Planet Krvavica. Surveying Local Futures Through Practices of Imperfect Care

This book is called Planet Krvavica because it gathers together people, explorers, and things that have entered the same orbit, around the same landing site of a unique spatial object and because it really feels like amidst all our current planetary challenges as if we really have landed on another kind of world, left stranded in strange terrain filled with dilapidating structures of various origins, facing an uncertain future. We don’t really know what the best strategy for survival or even going forward is, but as we keep surveying the site and interacting with the localities we encounter and with the histories we learn, it feels like we are accomplishing something, building relations—and hopefully, moving things towards new planetary solidarities.

The book looks into a three-year collective engagement with the contested modernist site of the former Children’s Health Resort in Krvavica, Croatia. It is a group exploration of uneven legacies, spatial neglect, and fragile gestures of care intersecting with broader planetary urgencies.

Planet Krvavica suggests that alternative futures do not lie elsewhere, but emerge from these local entanglements and the imperfect, often messy, practices of repair.