EHU Laboratory of critical urbanism presents two new books Mapping Visaginas. Sources Of Urbanity In Former Mono-functional Towns and Mapping Vilnius. Transitions Of Post-Socialist Urban Spaces (Vilnius Academy of Arts Publishing House) and invites for 2016/2017 winter workshop series "Issues of Critical Cartography. Social Participation and Urban Change".

 

In this workshop series, the EHU Laboratory of Critical Urbanism summarizes and discusses its research on how USSR period infrastructural projects determine forms of collective living in 2010s Lithuania. The nuances of this determination are scrutinized in three locations. These are two districts of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius – a model of socialist modernist planning Lazdynai and a never reached frontier of socialist modernist planning Šnipiškės –, as well as the former nuclear mono-functional town of Visaginas.

 

 

The Laboratory dismantles how everyday practice and meaning-making in the three cases are today included or excluded in wider Lithuanian society, shaped by EU embedded statehood and global competition. In performing the research, critical cartography was used both as a methodology to discover, record and represent socio-spatial change, and as a tool to facilitate inhabitants’ participation in shaping the urban environment.

 

Each workshop starts with a presentation and discussion of two books published in 2016 – Mapping Visaginas. Sources Of Urbanity In Former Mono-functional Towns and Mapping Vilnius. Transitions Of Post-Socialist Urban Spaces. After the book presentations, we invite you and your colleagues to share insights of your work on related issues in different national and urban contexts in the Baltic States, Belarus, Germany, Poland, and Ukraine.

 

Workshop Details:

 

2 December 2016, Minsk, 6 pm

Citizen Participation in Urban Processes in Lithuania

Punkt

Kastryčnickaja 23а

Contact: benjamin.cope@ehu.lt

 

6 December 2016, Vilnius, 7 pm

Causalities of Urban Processes after the USSR

National Gallery of Art

Konstitucijos prospektas 22

Contact: siarhei.liubimau@ehu.lt

 

12 December 2016, Riga, 5 pm

Social Participation and Urban Change in Lithuania

DAC (Natural Scientific Academic Centre, University of Latvia)

Jelgavas iela 1

Contact: benjamin.cope@ehu.lt

 

16 December 2016, Berlin, 7 pm

Investigation Participation Visualization

ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik; Siemensstraße 27, Berlin

Contact: Miodrag Kuč, mk@zku-berlin.org

 

21 December 2016, Kyiv, 7 pm

Europeanisation Of Urban Processes In Lithuania

CANactions School for Urban Studies, Lavrska 16, corner entrance, 3rd floor Kyiv,

Contact: Miodrag Kuč, mk@zku-berlin.org

 

20 January 2017, Warszawa, 7 pm

Participative Research and Urban Trans-formations in Lithuania

Lithuanian Embassy to Poland, tbc

Aleje Ujazdowskie,

Contact: Felix Ackermann ackermann@dhi.waw.pl

 

Team: Felix Ackermann, Benjamin Cope, Miodrag Kuč, Siarhei Liubimau. Project: Participation and Urban Planning in the Baltics, Organization: EHU Laboratory of Critical Urbanism, Vilnius. Partners: Architektūros Fondas, Designteam Jawohl, Deutsch-Baltisches Hochschulkontor, Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee, Laimikis, Lazdynų seniūnija, Minsk Urban Platform, Urban Institute Riga, VDA Publishing House, Visaginas Municipality, Z/KU. Funding: German Embassy Vilnius, German Federal Foreign Office.

 

 

Contact: urbanism@ehu.lt