Cold War Spaces: An Online Discussion Series

The 40th Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Łukasz Stanek, Associate Professor at the Manchester School for Architecture, University of Manchester, and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming. They will talk about his recent book Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War, in which he documents and analyses the relations between the Soviet Bloc countries and the Global South in terms of architecture and urban planning.

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An online program reflecting on space as a gateway to cultural history, the Wende Museum presents this series of weekly interviews asking questions about Cold War spaces.

How does space impact the way we live and experience our environment? What did private space really mean under socialism? What was the function of public space between state planning and private appropriation? Who was sent to the secluded spaces of prisons, mental institutions, and gulags? Which global connections were established in spite or because of Cold War borders? What imaginary spaces were created by art, science fiction, and utopian dreaming? And how did all these spaces change after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union?