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- Two Extremes at the European Peripheries: Baltic and Iberian post-industrial culturesPublication . moreira, ines`Two extremes at the European peripheries: Baltic and Iberian post-industrial cultures´ departs from a precise title and essays grasping distant and, to a certain extent, unrelated contemporary cultural conditions of two extremely diverse regions in the periphery of Europe, one facing the Baltic sea and the former USSR, the other facing the Atlantic and its former empires. Undergoing dissimilar historical and political processes, the Baltic region and the Iberian Peninsula relate to recent XXth and XXIst Century history differently: the resignification of past events, sites and stories can be extreme, whether celebrated or remembered, other times actively supressed and effaced. The spatial strategies towards the (industrial) past and the new unbound contemporary cultural practices are diverse and may not be represented in a single overarching map. This written essay aims to bring forth examples of resignification of the past and memory through new contemporary and spatial cultures by posing a set of questions: which pasts are celebrated and effaced through spatial intervention? Are new cultural projects altering historical narratives? The document sits in observations taken from fieldwork and research activity in three different sites – Tallinn, Chernobyl/Prypiat and Porto - and assumes a fragmentary and grounded position, inscribing the annotations and a posteriori conceptualization on a possible dialogue between the conditions and the contrasting cultural approaches.
- A morte e a vida dos monumentos soviéticosPublication . MOREIRA, Inês; CARPENTIER, Nico; MELIORANSKI, Ruth; RUNNEL, PilleMonuments and memorials are architectural communicational gestures of political representation affirmed in public spaces and interpelating citizens to reflect on past events. Memorials attempt to freeze time and its permanence is legitimated by historical/political significance, celebrated in cyclic official acts and ceremonies. If the projection and construction of monuments is an exercise of authorship and power relations, the projection and construction of memory is a more diffuse and collective exercise of celebration, denial, resignification and erasure of past events, and, as well, of shifting narratives on the past. In this essay we address recent troubles around a specific selection of Soviet Monuments situated in the new republics defining the western limit of former Soviet Union, particularly in Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine, based on our field observations and depictions, which we have been publishing in the last months.