Damir Medved held a lecture on the work and legacy of Paul Otlet and Henry La Fontain as part of the Rijeka interdisciplinary congress Globalization 4.0.
See more on the attached video.
Tag: 27 Neighborhoods
Drenova Neighborhood Days – Culture Day
As part of the program of 27 neighborhoods of Rijeka ECOC 2020, our neighborhood divided its presentation into three units and three days from 9 to 11 October 2020.
Friday, October 9, 2020 Opening ceremony and Culture Day with a lecture and exhibition on the topic of feminism A Minority Being the Majority, presentation of the website zene.bezgranica.hr and a video on the same topic.
The program part of the evening started with a lecture by prof.dr.sc. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Rector of the University of Rijeka, who presented the factual situation and position of women in the 21st century through statistical indicators. She wondered, what could the dystopian scenario of the future bring us if current trends in gender inequality continue?
On behalf of the partner, Stephanie Manfroid from the partner organization Archives Mundaneum from Mons, Belgium, joined us through the online platform. She presented part of an exhibition of historical posters and documents on the subject of feminism. A review of the posters provides an insight into the position of women in Belgium from the early 20th century to the 1970s.
Damir Medved briefly presented our contribution to the exhibition – the website zene.bezgranica.hr. Our focus was on the current position of women, on the need to change attitudes and opportunities in society, but also on the feminism movement itself.
Opening ceremony
As part of the program of 27 neighbourhoods of Rijeka ECoC 2020, our neighborhood has divided its presentation into three units and three days from 9 to 11 October 2020.
Friday 9 October 2020 Opening ceremony and Culture Day with lecture and exhibition on the topic of feminism, presentation of the website The majority, and the majority and a video of the same name
The first day of the presentation took place in a new-normal atmosphere to which we are not accustomed but we have adapted technologically. The event was held without an audience that could only follow us through digital platforms.
The choir performed three songs for this occasion, but the performances were pre-recorded and played to the audience at the opening and online.
On behalf of the Drenova Neighborhood Vesna Lukanović She reminded us of our many years of participation in the Rijeka project ECOC 2020 which goes all the way to the program book for Rijeka's candidacy. She thanked all other stakeholders of the Rijeka 2020City project for their cooperation with an EU partner: the Mundaneum Archives from Belgium Monsa, as well as other neighborhoods, among which the partnership with the neighboring Campus, i.e. the University of Rijeka, stands out.
Representative of Rijeka 2020 Programme Manager Emina Višnić In her welcome address, she emphasized that the enthusiasm of all those involved in the Rijeka ECoC project lasted over five years, for which the Dreno Neighborhood is a good example.
On behalf of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Sonja Šišić, Head of the Department for Culture, Sport and Technical Culture praised the idea of involving the community in the programmes of 27 neighbourhoods and connecting with European cities of all other 27 EU member states.
Mayor Vojko Obersnel In a short and inspiring speech, he touched on all segments of the work of both associations and wished us a successful continuation.
A time capsule that travels through all the neighborhoods and will be disposed of in a safe place with the desire to open it in 2120, she surrendered to us Ivana Pernat on behalf of the Fužine neighbourhood.
The majority, and the majority
The program part of the evening started with a lecture by prof.dr.sc. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Rector of the University of Rijeka, who presented to us through statistical indicators the factual situation and position of women in the 21st century. She wondered what he might bring us. dystopian scenario of the future Should current gender inequality trends continue?
On behalf of the partner, she joined us through the online platform Stephanie Manfroid from a partner organisation Archives Mundaneum Belgian Mons. She presented part of the exhibition of historical posters and documents on the topic of feminism from their rich holdings. An overview of the posters provides an insight into the situation of women in Belgium from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1970s. Damir Medved briefly presented our contribution to the exhibition - website zene.bezgranica.hr. Our focus was on today's position of women, on the need to change attitudes and opportunities in society, but also the feminism movement itself.
As part of this project, the Association Without Borders recorded a video “The majority, and the majority” where we talked to fellow citizens about the situation of women, which we looked at at at the end of the programme.
Under the watchful eye of our mentor Marina from Filmaktiva, we practiced filming and making documentaries.
The eternal source of inspiration and lyrics is ours. Ivo Grohovac. This is the result.
Introduction
Grohovac about Kozala
Grohovac about the lukewarm
Grohovac about Škurinje
Grohobac about Podpinjol
Grohovac on the Son
Grohovac about Placa
Categories
the Drenov Cemetery
There are few local committees in Rijeka that have two parishes and two churches as Drenova. In fact, three churches, because the Chapel of All Saints in ancient times was the only church on the Drena in which Holy Mass was served.
Actually, there's more. Namely, the chapel on Veli Vrh, since it was renovated, occasionally serves as a place of pilgrimage, and just before the construction of today's church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, next to the old parish apartment, there was, and has long since been demolished, a chapel of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
However, if it is questionable that Drenova is the exception by the number of parishes and churches, by the number of cemeteries it is certainly in the first place!
There are currently three cemeteries in operation at Drenova. There was a fourth, and it's also about the fifth.
Let's start with this, the fifth. In Kablari there is a hamlet Patersko. According to the story of the older Drenovci, it was named after the paterians, members of the Jesuit order who came to Rijeka in 1627. In order to be able to support themselves and undertake their construction ventures, they were given the administration of a spacious Kastav estate, which they managed from 1630 to 1773. It is believed that the area of Patersky was assigned to paters who lived there, worked on the estate and there, as it is said, buried their dead members.
Engraved inscription, IHS 1698 
Sign of the Society of Jesus
On the stone frame of the entrance door of the oldest house in Patersko, the year 1698 is carved and a characteristic sign of the Society of Jesus IHS with a cross and three nails, which could be evidence that the patriarchs really lived here, and since they did not have a cemetery anywhere near at that time, it is easily possible that they buried their deceased members on the estate itself.
On the roof of the house there is a sign of the cross as another proof that the patriarchs lived in it. It is interesting that on another house in Benaši there is the same sign on the roof.
The second Drenov cemetery, in fact the first officially, no longer exists today.
Patersko 
Benashi
It was located in an area near the building where today's Drenov library is located. It was buried in 2006 at the time of the construction of the University settlement, and the remains were transferred to a joint osario in Kozala.
There is no written record of the exact date the cemetery was opened. As far as I know, Mons. It was Gabriel Bratine in 1837. On the old map from 1842, from the holdings of the State Archives of Rijeka, which they kindly copied and allowed to use for the purpose of this material, you can see a marked cemetery.
A map from 1842. 
Exact location of the cemetery
One interesting feature on the map above is the place where Gornja Drenova is marked, approximately in today's area of Brdin and eastern.
On the 1869 Austro-Hungarian map. 1887 also shows the cemetery.
Source: http://mapire.eu
Using the above link, it is possible to compare the map with the planted map of today and we can see that the position really corresponds to the mentioned place of today's Drenov library.
Since, unfortunately, we don't have a single photograph of this graveyard, I asked Alberto Mihich-Bertić, our famous amateur painter, to paint the graveyard for me the way he remembers it. I rely completely on Bertic's excellent memory, so I'm sure that the cemetery looked like this:
The remains of the cemetery are also visible on the plane footage from 1998, where, like Bertićeva Street, you can see the chapel, the last resting place of the parish priest Ivan Cvetko.
The cemetery was used until 1906, when most of the deceased were exhumed and moved to the Old Cemetery.
In 1884, 14 years after his transfer from Drenova, Ivan Cvetko, the founder of the parish of Our Lady of Carmel, was buried at that cemetery. He was a Drenov pastor from 1837 to 1870, when he was transferred. His remains were taken to the so-called Old Cemetery to the tomb of Pastor Mariottini. In 2012, the tombstone was damaged by vandalism and a new one was erected.
The mentioned Old Cemetery, the third Drenov cemetery, was built in 1903 and is still in operation today.
In the parish book of the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel we find the record of the then pastor
Isidore Gudca, who says:
In 1903, on the 15th of November, after Holy Mass in the cemetery, he was blessed by the venerable mr. Dr. Ivan Kukanić, pastor of Rijeka, accompanied by an assistant of several priests from Rijeka.
The first burial was at the new cemetery. Lucija Frančetić, 84 years old, 29.12.1903.
In 1914, Ivo Grohovac, poet, journalist and ardent fighter for the Croatian language and national identity of Rijeka, was buried at the Drenova Old Cemetery, and in 1924, Professor Fran Franković; Father of the Magisterium of Istria, first director of the Teacher Training School in Kastav, author of the first Croatian beginner and one of the founders of the Public Reading Room Drenova.
It is convenient to compare the design of the cemetery from 1902 from the holdings of the State Archives in Rijeka and the drone photograph of Raul Jereb from today.
On the page of KD Kozala you can find information about all Rijeka cemeteries, updated on 31 December 2019, about the area and the number of buried, so the incidental information that this cemetery has 5560 m2 and that the number of buried 1169.
Gornja Drenova, as we know, in 1924, the border was left without a church, a school and even a cemetery. Ivo Jardas wrote: Podbregon cimitera nimaju, but the dead carry to bury your St. John's womb. Matthew. Today's cemetery on Gornja Drenova, on Orešje, was built in 1940. It is also the final resting place for the Hlača brothers, Ružica Mihić and many NOB fighters, as well as William Štefan, a chronicler of Dreno's customs and history. A little statistic: surface 1699 m2, number of buried 497.
Daina Glavočić writes about the Gornja Drenova cemetery in the monograph of the Kozala Communal Society:
Like most suburban cemeteries, the Gornja Drenova cemetery is located in a valley, a shallow sinkhole, in a karst area, surrounded by a predominantly deciduous forest and a cypress plantation. Almost isolated, in isolation, the Cemetery is surrounded by a low wall with an entrance with an iron gate, and over them is a portal flat beam bearing the inscription - Eternal Rest, and the year of the arrangement of the cemetery in 1940, although the first burial was registered in 1905. (Marija Perušić). To the right of the entrance is a small simple cottage with a morgue.
The tombs are located on two levels. The central burial field is at a lower level, at the bottom of the sinkhole. The burials were carried out in neat transverse horizontal series of simple bedding graves, and with one series of small, white children's graves. Approximately in the middle of this field is a somewhat wider alley bordered by a cypress plantation. It connects two important points of the boundary line of graves at an elevated level, which are located along the fence wall of the perimeter of the cemetery. At the right end of the alley is the central cemetery stone cross, and on the left is a larger, simple cubic stone monument to the fighters fallen at the very end of World War II in the struggles for the unification of Rijeka with Istria in 1945.
In accordance with the time and social circumstances in which this cemetery was founded, it does not have artistically valuable monuments because during the post-war reconstruction there was no possibility for special artistic design. Only interventions on the renovation of the older tombs and their enclosure with ubiquitous black or red marble slabs are visible.
This cemetery is intended for a smaller local community, only in the city was built without the morgue and is far from a settlement with which it is not connected by urban transport.
On average, only four burials are carried out here per year, so the interest of citizens is turned the new Central City Cemetery Drenova.
Upper Drenova Cemetery, today
Entrance to the cemetery with carved year of construction 1940. 
Photo from 1940 
Mr. Drenova's Cemetery today
Finally, the fifth Drenov cemetery, the Central City Cemetery Drenova opened in 1988, is the largest cemetery in the city of Rijeka with as much as 412,000 m2. The number of buried on 31.12.2019 was -13.428.
It is located in the wider area of Obrš, which was once dominated by the All Saints Chapel, built in 1575, which still serves for the last farewell of the deceased.
The cemetery is dominated by a central building with a hall for the funeral of the deceased, with a modern architectural appearance, opposite the old chapel with which it forms an interesting harmony.
Central facility 
The Central Cross
The cemetery also houses the Alley of Defenders on which the fallen defenders of the Homeland War rest.
Monument to Organ Donors 
Common maesar with sights for the deceased
the Alley of Defenders
Drunken Recipes 2 - Drenovska rolada
When we cooked Drenjule marmalade, we can get on with making the Dren's reel. Like marmalade and rolls, it is conscious and healthy so it does not contain gluten. Take a look at what Vesna and Željko recorded this time.
Are you interested in recipes with drenching? Let's start with marmalade.
Vesna and Željko Lukanović took the message seriously #Stay home, but they weren't idle. They made this short video. They showed us a recipe for jam from the Lukanović family treasury. As part of the project Gyroscope We had the opportunity to learn the basics of recording such short videos. As for the nap, We have listened to it many times. its nutritional value and the properties of the superfruit.
4 March 2020 in the neighborhood of the University Campus on the occasion of their Festival, and in cooperation with the Drenova neighbourhood, a quiz was held “In search of the super fruit of our region - forgotten drainage”.
Mixed marmalades called “Drenjula i društvo” are specially prepared as a reward for the winners of the quiz.
Thus continued the cooperation between the Department of Biotechnology of the University of Rijeka and the Dren Association, which has proven in the previous scientific research that it drained SUPER FRUIT.
Conversations about old widows
“Neighborhood Kastav” organized on 15 February the meeting of Neighborhoods, ECoC Rijeka 2020 through the “Living Room” program in the romantic space of Idičina peknjica.”
Numerous customs connect us with common "root", speech and commemorations, but we still differ in this, it is OUR REAL FOUNDATION", the hosts said.
The transfer of knowledge about individual užanci and the almost forgotten details of these užanci to the given topics will be recorded by audio-video recording, based on the presentation of the representatives of the neighborhoods.
An "audio-video dictionary" will be created, which will be the basis for the processes of preserving the Chakavian language and customs of our region, the educational process and possible scientific papers and research.
This document will be a permanent trace of the richness of the heritage of our region- Chakavian Speech and Traditions.
“Neighborhood Drenova” was represented by Silvana Šuperina and Dinko Mavrinac, who have been active for years in preserving a tradition that is slowly disappearing.
They spoke at the Drenovska Čakavica about the former burgundy customs and what has been preserved from the customs, above all on Gornja Drenova.
Night of Museums for the Eighth Time Held at the Drenove Heritage Museum
The screening of the film, the exhibition and the lecture held yesterday at the Drenove Heritage Museum dealt with our ongoing projects : Mundaneum (archives from Belgian Mons), Topotek (.....) and ČAI – Chakavian Artificial Intelligence.
We started with an interesting film about the life of Paul Otlet – a visionary established by Mundaneum.
Interacting with the audience is our favorite part of the evening. Many visitors, including our youngest fellow citizens, actively participate and ask questions about the topics we deal with. We are pleased that the merging of "old" topics and new technologies is resonating among young people. Benedict Perak nicely explained why the Topoteka project is important in the context of preserving the memory of ordinary citizens, and promoting Citizen Science initiatives.
Damir Medved briefly explained where we are currently with our ČAI project, and we had the opportunity to talk to them ⁇
And among the more "mature" part of the visitors, there was an interest in collaborating in the workshops that we will organise during February. The first topic of the workshop will deal with the preservation of family and traditional memories (photos, documents and memories) through the project Topoteka. The second topic is the continuation of "cooperation" with our ČAI.
About everything soon!
ČAI presented at Data Science Day in Bačva Club in Rijeka.
At the meeting “Winning the Data Science Day“ held on 29 January 2020 in Barrels, we spent the evening in a positive atmosphere, in the company of young students and professionals.
The event is well organized by Data Science Croatia (DSC) and iOLAP.
Dana Science Croatia is an association that organizes gatherings and lectures promoting information science.
iOLAP is an IT company from the USA that has its branch office in Rijeka, and is a member of the DSC and was the sponsor of yesterday's meeting.
The topics of this meeting were predicting customer behavior and building a Chatbot system.
At the beginning, Sašo Petrovčić briefly presented the "eStudent Lumen Dana Science" competition, hitherto known as "Mozgalo".
Then Nino Požar, a member of last year's winning team "BiotechRi", presented us their solution and work on it. Although he graduated from the Department of Biotechnology of the University of Rijeka, Nino showed enviable IT and programming knowledge. The task that the team had was in the field of banking business, and even more amazing is the breadth of access and knowledge that they applied in their solution.
Finally, Damir Medved presented the previous work on our project ČAI, Chakavian artificial intelligence. He presented the methodology of the work, as well as the results so far, and explained what is ahead in the work on this project.
There was a great interest in this project, and the attendees asked questions and praised the idea as well as the solution itself.
ČAI (Chakavian Artificial Intelligence) is a technological demonstrator of the use of artificial intelligence to preserve endangered languages and dialects.
We are implementing the project in cooperation with the Kastav neighbourhood through the 27 neighbourhoods of Rijeka ECoC 2020.
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