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Mapping the Local, 2018; First step in the program was to individually select and present an image from 1968. As a result of this task, our group, which consisted of members from different countries like Nepal, Croatia, Serbia, Germany and Spain, had a collection of images from all around Europe that is related to 1968. We then analysed and explained what the image that we chose means to us and to our country. Nuria (Spain) went first and showed us a picture from Madrid, Spain, which showed the change on public transport in the 68’s in the middle of the city. This picture represented a transform in the way of driving a car in the city. After that, Max (Germany) presented an image of a dead protester in Berlin, Germany. The image showed the dead student and protester Benno Ohnesorg in the year 1967, who was shot during the student protest against Sheik Reza Pahlavi (Iran)’s visit in Germany. This incident turned out to be a starting point of a huge student protest wave in Germany. Following Max, Paola (Croatia) went next and she presented a picture which was recorded on August of 1968 in the island of Korčula. The picture was taken during summer school program, which was attended by young students from all around former Yugoslavia. In the photo we could see a group of young students sitting in a characteristic pose of a peaceful protest. On the wall behind them, there was a written sign, »COMMU- NIST YOUTH«. The sign characterized the era of Socialist republic. Sonja (Serbia) described an image she took about a year ago in Belgrade, Serbia. It was taken in Sa- vamala, the part of Belgrade which was heavily bom- barded during world war I and II. The area was kind of a neglected urban neighborhood. Sonja said, »Whenever we took a walk around the center, it would always end when we reach the Savamala. It’s kind of made me feel awkward and unpleasant. It was interesting for me to find out that back in the 1960s, it had its bad reputation and if girls were misbehaving, their mothers would warn them that if they don’t act nice, they will marry them into Savamala.« On the lower part of the picture, there were ruins of the old houses in Savamala. Now, instead, there are hotels named Belgrade Waterfront building. For her, the whole photograph represented a complete contrast between the symbolism and two moods, the events that were occurring in 1968. In the lower part of the picture, the atmosphere of the raging war, houses falling apart and dust all around, and the peaceful sky on the upper part, nice weather for change and the growth of the mankind with Apollo 8 rising to the Moon. Elena (Spain) chose a picture of a Raimon’s concert, a Spanish singer who was really controversial in the 60’s and the 70’s. In the year 1968 Spain was in a dictator- ship, that’s why the movement of the 68 was almost im- possible, the repression of the system did not allow any protest, even any private meeting, to avoid conflicts. That’s why for three consecutive years the concert of this Spanish artist, couldn’t be carried out. But finally, the 18th of May, Raimon made the concert, he is still very known in the country because of his protest music in these years, and because of that event.