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The Socially Engaged Architecture and its Memory

The paper investigates the links between architecture and its social purpose, with a specific focus on the institution known today as Public Open University Zagreb (POUZ) and previously also as the Workers and People’s University of Moša Pijade (RANS). The focus is on the innovative character of the architectural concept of socially engaged architecture and its changes in the context of societal transformation from the beginning of the 1960s to the present. This is a complex relationship between employees, users, programmes and the designed architectural environment on the one hand, and the political, economic and social context on the other. The interpretational framework employs the theories of architecture and design, anthropology of space and of architecture, anthropology of work and of education. The aim is to examine the sociocultural categories and the relationship between culture and the city (and work) in the variety of periods since the institution was founded. This, in addition to the theoretical and methodological insights afforded by ethnology and cultural anthropology approaches to space and architecture, will demonstrate how the significance and values ascribed to the public space were shaped and modified through time.

socially engaged architecture ; memory ; Public Open University Zagreb (POUZ) / Workers and People’s University of Moša Pijade (RANS)

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