From Tuesday 6 November to Saturday 1 December, the Kresija Gallery is home to an exhibition by the Architects' Society of Ljubljana entitled "Visions 7: less traffic = more city – urban planning architectural vision of a remodelled Slovenska cesta".

In partnership with the City of Ljubljana, the Architects' Society of Ljubljana (DAL) organises spatial examinations, via which it tries to consider the complex development of appropriate guidelines for individual urban environments. Towards this, through a series of projects entitled ‘Visions’, it attempts to open and shine light on certain ignored chapters regarding issues in urban management.

The purpose of this year’s campaign is a preliminary examination of the opportunities that with the modernisation of the city’s public transport would be offered by the closure of Slovenska cesta to private motor vehicles. In the context of the city’s sustainable development, it is essential to look for ways to revive urban spaces and additional programme positioning within the existing (programme compression) while at the same time raising the quality of life and sense of space. DAL’s tendency has been to acquire a broader palette of diverse solutions, whose reflections should contribute to the widest possible debate about the spaces under consideration. Individual conceptual suggestions should be a basis for subsequent spatial considerations or guidelines for the design of appropriate project tasks.

DAL invited four architectural bureaus to its urban planning architectural examinations, namely Dekleva Gregorič Architects, Bbiro – Katušič Kocbek, Sadar+Vuga Architects and Scapelab&Arhitektidobrin.
With a view to animating the broadest possible circle of experts and the lay public, the exhibition is set out in two parts. The exhibition’s first part is to run in the exhibition space at the Kresija Gallery together with the showcasing of individual architect’s solutions, while the second part will the on show subsequently ‘in situ’ in Congress Square.