Chairs:

Peter Szalay – Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic

Henrieta Moravčíková– Faculty of Architecture and Design, Slovak University of Technology

Presentations:

– Engaged research: Exploring and struggling for the architecture of welfare state

Peter Szalay

Henrieta Moravčíková

– Architectural Conservation and Political Resilience: The 2023 attack to the Palace of Congress in Brasilia

Danilo Matoso Macedo

Ana Carolina Pellegrini

– Away from nostalgia: a new approach for the forgotten welfare state industrial facilities

Maximiano Atria

– Continuity and Transformation of Post-War Modernist Architecture: The Case Study of the Former Communist Party Headquarters in Košice, Slovakia

Monika Kicová

– The Aylesbury Estate: Shifting Narratives on Urban Renewal        

Lucia Concetta Vincelli

James Aston Lansbury

– Wider than Welfare: industry, infrastructure and eradication       

Richard Brook