2016-11-24 EAD#10 Riga | European Architecture Dialogue About Difficult Built Heritage
Berlin Wall Memorial, Class-03, Photo: Christian Pieper Interdisciplinary German-Baltic Symposium on strategies of transforming existing and neglected buildings, ensembles or urban environments of the younger history. Riga, 24.-25.11.2016 Tallinn University of Technology with Baltic-German University Liaison Office Tradition, convention and memory continue through artistic translation, nevertheless and critically ‚transformed’ by the perspective of the viewer. “As if not any insight would set the frozen things in motion, thus becoming aware of the history in them.” (Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialektik. 1966). Experts of architecture, sociology, art history, communication theory, politics and urban design will discuss experiences and contemporary concepts about young or political built heritage of the 19th and 20th century as part of an interdisciplinary European Dialogue. In continuation of the first colloquium in Tallinn in May 2016, the topic will be discussed in...