Zaporizhia modernism and Bauhaus school: universality of phenomena. Problems of preserving modernist heritage (Zaporizhia)

International Research-to-Practice Conference "Zaporizhia modernism and Bauhaus school: universality of phenomena. Problems of preserving modernist heritage"

Venue: Palace of Culture of Metallurgists, #7 Dobrolyubova St., Zaporizhia

Dates of conference: 19–20 November, 2017

Working languages: Ukrainian, English, German, Russian

The conference goal is to draw attention of the public, Ukrainian and international experts and authorities to the problem of preserving objects of the interwar modernism in Ukraine, to prove the universality of the phenomenon of the German and Ukrainian modernism of the 1920s-1930s (with the Sixth Settlement in Zaporizhia being the case in point) and to promote the exchange of experience in the preservation and legal protection of the legacy of this period with German partners from Berlin, Germany’s federal state of Saxony-Anhalt (Dessau), and experts from other EU countries.

Conference structure:

• Panel 1: Theory and history of housing construction in the interwar modernist period
• Panel 2: Procedures and mechanisms of protecting architectural and urban objects of interwar modernism
• Panel 3: Features and technologies of restoring architectural monuments of interwar modernism

Organizers: Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Donetsk (office in Dnipro) in partnership with the NGO Urban Forms Center, Barannik contemporary art gallery and Professor Thomas Flierl (Germany).

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