Participation fee
Questions regarding the Summer School are to be sent to urbanism@ehu.lt
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Post-Nuclear Urbanism | Summer School Visaginas and Vilnius
This Summer School develops an analytical and
applied perspective on the urban environment as a set of infrastructures
to generate, maintain and spread knowledge about the human and natural
worlds. It is in this way that the school responds to the
‘infrastructural turn’ in urbanism, by investigating the development of
the digital layer in addition to already existing materialities of
public and private lives in cities. This new factor of the digital layer
has provoked an important broad reflection regarding how cities’
hardware is negotiated economically and socially among its developers
and users on how its implementation is dependent on political cultures,
and on how technological innovations encounter institutional traditions.
Seeing
this development through the perspective of knowledge infrastructures
(Edwards 2010) poses a big question about how user-centered modes to
digitally obtain and generate information – from not moderated access to
educational archives and individualized news feeds to self-tracking
applications and the graded profiles of an increasingly unbundled
workforce – can be married with built environments established for the
centralized mass spread of information and a stabilized, controlled
worldview.
For whom?
The school is open for early career stage practitioners; for advanced BA and MA, as well as for PhD students of architecture, urban design, urban sociology, science and technology studies, geography, history, cultural studies, art and multimedia. Prospective participant is basically anyone who is interested to work in a multidisciplinary team in order to re-explore and re-invent the topics of city, technology and knowledge infrastructures with a critical attitude.
Summer School provides
The school is open for early career stage practitioners; for advanced BA and MA, as well as for PhD students of architecture, urban design, urban sociology, science and technology studies, geography, history, cultural studies, art and multimedia. Prospective participant is basically anyone who is interested to work in a multidisciplinary team in order to re-explore and re-invent the topics of city, technology and knowledge infrastructures with a critical attitude.
Summer School provides
- Work in medium-sized interdisciplinary group (20 participants and 4-5 tutors) with both tutors and participants equally engaged in the same project
- Lecturers and tutors with extensive expertise in the theme of the School
- Excursions, meetings and research interviews with representatives of local government, public and private institutions and the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, as well as with active community members
- Applied work on the concept of Visaginas town museum in cooperation with representatives of the town’s cultural and knowledge sector representatives
- Distance work with the research literature and with the results of previous Visaginas urbanist Summer Schools (two weeks prior to the School, 4-5 hours a week)
- Accommodation in single hotel rooms
- Breakfasts and dinners, coffee breaks
- Long free evenings, a beautiful pine forest around a lake
- 3 ECTS credit points
- Cultural program in Vilnius
- Refined conceptual and design work in real life institutional, cultural and material situations
- The development of a concept for the Visaginas town museum in cooperation with local government and other urban development institutions
- A block of lectures on Soviet ‘nuclear’ towns as a particular mode of urbanization
- A block of lectures on the memory politics and memory infrastructures in urban development and planning
Participation fee
- 800 euros for DAAD stipend holders (8 stipends available for Bachelor and Master students of German Universities)
- 450 euros for all the rest'
Application procedure
Application documents - CV/portfolio, 300 words motivation letter, and recommendation letter (only for applicants for DAAD stipends) to be submitted by May 31. All applicants will be notified of selection results by June 14.
Application documents - CV/portfolio, 300 words motivation letter, and recommendation letter (only for applicants for DAAD stipends) to be submitted by May 31. All applicants will be notified of selection results by June 14.
Covid-19 note
In case of lockdown, the Summer School will take place online (from August 17 to 28, with course materials distributed in late July). Online participation fee would be 300 euros.
In case of lockdown, the Summer School will take place online (from August 17 to 28, with course materials distributed in late July). Online participation fee would be 300 euros.
Questions regarding the Summer School are to be sent to urbanism@ehu.lt
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