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.

Lecture series >PDF

Past events

14 June 2023, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM CET,
lecture and discussion
Maren Elfert: In the Shadow of the Cold War: The Rise of the Global Governance of Education

 

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

 

 

25.05.2023 double lecture and discussion

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

 

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

 

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