RESILIENT SCHOOL IN DECLINING DEMOGRAPHIES
In the face of demographic decline, environmental degradation, real estate speculation, and seasonal emptiness, Ohrid’s central school quarter—home to several modernist educational buildings and shared public spaces— risks becoming a relic, or worse, a profit zone under threat from speculative development. This summer school invites participants to engage critically with the contested site around St. Clement of Ohrid Gymnasium and to examine how educational infrastructure can be reimagined as a resilient civic framework for multigenerational lifelong learning and urban continuity. Through fieldwork, analysis, and design, we will explore how architecture can sustain public space and adapt to long-term demographic and environmental transformation, not through new construction, but through reinvention and reusing what already exists.
