Vranjina – The island that was not meant to be Living Archive

Abstract

This research positions Vranjina — The Island That Wasn’t Meant to Be — as a living archive where memory, landscape, and spatial practices converge. Drawing on Guy Debord’s dérive, it explores drifting as both method and metaphor: at once spontaneous and strategic, affective and intentional. Embedded within the rural Anthropocene, Vranjina reveals spatial strategies born not of design, but of survival, remembrance, and dramaturgy. Autoethnographic timelines weave personal memory with collective history, exposing how generational practices shape adaptation, continuity, and resilience. The research extends mapping into moving image, adopting Sarah Pink’s “walking with video” approach to foreground relational, situated knowledge production. Here, the camera becomes an extension of the senses, capturing the flux of lived experience — the steps, gestures, sounds, and rhythms that bind space into narrative.