Young Croatian experts and engineers with good ideas
They are young Croatian experts and engineers with good ideas. They deal with programming, applications and new technologies, and their playground is the Internet. Most of them grew up in mathematics gymnasiums and at FER (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb), and they gathered creative
artists and marketing experts around them. They do not pull investors by the sleeve, they are not interested in the economic situation, and they complete
projects thanks to enthusiasm and hard work, not government incentives. The work model is as follows: a small company full of creative people, the means of
work is a computer and own know-how, and only then the design of projects and their presentation at various international competitions where they are sold to
foreign investors and global players.
Tomislav - IT specialist and resident of Sesvete neighbourhood
Tomislav Pokrajcic belongs to the described group. Tomislav grew up in Sesvete, graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University
of Zagreb (FER) and today lives in Sesvete with his family as well. He founded the company that develops software solutions in 2007, and most of the income is
reinvested in the development of its own products. Over the past years, they have offered jobs in Europe, China and the Middle East. Before founding his own
company, Tomislav worked as an engineer in a company dealing with automated traffic management systems in cities. It was, he says, an interesting job, but
after a few years he wanted a new challenge. For months, he followed job ads in Croatia, but he didn't find anything intriguing enough. “In the end, i decided to start my own company. I checked out the tenant apartment and moved to my parents' house to reduce costs, partitioned off a few square meters of space in my father's company with an improvised wall and acquired basic equipment for work. I started attending professional conferences and soon arranged my first jobs“ - recalls Tomislav. His private company “Binaria” today has headquarters located in Sesvete neighborhood. In addition to that location, the company also uses the space of the Technology Park Zagreb.
The story of the projects started with the wedding. (Application: Weddingella, Company: Binaria, Sesvete, Team leader: Tomislav Pokrajčić). Tomislav
never dreamed of it. Working on the job of organizing a wedding was unimaginable for him as a FER member. Until he had to organize his own wedding.
“For me, that job was just the beginning of my new business life'. As the name of the application suggests, Weddingella is a solution that makes the process of
wedding organization easier for newlyweds, and is used via an internet browser and tablet and smartphone applications.Tomislav was the head / the manager of the technical production of the project "Untitled (Croatian Pavilion) 2022" Tomo Savić-Gecan at
the Venice Biennale - 59th International Exhibition of Visual Arts.
what the archive is about
The Living Archive explores the potential of (post)industrial heritage to transform production in our cities. We collect stories with participatory heritage methods. The nodes for the local collection efforts are Fab City Hubs (FCH). The collection has been carefully assembled by FCH teams who have been learning about, co-creating and applying participatory heritage-making approaches, emotion networking methodology, oral history principles and creative perspective-taking. Select tags and categories to filter stories in the archive below. Explore their connections in the network graph.
