley explored the performative qualities of public transit spaces, offering a different perspective on a place marked by trauma. Through fiction and performance, it aims to highlight the care and build new connection to the space that has been deeply marked by the physical, urban impact of Nusle Bridge, as well as by its psychological and social implications. The Nusle’s bridge which connects the city, it is also a site of personal loss and various transformations, its presence linked to many suicides and social changes that have left an indelible mark on the valley.
The walk was enriched by original music, field recordings, and costumes that amplify the narrative and stimulate the audience's imagination and interpretation of story.
year: 2023
place: Brno
collaboration: Petra Šebová, Faculty of Architecture in Brno (VUT)
In the former workers’ colony of Divišova in Brno,on the small square, a neighborhood workshop on the creation of house signs took place. The residents were invited with a letter to gather around a table in the public space and share their stories and memories that they have had in the neighborhood. Divišova čtvrt’, called Shanghai, is a settlement in Brno, in the Brno-North district, which originated as a emergency temporary housing for the working class from the nearby Královopolska engineering factory.The aim of the workshop was to redefine the current comunity’s identity and offer a new atlas of the place through creative home signs.
The house sign, as an artwork on the building facades, historically represented a captured memory of a place, a fictional identities of the people who lived there or helped with the orientation in the city. A painting or sculpture place on the outside of a building, most often above the entrance, is closely linked to the house, represents its identity and gives the house some name.
The workshop was created in cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture in Brno, with architect Savka Marenić and curator Petra Šebová. Event was an accompanying programme of the year-long exhibition project of the Faculty of Architecture, whose dramaturgy focused on the reflection of public space in the city and the physical displacement of events outside the boundaries of the institution.The material is recycled polystyrene from a reuse centre in Prague.
Residents of the former workers' colonies were invited to the workshop by direct letters and postcards.
plan of the mapped houses
photos, copyright to ©Petra Šebová
year: 2023
place: Prague
authors: Kateřina Radakulan,Savka Marenić
sound design: Jonáš Richter, Nikola Janković, Gabriela Veselá
performers: Gabriela Veselá, Nikola Janković
collaboration: Umění pro město, GHMP photos
Photos: Libor Galia
link: https://youtu.be/6oa7s6x8-jM?feature=shared, https://www.facebook.com/umenipromesto
A performative audio walk, a staged human-beaver drama set in the north of Prague, in the specific Troja Valley. The audience was accompanied by actors who revealed the story of forgotten places and the way of coexistence between the beaver and the human using the territory cultivated by the beaver. The story explores human-animal relationships in the city.
photos, copyright to ©Libor Galia
year: 2023-2025
place: Nusle, Prague
phase: in the process of realization
year: 2021-2025
place: Strašnice, Praguephase: in the process of realization
The reconstruction of the existing family house is designed for its conversion into two separate residential units for housing of two families. A new steel extension serves as the main communal core and winter garden, containing the main entrances to both apartments and a shared area for both families.
year: 2023
location: Řeporyje, Prague phase: in the process of realization
The assignment was to create an uncomplicated reconstruction of an old family home for a three-member family, with an emphasis on the conversion of the basement into a new living space. The space for the new program in the basement was created only by demolishing the non-load bearing walls and sills of the former windows. The former window openings will be replaced with larger windows to provide more light. The floor will be insulated with some minimal thermal insulation with a proposed concrete floor that will be visually polished. The proposal seeks to offer minimal alterations to the refurbishment of the first and second floors,proposing a better practical layout for the bathroom and kitchen.
year: 2022
location: Grunta,Kolin
phase: study
collaboration: MgA. Adam Šustek, MgA. Vojtěch Tecl (sustektecl office)
The assignment was to create an uncomplicated reconstruction of a family house for a five-member family with an emphasis on visual connection to the surrounding environment, especially the pond at the front of the house. The space for new program is created only by demolishing the non-load-bearing walls and sills of the former windows. The main elements of the facade are: accentuated plinth covered in ceramic tiles, glazed luxfer openings and ornaments of semicircular form created by the reinforcing of the insulation. A plynth becomes both a terrace, a common space, a space that connects the inside and the outside of the house.
year: 2021
place: Budva, Montenegro
phase: realized
