CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES. MODERNISM BEYOND EAST AND WEST.

OPEN CALL

The Organizers of the conference call for contributions that critically rethink and analyze the history of European modern architecture with reference to Central and Eastern Europe.

The conference program is shaped along the following five topic areas:

TOPIC AREA 1:
Contested architectural heritage
across Central and Eastern Europe

TOPIC AREA 2:
Iron curtain(s) of the 20th century.
Modernism beyond the binary of East and West

TOPIC AREA 3:
Built narratives.
Multilayered identities of modern architecture

TOPIC AREA 4:
Shared heritage.
Points of contact and best practices

TOPIC AREA 5:
New Communities, New Buildings, New People:
the notion of the “new” in Central and Eastern European modern architecture

HOW TO SUBMIT

Abstracts of 300–500 words plus a short bio (max. 300 words)
should be sent to applyexercisingmodernity.com.

Dates and deadlines
Submission deadline: 17 September 2023
Notification of acceptance: 26 September 2023
Conference dates: 16–18 November 2023

Venue
Pilecki-Institute Berlin,
Pariser-Platz 4a, 10117 Berlin

Contact
contactexercisingmodernity.com

Organizer
Pilecki-Institut Berlin / Exercising Modernity

Cooperation
ETOM – European Triennial of Modernism
BHROX bauhaus reuse / zukunftsgeraeusche GbR (BHROX / zkg)
Ben Buschfeld (bcom)

Partner
Stiftung für Deutsch-Polnische Zusammenarbeit

More information: https://triennale-der-moderne.de/2022/conference-open-call/