Visaginas Summer School on specificity and sources of urbanity in former mono-functional towns
European Humanities University’s (EHU) Laboratory of Critical Urbanism welcomes researches from Belarus, Lithuania, Germany and beyond at “Mapping Visaginas: International Summer School on Sources of Urbanity in Former Mono-functional Towns”.
EHU’s Laboratory of Critical Urbanism together with The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Go East program are the main hosts of a two-week course on mapping social practice in relation to the built environment of the Lithuanian formerly mono-functional town of Visaginas. The Summer School takes place in Visaginas from August 22 to September 1.
Visaginas is a showcase of the risks involved in the transition from a town reliant on the external top-down allocation of resources and work force, to a town compelled to survive in a competitive environment. Prominent EHU faculty members, among which are Benjamin Cope, Miodrag Kuč, Siarhei Liubimau, Olga Sasunkevich and Andrei Stsiapanau, as well as researches from Lithuania and Ukraine, will discuss the Visaginas’s infrastructural and industrial history and its major structural vulnerabilities. The participants of the course will scrutinize these two variables manifested in Visaginas and will present them in the form of conceptual maps. Further on they will propose future scenarios for the town in a form of soft planning interventions and community projects.
The detailed programme of the International Summer School is available here.
The Summer School will be held in the conference room in the House of Creation, Vilties g. 16, Visaginas.
Please forward your questions at urbanism @ ehu.lt.