Architecture at Work

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.
DAY 1: | Wednesday 14 September 2022 |
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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 |
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09.00-11.00 | Morning Sessions |
Session I Knowledge Exchanges Session Chair: Ksenia Litvinenko | 09.15-09.30 Christina E. Crawford & Claire Zimmerman 10:00-10:15 Michael Brinley |
Session II Spaces of Interaction Session Chair: Kirsten Angermann | 09.15-09.30 Aliaksandr Shuba 10:00-10:15 Boris Chukhovich |
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 13.15-13.30 Nini Palavani |
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 |
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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 |
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