Women Architects under State Socialism Online Symposium

Women Architects under State Socialism Online Symposium
by the EAHN Special Interest Group Women and Gender in Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design

Symposium Conveners: Alla Vronskaya, Luca Csepely-Knorr, Svava Riesto

Day 1 – October 9 at 13:30 CET

13:30     Welcome and introduction – Alla Vronskaya – Luca Csepely-Knorr and Svava Riesto
13:35     Opening event: Exhibition talk –  “Comrades and Team Players. Women Who Built Berlin, Capital of the GDR” Ursula Müller and Katharina Deppisch
14:00-14:15        Break
14:15-16:15 Session 1: Alternative Archives I

Chair: Juliana Kei

1. Dijia Chen, Xiahong Hua, Yuli Zhong, Women Architects in China’s State Design Institutes: Collectivism, Professional Agency, and Gender-Neutral Ideals

1. Hatice Yaren Karadeniz, Shared Kitchens, Collective Care: Women Architects and Social Infrastructure in Yugoslav Self- Managed Housing, 1961-1980
2. Asma Mehan, Petro-Modern Housing: Women Architects in Iran’s Socialist Urban Projects
3. Lidija Butković Mićin, Alternative Sources, Alternative Histories: Researching Women Architects in Socialist Yugoslavia

16:15-16:30 Break

16:30-18:00 Session 2: Alternative Archives II

Chair: Anna Sokolina

1. Olga Kazakova, A Week Like Any Other. Combining the “Female” and “Professional” Roles of Women Architects in the Brezhnev-era USSR (Based on Personal Interviews)
2. Ingrid Ruudi, Minor archives in feminist research of Socialist architecture
3. Kaja Schelker, A Woman Architect of Polish Borderlands – The Network of Architect Anna Górska

Day 2: October 10 at 13:00 CET

13:00 -14:30  Session 1: Media

Chair: Sarah Wheat

1. Luis Miguel Lus-Arana and Lucia Perez-Moreno, (Film) Women Architects Under State Socialism. The Representation of women architects in commercial cinema in the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, 1956-1990
2. Jorun Jensen, Gendered Domesticity in Housing Magazines of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
3. Kateryna Malaia, Missing Women: Ukrainian Architects of the 1930s

14:3O-14:45 Break

14:45-16:15 Session 2: Institutions

Chair: Jelena Bogdanovich

1. Qendresa Ajeti, Silent Contributors: Women Architects and Architectural Education in Socialist Kosovo
2. Helka Dzsacsovszki, Protagonists in Restoring the Past: Women Architects in Historical Monument Conservation in State -Socialist Hungary
3. Anna Weichsel, Design(ed) Collectives – East German women in the selection process for architectural education

16:30    Closing event: “East” and “West”: On Geopolitics and Feminism
A dialogue between Helena Doudova and Elke Krasny

17:00-17:20        Closing remarks. Mary Pepchinski and Mariann Simon

This event is free for everyone to attend but registration is necessary: https://eventsignup.ku.dk/2025womenarchitectsunderstatesocialism/conference

Download the book of abstracts here.