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Sykhiv: Spaces, Memories, Practices
http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/summerschools/sykhiv-school/

Center for Urban History invites applications for the summer school
"Sykhiv: Spaces, Memories, Practices".

Dates: August 13-27, 2017
Venue: Center for Urban History. Lviv, Ukraine
Deadline for applications: May 1, 2017

Sykhiv is the biggest housing estate of Lviv, initially planned and built
through the 1970s and 1980s. Composed of 12 microrayons, it was intended
to become a home for 120 thousand workers of the south-eastern industrial
hub of the city. The construction of residential buildings, most of which
were of the same series, was completed according to original plans, but
many public facility and infrastructural projects remained unfinished or
unimplemented because of the economic crisis that began in late 1980’s.
The systemic changes that came with the breakdown of the Soviet Union and
the independence of Ukraine, resulted in multiple urban transformations on
the different levels including that of the district. Not only Sykhiv was
facing many challenges, but experiences new developments, adding new
structures, functions, and meanings, and by now is considered as one of
the most active districts of Lviv.

The school will explore the situations, changes, and challenges of mass
housing districts through a combination of architectural, anthropological,
sociological and historical research tools that will allow for more
comprehensive and multifaceted understandings of mass housing urbanity.
Highlighting different types of links between symbolic, material and human
levels of once planned spaces is important for development of vectors of
transformation and visions of future of such urban areas.

Structure of the School:

The school program is designed as a set of two short courses, workshops
and field-work in three theme-based studios. Participants of the school
will be offered courses by:

Prof. Florian Urban (Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of
Art): "The Functionalist Сity and Its Critics"

The seminar will on the one hand focus on the theoretical background of
functionalist mass housing estates, which can be found in
early-twentieth-century urban theory (Ebenezer Howard, Le Corbusier,
Clarence Perry). It will then look at the most influential criticism of
this urban form, which has been formulated from the 1960s onwards (Jane
Jacobs, Colin Rowe, Rob Krier, Jan Gehl) and eventually analyse recent
examples of modification, renovation, and retrofitting of functionalist
mass housing estates in different European countries.

Dr. Daria Bocharnikova (KU Leuven / Center for Fine Arts BOZAR): "A
History of the Socialist City: 5 Blueprints for Modernity from the Second
World"

This course is a brief introduction into the history of envisioning and
building socialist city across the Second World, from early Soviet
experiments and mass construction campaigns in post-war Eastern Europe to
the afterlives of socialist infrastructures after 1989/1991. In
particular, students will investigate how the task of building a modern
socialist city was interpreted differently in various national and
regional contexts across the Second World and how it changed over time.

Workshops will focus on methods of urban research and revitalization of
the planned areas.

Participants will be asked to work on their projects within the three
theme-based studios under the tutorial of architect Nataliya Mysak
("Spaces" studio), historian Dr. Iryna Sklokina ("Memories" studio) and
anthropologist Dr. Svitlana Odynets ("Practices" studio).

The "Spaces" studio aims at the reinterpretation of the Sykhiv district
morphology and its structure through spatial analysis as well as analysis
of experiences and ideas of users. While part of the functional links,
which were set as principles for districts design, were not effective in
the changing contexts, alternative links and spaces have been emerging in
the district along with construction of new architectural and
infrastructural objects. During the studio, students will focus on the
ways how space is produced in the district (considering its both spatial
and symbolic layers) and develop a narrative on it.

The "Memories" studio is going to deal with the imaginations and
expectations of the dwellers before moving to Sykhiv and after it. The
main question is how the previous experiences of inhabitants were used and
rethought in order to adapt to Sykhiv, to appropriate it, and to make it
socially meaningful place. Students will also pay attention to broader
issue of what are the symbolic resources (related to "history" or not)
that are used by dwellers from different groups for their empowerment,
struggling for change, and imagining the future of the district.

The "Practices" studio will analyze the experiences of inhabitants related
to the place and functions of the Sykhiv area on the symbolic map of Lviv.
The migration of people in Sykhiv will also be an important focus for the
studio, including "old" migrations from nearby villages to Sykhiv in
1980s, the "new" internal migrations from Sykhiv to other city districts
after partial deindustrialization as well as current transnational
migrations to EU countries after the 1990s. Students will also look into
the different types of social and material capitals that are circulating
in these migrations, and the new practices in everyday life.

Final presentation of the results of the school will be a part of the
conference "The Ins and Outs of Socialism: Visions and Experiences of
Urban Change in the Second World" (Lviv, August 25-27, 2017). The school
participants will also have to prepare the final essays to be published in
the aftermath of the school.

Working language is English.

Eligibility criteria:

The summer school is open for MA students, postgraduates and junior
researchers in the fields of anthropology, architecture, geography,
history, urban planning, sociology, and other disciplines in social
sciences and humanities. The application should include:

Brief CV (up to two pages)
Motivation letter (up to 500 words, describing your decision to apply)
Essay to the topic "Into the Future of Mass Housing Estates" (up to 500
words)
All documents should be submitted in English.

Send your applications to: summerschool at lvivcenter.org before May 1, 2017.
Write the "Sykhiv Summer School" in the subject of the letter. Applicants
have to indicate the name of the studio they wish to work with. The jury
will be considering the applications and select the participants after May
15, 2017.

Participation in the school is free of charge. Organizers will partially
cover travel expenses (for participants from beyond Ukraine, those shall
not exceed EUR 200), accommodation and catering for the participants.

For more details feel free to contact the program coordinator Dr. Natalia
Otrishchenko at n.otrishchenko at lvivcenter.org

The school is organized by the Center for Urban History with the support
of the Heinrich Böll Foundation (Office in Ukraine).

Information about previous schools: Novy Lviv (2015), Slavutych (2016).


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