Curating (Post-)Socialist Environments

In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic dimensions of these (post-)socialist enactments or interventions? And how do such (post)socialist interventions in environments become (re)curated? By addressing these questions, this volume releases `curation' from its usual museological framing and carries it into urban environments and private life-worlds, from predominantly state-sponsored institutional settings with often normative orientations into spheres of subjectification, social creativity, and material commemorative culture.

Philipp Schorch is a professor of museum anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, leading an ERC-project entitled »Indigeneities in the 21st Century«. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Philipp's research focuses on museums, material culture/history/theory, contemporary art and (post)colonial histories, the Pacific and Europe, and collaborations with Indigenous artists/curators/scholars.
Daniel Habit (Dr.) is a senior lecturer at the Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universiät in Munich, where he received his PhD with a thesis on the concept of The European Capital of Culture programme of the European Union. His current research project in cooperation with the DFG funded research group 'Urban Ethics' deals with diverse processes of transformation in Bucharest from a urban and moral anthropology perspective.