Město, architektura a ideologie
On Thursday, February 19, at 3:30 p.m., the Institute for Contemporary History will host a workshop entitled „City, Architecture, and Ideology: Prague in the 1950s.“ The workshop is intended for history teachers and students studying to become history teachers, and will be led by Dr Michal Kurz (Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences).
The workshop is part of the series How to Teach About the City? The meeting is intended for 25-30 participants.
The electronic application form is available here.
Program:
3:30-4:15 p.m. – introductory lecture
4:30-6:00 p.m. – didactic workshop
What will we focus on?
The lecture „The City, Architecture, and Ideology“ will focus on the possibilities and limitations of transforming urban space and imprinting certain values, ideas, or ideologies on it. It will examine the extent to which architecture can „communicate“ these ideas through its characteristics or decoration. Using the example of Prague and its socialist construction in the 1950s, it will illustrate the ways in which the past and historical references were treated at the time, which were used in the transformation of the urban environment in the spirit of the ideal of „better tomorrows“ and „new man.“
The follow-up workshop will offer participants the opportunity to try working with various types of visual, textual, and cartographic sources (architectural projects, works of art, press articles, politicians‘ speeches, photo reports) and to consider how they can be used to develop students‘ understanding of the relationship between space, power, and ideology.
The workshop is part of the Urbanity project.
