Bauhaus-Universität Weimar: Architecture at Work

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Registration for the workshop Architecture at Work – Institutional Landscapes of State Socialist Design and Construction from 14-16 September 2022 at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has now closed. Details for online and in person participation will be sent out via email in the week before the event.

Programme

DAY 1:	Wednesday 14 September 2022
17.00-17.15	Registration
17.15-17.45	Welcome and Introduction
18.00-19.30	Keynote Lecture by Vladimir Paperny "How I was a Designer". The Central Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture
20.30	Dinner, Venue TBA

DAY 2:	Thursday 15 September 2022
09.00-11.00	Morning Sessions
Session I Knowledge Exchanges Session Chair: Ksenia Litvinenko	09.15-09.30 Christina E. Crawford & Claire Zimmerman Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: Exploring the Prehistory of Socialist Architectural Exchange 09.30-09.45 Yichi Zhang Forming the Lingnan Architectural School: Adopting German Modernism in Socialist China. 09.45-10:00 Yan Geng “Silk Curtain” Mapping the Transcultural Tendencies in Chinese Socialist Architecture 10:00-10:15 Michael Brinley Soviet Icons: Materiality, Expert Knowledge, and the Social Pact in Soviet City Planning in the 1960s-70s. 10:15-11.15 Q&A and Discussion
Session II Spaces of Interaction Session Chair: Kirsten Angermann	09.15-09.30 Aliaksandr Shuba The Working Group “History of Town Planning and Constructing in Historical Cities” and the Alfred Toepfer Foundation with its Herder Prize as the Triggers of Architectural Contacts between the West and East 09.30-09.45 Anna Kats Design Professionals Across Three Worlds: Union Internationale des Architectes and Socialist Architects’ Unions, 1948‐1981 09.30-09.45 Ye Liu The Tropical Odyssey: Chinese Socialist Building System in Tension 10:00-10:15 Boris Chukhovich Made-in-Moscow-National-Style: How institutional struggles shaped the "oriental modernism" of Tashkent in the 1960s and 1980s 10:15-11.15 Q&A and Discussion
11.15-13.00	Lunch Break
13.00-15.00	Afternoon Sessions
Session III Institutional Histories Session Chair: Aliaksandr Shuba	13:00-13:15 Stefanie Brünenberg & Sophie Stackmann Processes of work and negotiation within and outside of worker collectives in the GDR 13.15-13.30 Nini Palavani Building of the former Ministry of Automobile Roads of Georgia, 1975. Currently Bank of Georgia Head Office 13.30-13.45 Ljudmila Djukic Institutional Fabric of Socialist Urban Planning and Construction in Serbia and Former Yugoslavia 13.45-14.00 Lucia Mlynčeková Evolution and transformation of state projection and construction companies 14.00-15.00 Q&A and Discussion
Session IV Experiment and Innovation Session Chair: Ksenia Litvinenko	13.15-13.30 Nikolai Erofeev Manufacturing khrushchevki: reconstructing experimental design practices 13.15-13.30 Frida Pashako Manifesto of Albanian socialist architecture: a building and an apartment 13.30-13.45 Jannik Noeske From Plans to Networks? Information Technology in GDR Urban Planning 13.45-14.00 Daria Bocharnikova Institutions of Socialist Modern: Organizing Housing Research and Experimental Design in the Soviet Union 14.00-15.00 Q&A and Discussion
16.00	Meet-up at Weimar Hbf Railway station
16.00-16.30	Train to Erfurt
16.30-19.30	Walking Tour with Mark Escherich Building Socialist Friendship: Socialist Exchange Projects in the Community Centre Rieth; Community Centre Berliner Platz; Community Centre Moskauer Platz
20.00	Return to Weimar

DAY 3:	Friday 16 September 2022
09.00-11.00	Morning Sessions
Session V DIY and Cooperatives Session Chair: Jenny Price	9.15-9.30 Jérôme Bazin Self-made buildings in the socialist institutional landscape 9.30-9.45 Matas Šiupšinskas Substitute for a summer house. Collective garden house architecture in Soviet Lithuania 9.45-10.00 Marija Drėmaite Co-operative Housing as a Field of Semi-private Architectural Experimentation in Lithuania, 1960s–1980s 10.00-10.15 Antje Kirsch The cooperative "Kunst am Bau" and the synthesis of architecture and visual art 10.15-11.15 Q&A and Discussion
Session VI Heritage Preservation and Destruction Session Chair: Carola Neugebauer	9.15-9.30 Rugile Rozene To Demolish in Order to Construct. Soviet Urban Plans and Their Implementation in Historic Settlements 9.30-9.45 Helka Dzsacsovszki The Third ICOMOS General Assembly in Budapest 9.45-10.00 Liliana Iuga Claiming a Place for Heritage: Institutional (Re-) Organizations of the Department for Historic Monuments in Socialist Romania 10.00-10.15 Nadezhda Beliakova & Vera Kliueva Grassroots initiatives for the preservation of cultural heritage in the late USSR: a case of student restoration teams 10.15-11.15 Q&A and Discussion
11.15-13.00	Lunch Break
13.00-15.00	Afternoon Sessions
Session VII Centres and Peripheries Session Chair: Oxana Gourinovitch	13.15-13.30 Zayra Badillo Castro The Uzbek Ideological Project of the 1960s and the Tashkent Institute of Experimental Design 13.30-13.45 Zhenya Molar Experimental Ceramic Laboratory of Nina Fedorova: Rethinking Ukrainian Folk Art for Soviet Architecture 13.45-14.00 Benjamin Eckel The Path of a female Architect in the GDR - In Conversation with Sigrid Schaller 14.00-15.00 Q&A and Discussion
Session VIII Self-management and Participation Session Chair: Aliaksandr Shuba	13.15-13.30 Lea Nienhoff Welding oil tanks, building the future pulse of the city: A short history of the Workers' politics in constructing Schwedt/Oder 13.15-13.30 Tamara Bjažić Klarin Constructing self-managing socialism – the case of the Zagreb based company „Tempo“ 13.30-13.45 Constanze Kummer Variables Wohnen – Ein partizipativer Planungsansatz im industriellen Wohnungsbau der DDR 13.45-14.45 Q&A and Discussion
15.00-16.00	Concluding Discussion
17.00-18.30	Keynote Lecture by Alla Vronskaya Architectural Design Industry under State Socialism: A Gender Perspective
18.30	End of Workshop