THURSDAY, 23 February 2017
Greetings (14:30-14:40)
Martin Sabrow
Introduction (14:40-15:00)
Ana Kladnik and Andreas Ludwig
Panel 1 (15:00-17:00): Historical Recognition of New Towns in Post-War Europe
Chair: Christoph Bernhardt (Erkner)
Rosemary Wakeman (New York): Ideal Cities and the Origins of the New Town Movement
Loic Vadelorge (Paris): Building and Conserving the French New Towns: From the Uses of Past to the Management of Heritages (1970-2010)
Eszter Gantner (Marburg): Heritagezation of New Towns after 1989 in East Central Europe
17:00-17:30 Coffee break
Panel 2 (17:30-19:00): Mass Housing as Erinnerungsort
Chair: Thomas Lindenberger (Potsdam)
Miles Glendinning (Edinburgh): European Mass Housing in its Global Context
Florian Urban (Glasgow): ‘The Slab’ in East Germany - an Ambivalent Heritage
19:30 Dinner
FRIDAY, 24 February 2017
Panel 3 (9:00–11:00): New Towns as Cultural / National / World Heritage
Chair: Thomas Schaarschmidt (Potsdam)
Marina Epstein-Pliouchtch (Haifa): "White City" Myth of Tel-Aviv, Canonization of the Modernist Heritage
Shane Downer (Milton Keynes): From New Town to International City – Culture Led Development in the Growth of Milton Keynes
Kaja Širok (Ljubljana): Rise and Shine: The Construction of the City of Nova Gorica and its Present-Day Social Legacy
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
Panel 4 (11:30-13:00): Public Representation of European Post-War New Towns
Chair: Albrecht Wiesener (Cottbus-Senftenberg)
Michał Wiśniewski and Helena Postawka-Lech (Krakow): The Architecture of Nowa Huta
Michelle Provoost (Rotterdam): Coming of Age: Reinventing New Towns in the Rotterdam and Amsterdam region
13:00 Lunch
Round Table / Final Discussion (14:30 – 16:00): Characteristics of European Post-War New Towns as Places of Historical Authenticity
Moderators: Ana Kladnik and Andreas Ludwig
Discussants: Wolfgang Kil, Michelle Provoost, Achim Saupe and Rosemary Wakeman
This workshop has been kindly supported by
the Leibniz Research Alliance Historical Authenticity.
The workshop is open to the public.
Due to limited seats, please register via kladnik@zzf-potsdam.de
until 17 February 2017. There is no registration fee.