TY - GEN A1 - Viderman, Tihomir A1 - Berc, Dafne ED - Čamprag, Nebojša ED - Suri, Anshika T1 - What meaning for modernity? Politics of socialist heritage in Croatia T2 - Three Decades of Post-socialist Transition. Conference Programme N2 - A visibility of Yugoslavia’s architectural heritage has over the last 30 years been built within spaces of representation which have appeared fragmented across successor countries and rather vaguely situated within their institutional frameworks. Owing to these spaces of representation, a wide range of various aspects of Yugoslav urbanization from different epistemological perspectives have been pushed into the global narrative of modernity. However, little is known about how exactly these spaces of representation have been instituted during and after the breakup of Yugoslavia and what kind of meaning and aesthetics they inscribe into socialist heritage. In order to critically reflect on these spaces, this contribution relates the curatorial and activist praxis that discursively evokes and recreates socialist modernity to contemporary processes of capitalist urbanization. The hypothesis of this contribution is that such a praxis has a very territorial dimension as it promotes a particular aesthetic of urbanization. While inscribing into the representations of socialist heritage celebrated notions of localized differences and informality of everyday life, they override the heritage of macroeconomic and spatial master-planning of territory. Based on qualitative content analysis and ethnographic methods of participatory observation and interviews, the activist and curatorial praxis in Croatia will be scrutinized concerning both the contents and funding, to understand how it inscribes a particular perspective on the political and professional role of planning and design professionals, both in socialist heritage and the city politics. The two key moments are recognized in the praxis: (1) promoting socialist modernity as an emancipatory project while smoothing out ambiguities regarding colonial dimensions of the geopolitics of inequality, thus contributing to (2) the dissolution of the state-controlled planning framework in favour of a patchwork of institutions, institutionalized NGOs, and (global) market players. Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-86358 UR - https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/8635 SP - 49 CY - Darmstadt ER -