DIJANA VUCINIC SYMPOSIUM TBILISI ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL 2022
The Tbilisi Architecture Biennial was established in 2017. TAB aims to bring together professionals from diverse disciplines united under one topic on a biannual basis. The TAB platform joins forces to generate exhibitions, new architectural installations, spatial experiments, symposiums and other activities related to the theme of the event. The topic, location as well as a curator change for each event.
Panel 1
LINA Community: Temporality and Spaces
Introducing LINA (Learn, Interact and Network in Architecture), a new European architecture platform that unites around 100 members from different countries and tackles the climate and environmental crises within a large network of various architectural organisations, happenings, festivals, and educational programs. Tied to the main theme of the 2022 biennial (“What’s next?”) the panel will present six of the member organisations that will elaborate on how their activities and organisations operate and plan their practices in the context of temporality, and uncertainty. Political, economical, or climate crises.
Participants:
Matevž Čelik – Director of LINA platform, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Irhana Sehović and Dunja Krvavac – LIFT/ Days of Architecture, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Ethel Baraona Pohl – DPR- Barcelona, Spain; Triin Ojari – Estonian Museum of Architecture, Tallinn, Martynas Germanavičius – Architecturas Fondas, Vilnius.
Panel 2
Trans-Socialist Spaces, Decolonial Futures
Did socialism – and the socialist city – really “collapse” in 1989-1991? Or do socialist cities (and the spaces they produced) temporally transcend the collapse of socialist regimes? How are war, violence, urbicide, genocide, and displacement implicated in the collapse of the socialist city and its infrastructures? And what is the relationship between post-socialist (or still-socialist, or zombie socialist, or trans-socialist) cities and architectures and post-colonial (and de-colonial) ones? Between de-colonisation, de communisation, de-sovietisation, and de-russification? What kinds of (radically different, decolonial) socialist futures might be exhumed, de-frosted, or sublimated from these traumatic pasts and tragic presents?
Participants:
Nini Palavandishvili, Impulsive Decolonization and Politics of Memory. World War II Memorials in Georgia; Dijana Vučinić, Negotiating Futures: Memory and Heritage; Armina Pilav, Architects in the War: On Destructive Metamorphosis, Documenting Methods and Non-Design; Manuel Herz, Babyn Yar Synagogue; Maksym Rokmaniko, Russian Strike on the Kyiv TV Tower; Tinatin Gurgenidze – Friendship Monuments in Georgia; Michal Murawski – Towards an Amputated Form of Trans-Socialist Friendship; Ed Pulford – Sino-Russian Friendships with and against the State; Da-Hyng Jeong – Soviet-Architectual Afro-Asiatism; Polina Baitsym – Pasts of Friendship: Forging “Ties” with russia in Ukrainian Post-war Art Historical Thought