The last decade saw a rapid influx of histories on architectural production and urban development in the postwar state socialist world. Researchers have documented how city-planning and mass housing programmes in individual countries helped to forge diverse and often competing projects of socialist modernity. Others expanded their scope beyond Eastern Europe and argued, within the broader geopolitical contexts of the Cold War and decolonisation, that mobilities of architectural expertise, technology, and resources mediated the expansion of the state socialist interests in the Global South. Meanwhile one crucial area remains largely under-researched: the ways of organisation and management of architectural production and labour within the socialist world – the institutional structures, hierarchies and networks, paths of interaction of architectural science, research, planning, design and construction in and between the socialist countries, as well as their relationships with power brokers.Modi of architectural production beyond or subversive to the established hierarchies, or taking place in liminal spaces of official institutional landscapes are also of particular interest.
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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
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
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
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
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
Session VI
Heritage Preservation and Destruction
Session Chair: Carola Neugebauer
9.15-9.30 Rugile Rozene
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
Session VIII
Self-management and Participation
Session Chair: Aliaksandr Shuba
13.15-13.30 Lea Nienhoff
15.00-16.00
Concluding Discussion
17.00-18.30 Keynote Lecture by Alla Vronskaya
18.30
End of Workshop
OPENING KEYNOTE Vladimir Paperny How I was a designer
14 September 2022, 6pm
Vladimir Paperny and Alexander Rappaport at a “voluntary-compulsory” subbotnik during their time at TsNIITIA. Construction site of the district committee (raykom) of the Kievsky district, at Kutuzov Prospect, Moscow, 1979.
Vladimir Paperny will talk about his time at the VNIITE (the All-Union Research Institute of Technical Aesthetic) and the TsNIITIA (Central Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture, also known as NIITIA, VNIITAG a.o.), where he was doctoral researcher (aspirant) until 1979, after graduating from the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts. His dissertation thesis, which he would not defend until 2000, was published in 1985 as Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two by Cambridge University Press to become one of the most iconic books on Soviet architecture.
Vladimir Paperny , Adjunct Professor at the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at UCLA, is the invited speaker at the Workshop.
CLOSING KEYNOTE Alla Vronskaya Towards a Gender Anthropology of Architectural Work
16 September 2022, 5pm
Mosproekt’s satirical ensemble of women-architects Reisshinka. Photo unknown. Source: bobmaystories.com
Alla Vronskaya examines gender inequality—and women-architects attempts to undermine it—at design and construction industry institutions of state socialism. She introduces the research conducted for the project Second World, Second Sex: Women-Architects under State Socialism.