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verything flows – The river, the clogged city sewage, the silky
chocolate cake glaze. The everchanging nature of our world is
what makes it, well, our world. It is in this organized chaos of at-
oms, dust particles, tram stations and vanilla frosting that we
tried to map one city – Belgrade.
First of all, why cake?
Truth be said, it just happened to be our ‘measuring device’ of choice.
Our seemingly frivolous drifts undertaken during the first two days of the
workshop took us through a myriad of ideas, words of a growing friend-
ship, construction sites and traffic nois-es. From Kalemegdan Fortress to
Main Railway Station, up and about, plunging from one conversation
topic into another, with a couple of stops just to take in some of that
crisp December air and a few feeble Sun rays. However, our last stop
was of a different kind, one that actually turned out Second, what to do
with the cake? Eat? Too obvious, and we’ve already done that.
As every responsible baker would do, we analyzed and wrote down the
recipe in a hand-made Recipe Book. Cliché. So we thought: