Petra is a lawyer who has her own law office located in Trnje, Zagreb. She grew up in Mlinovi, Zagreb North, but moved to Sesvete during her 3rd grade of elementary school. Petra completed her education in Sesvete, including high school and law school in Zagreb. Petra’s parents are retired, her father was a doctor at the Sesvete Health Center, and her mother was a secretary at the Sesvete Gymnasium. Petra lives in Gajišće, in the part of Sesvete with family houses, near the Sava Sports Center.
When asked about the identity of Sesvete, Petra believes that in the past it was Sljeme and Badel, but today that question is a little more difficult to answer concretely. Petra also thinks that Sesvete was left quite "beheaded" by the collapse of industry and turned into a kind of "dormitory" on the edge of the city. When asked if living in Sesvete is better now or in the past, Petra believes that life is better today due to the progress of science and technology in the material sense.
Petra chose Sesvete for housing due to the comfort of life at home compared to the time spent traveling to work, the help of her parents in looking after the children, and the ability for her children to spend as much time as possible outside. When asked about what is missing in Sesvete today, Petra believes that there should be more companies and schools that would make it possible for people not to have to go to the city for work/children to go to school. Petra also thinks that a center of Sesvet where people could walk without cars constantly rushing by them, where they could hang out in peace, drink coffee or eat something is missing.
Petra believes that the premises of the former Sljeme factory are a great potential for the development of both Sesvet and Zagreb in general. She thinks that additional facilities such as promenades, parks, and a cultural center could be built to attract people to that area and to achieve a better connection between Sesvet itself and Jelkovac through the zone.
When asked about which sectors should be developed in
Sesvete, Petra believes that all activities should be developed, especially those with a "future" and modern technologies. She also believes that the service sector should be developed. In terms of her vision for the development of Sesvete, Petra hopes for a better traffic connection with the city, the formation of a pedestrian zone in the very center, and landscaped areas where Sljeme and Badel were, with promenades along the stream, parks, and more. She believes that Sesvete could be one of the settlements with a "bright" future due to its young population.
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.
