The Slovenian Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale Explores the Social Infrastructure of Local Cooperative Centres
Cooperative centre in Kostanjevica na Krki, 1953. Courtesy of Božidar Jakac Art Museum, Kostanjevica na Krki. Image © Lado Smrekar A central space for the community, the cooperative centre is a local multipurpose public building, serving as a venue for various economic, social and cultural activities. The typology of the cooperative centre emerged during the post-war reconstruction and modernisation process and was designed to serve the needs of the new cooperative agriculture model. In 1947, Yugoslavia launched an extensive program that saw the creation of thousands of cooperative centres ...