Summer Lecture Series "Housing in Question"

Graduate School of Urbanism is organising summer lecture series "Housing in Question' in partnership with Dekabristen e.V. and Kompetenzzentrum Großsiedlungen e.V in the frames of ACT UP project.

Mass housing production of early 1950 — late 1970 has incontrovertibly changed cities in Europe, offering not only a new urban and housing typology but a completely new life style. Since then we are asking questions:

What kind of processes of different natures are happening in microdistricts all around Europe and Russia?
What challenges their dwellers are being put face-to-face with?
What kind of instruments do scholars and practitioners need to study modernity of modernist mass housing?
Can we as academics and planners find new perspectives on the edge of disciplines and socio-economic context?

In order to answer these questions, Graduate School of Urbanism in partnership with German organisation Dekabristen e.V. and Kompetenzzentrum Großsiedlungen e.V. is setting a summer cycle of lectures 'Housing in Question'. Every Wednesday, from July, 15th to September, 2nd 2020 we will meet with researchers and practitioners from various fields and disciplines on webinar.ru platform.

Full Programme

July, 15th — 19:00 CET
"Politics and the Making of Heritage: Discourses on Large Modernist Housing Estates"

Speaker: Dr. Daniela Zupan
July, 22nd — 18:00 CET
"The Strategies for Multi-Story Periphery"

Speaker: Maria Melnikova
July, 29th — 18:00 CET
"Contentious Housing and Citizenship: How Neighborhood Protests Challenge Urban Governance"

Speaker: Dr. Christian Frölich

August, 5th — 18:00 CET
"Towards Ordinary Quarters: The Development of Housing Estates in Prague after Transformation"

Speaker: Dr. Martin Ouředníček
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August, 12th — 18:00 CET
"Ambition and Reality': Participation Processes in the Context of Developing Large Housing Estates"

Speaker: Clemens Klikar
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August, 19th — 18:00 CET
"Large Housing Estates in European Cities"

Speaker: Dr. Florian Urban
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August, 26th — 18:00 CET
"The Development of Large Housing Estates in Germany: Projects from 1990s to the Present"

Speaker: Dr. Bernd Hunger
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September, 2nd — 18:00 CET
"Concrete Suburbia: Suburban Housing Estates and Socio-spatial Differentiation in Finland" — the topic is being specified

Speaker: Dr. Mats Stjernberg
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Summer lecture series is realised in the frames of the ACT UP Project organised by Dekabristen e.V. and supported by German Foreign Office.

Photographs:
Dezidor, Czechia. "Jižní Město" (Prague, Czechia)
Alexander Rentsch, Germany. "HSH #XX" ( Berlin Lichtenberg, Germany)