Events

Spring 2023
Education, Architecture, Policy
Online lecture series on post-war exchanges on educational policy and school building

Within the framework of the research project, we are organising a series of double and stand-alone lectures on the theme of international organisations shaping educational reforms and planning. Lecture topics include long-term notions of schooling and educational utopias, post-war educational reforms in GDR, Yugoslavia and Austria, historical and contemporary concepts of school interiors, and educational planning in the 1960s. The goal of the series is to initiate a transnational dialogue between historians of education and architectural historiographers, not unlike the exchanges between educators, educational planners and architects from the 1950s to 1970s.
Please join us for this dialogue on school architecture and its contexts.The presentations will be followed by a discussion. The lectures will be on Zoom; registration is requested. You will receive a Zoom link, a detailed program and reminders for the upcoming lectures.
Registration: eduarch.series@gmail.com
Zoom link: https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/66342156242

Conveners: Maja Lorbek, University of Applied Arts Vienna and Oliver Sukrow, TU Wien

Times and dates:

29 March 2023, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM, stand-alone lecture and discussion
Holger Zaunstöck (Halle): Baroque educational architecture and the “school-town” in Halle

19 April 2023, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM, double lecture and discussion
Anne-Sophie Kruscha (Wuppertal): Conceptual reconstruction. Rebuilding the School of the SBZ and the GDR in the educational tradition of the Enlightenment
Oliver Sukrow (Vienna): Teaching modern school architecture in the GDR: Helmut Trauzettel’s Lecture Series at TU Dresden and the reception of international school buildings during the Cold War

25 May 2023, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM, double lecture and discussion
Mitja Zorc (Ljubljana): Forward Into the Past. Learning clusters as organizational model for the design of school buildings, past and present: The case of Slovenia
Ning de Coninck-Smith (Copenhagen): Jørgen Gammelgaard, a Danish designer of school furniture. Asian Regional Institute for School Building Research, UNESCO, 1962-1972

7 June 2023, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM, double lecture and discussion
Sanja Petrović Todosijević (Belgrade): The Reform of the Primary School System in Serbia and Yugoslavia 1944-1959
Maja Lorbek (Vienna): Buildings Schools, Allocating Space. The Geographies of Schooling in Post-war Yugoslavia and Austria

14 June 2023, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM, stand-alone lecture and discussion
Maren Elfert (London): In the Shadow of the Cold War: The Rise of the Global Governance of Education

Lecture series >PDF

Zoom link lecture series

Upcoming events

7 June 2023, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM CET,
double lecture and discussion
Sanja Petrović Todosijević (Belgrade): The Reform of the Primary School System in Serbia and Yugoslavia 1944-1959
Maja Lorbek (Vienna): Buildings Schools, Allocating Space. The Geographies of Schooling in Post-war Yugoslavia and Austria

Abstract Sanja Petrović Todosijević: The Reform of the Primary School System in Serbia and Yugoslavia 1944-1959.
The reform of the primary school system in Serbia implemented from 1944 to 1959 can be understood as a part of several complex processes, some of which lasted for a very long time. It is inseparable from the struggle for the modernization, emancipation and democratization of Serbian society, the processes which, despite various discontinuities, could be observed from the end of the nineteenth century. It is inseparable from the struggle for the “new school” and the demands for a “fundamental” reform of school life which became prominent more than ever before in the post-war world faced not only with the tragic children suffering in the Second World War but also with the new “invention” of childhood. The reform cannot be understood without gaining an insight into the complex reform of the entire “educational life” inseparable from the cultural reform, which, in the period after the end of the Second World War and transformation of Serbian and Yugoslav society into a socialist society. Establishing a socialist society involved the creation of a “socialist man”. In the post-war conditions of Yugoslav society, this could not be achieved without establishing a new education and upbringing policy. In the conditions of the liberalization and democratization of social and political circumstances (which included the integration of Yugoslavia into a complex system of international institutions, of which various agencies of the United Nations, primarily UNESCO, were extremely important. The Committee for Education Reform (1953–1958) played a key role not only in the process of reforming the primary school system as a vital part of the entire school system in Yugoslavia but also in the creation of the modern school system, which, with its fundamental characteristics, exists in the Republic of Serbia to this day.

Abstract Maja Lorbek: Buildings Schools, Allocating Space. The Geographies of Schooling in Post-war Yugoslavia and Austria
Based on archival documents and primary sources, this presentation studies knowledge exchange between transnational organizations (such as the UIA School Building Commission, UNESCO and the OECD) and the respective local context of administration, experts and educational policy. The focus is on school reforms in post-war Yugoslavia and Austria from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. In addition to analyzing mechanisms of distribution of schools across the territory and rules for allocation of space within the school buildings, this contribution will also examine dialogues between educationalists and architects as well as foreign and national experts involved with the reform process.

Zoom link https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/66342156242

Past events

25.05.2023 double lecture and discussion

19.04.2023 double lecture and discussion

19 April 2023, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM CET
Anne-Sophie Kruscha (Wuppertal): Conceptual reconstruction. Rebuilding the School of the SBZ and the GDR in the educational tradition of the Enlightenment
Oliver Sukrow (Vienna): Teaching modern school architecture in the GDR: Helmut Trauzettel’s Lecture Series at TU Dresden and the reception of international school buildings during the Cold War
Zoom link https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/66342156242

29.03.2023 lecture

29 March 2023, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM, stand-alone lecture and discussion

Holger Zaunstöck (Halle): Baroque educational architecture and the “school-town” in Halle

25.01.2022

lecture Dina Dorothea Falbe (Berlin/Groningen): Schulkollektiv und Polytechnik. Schulbau in der DDR als gesellschaftliche Aufgabe in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren

12.05.2021

Kick-off Workshop with national and international partners

Programm > PDF