EDUCATION

Within the Housing.Yu project a series of educational activities is carried out: reading workshops, study trips, knowledge-transfer workshops, digital humanities workshops and conversations with contemporaries. These activities enable the exchange of knowledge within the team and with a wider circle of domestic and international experts, while part of the programme is organized as public events that open the project’s themes to the scholarly and professional community and to the broader public.

The reading workshops are based on systematic research of domestic and international periodicals in the fields of architecture, urbanism and construction, providing a broader insight into housing construction in the period under study. During study trips, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers individually examine periodicals from ten selected foreign countries whose housing production influenced that of socialist Yugoslavia, and subsequently share the knowledge gathered with the rest of the team in workshops.

In the first research cycle, group study trips are also organized, during which team members visit the former Yugoslav republics (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia) and ten selected European countries: Austria, Czechia, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The team visits key housing projects and exchanges knowledge with local experts from related scholarly, educational and cultural institutions and from the non-governmental sector.

Through ten knowledge-transfer workshops, local and international experts are invited to speak on topics that are key to the project – from housing and housing construction in a broader European context to history, economics, political science, law, sociology and related disciplines. In the digital humanities workshops, team members are introduced to the basics of digital humanities, the digitization of archival materials and the VANIS information system (a database and interface for the analysis and visualization of professional and wider social networks). Two workshops are devoted to the development of two new Housing.Yu modules on housing estates and housing units – apartments, single-family houses and residential buildings – within the existing system.