The project started with a spontaneous review of the catalogue of street equipment on the website of the City of Ljubljana. This document provides an insight into a thoughtful system of street equipment created in different designs and materials for different parts of the city.

I decided to place certain elements of street equipment created for the city centre in the suburbs and so create small suburban islands of standards that otherwise apply to the city centre. I wanted to establish new relationships between space markers and their contexts. With a gesture of alienation, I tried to highlight the issues of economic segregation in the modern gentrified city. The Decentralization project questions the organization of public spaces in the city center and in the suburbs; discuss their relationship and point to a complex set of socio-economic factors that shape the dynamics of the urban landscape. The series consists of three types of interventions.

In the simplest cases, it involves physical relocation of urban furniture from the city center to the neighborhoods. Four different types of furniture were moved: one bench, one trash can, one streetlamp and three chain stools. Furniture replaced dilapidated DIY pieces. I kept the old objects.

The project continued with the placement of fragments of architecture from baroque blocks onto socialist blocks. I made custom copies of stucco windows of two baroque buildings from the city center and installed them on socialist blocks in the outskirts of the city. The condition was that the windows were those of apartments and not commercial or institutional spaces.

I completed the series by copying floor samples from cobblestones that can be seen in the center of Ljubljana. I chose three different locations based on the composition and type of stone and marked them with a 1-cm-deep cut in the ground. Based on the marked square meters, I made replicas of authentic cobblestones and built them in the same compositions in non-central neighborhoods.