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Aleksandra Stupar (Serbia)
Aleksandra Stupar has graduated (1997) and obtained her master (2001) and PhD degree (2005) at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture. She has presented her papers at numerous international conferences and participated in several national and international research projects and workshops. She is currently engaged in the project Cities and Transnational Interaction. The Cultural Contacts between West and East European Urban Centers during and beyond the Cold War (2010-2013) conducted by the University of Tampere and financed by the Academy of Finland. During 2005-2006 she was a researcher in the project South-East European Network for Science and Technology Studies: STS Contributions to the Governance of Socio-technical Change, funded by the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office (Zentrum für Soziale Innovation). She has also participated in eight research projects of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.
Aleksandra Stupar has been an invited/guest researcher at IAS-STS (Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society) in Graz, Austria (2007, 2011), where she was awarded the Мanfred Heindler grant (2011) for her project proposal. She was a guest researcher at the University of Tampere, Finland (School of Humanities and Social Sciences – 2010, 2011, 2012), and an invited lecturer/speaker at the Faculty of Architecture Valle Giulia, University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy (2006, 2008, 2009).
Aleksandra Stupar has published articles and chapters in national and international journals and books, focusing on the problems of contemporary cities and their identity. She is the author of the award-winning book The City of Globalization – Challenges, Transformations, Symbols (2009) and the winner of the Gerd Albers Award 2008, given by ISOCARP (International Society of City and Regional Planners), for the best published article on urbanism. In 2012 she was a guest-editor of a thematic issue of the Serbian Architectural Journal (SAJ) entitled City vs. Innovation.
