Mapping Visaginas is the second book in a series promoting Critical Urbanism as a way of analyzing the changing relationships between citizens, the state and the international context in shaping urban spaces in Central- and Eastern Europe. In this participatory research into the former mono-functional nuclear town of Visaginas in the East of Lithuania, we used mapping as a process-oriented technique to explore sources of urbanity. The book was edited by the Laboratory of Critical Urbanism at the European Humanities University in Vilnius.
Among the authors are: Felix Ackermann, Anja Baniewicz, Svetlana Boguslavskaya, Aleksandr Chaplya, Dalia Čiupailaitė, Benjamin Cope, Oksana Denisenko, Marija Drėmaite, Leonard Ermel, Valiantsina Fashchanka, Inga Freimane, Gerrit Füssel, Anna-Luise Goetze, Yves Haltner, Afra Höck, Miodrag Kuč, Arne Kunkel, Siarhei Liubimau, Terezie Lokšová, Povilas Marozas, Gintarė Norkūnaitė, Galina Orlova, Sibylle Piechaczek, Alla Pigalskaya, Diana Poškienė, Ida Roscher, Indrė Ruseckaitė, Indrė Saladžinskaitė, Anika Schmidt, Simone Schöler, Steffen Schumann, Viktoryia Stalybka, Paulė Stulginskaitė, Hanna Tsimoshyna, Vytautas Valatka, Joachim Werner, Anna Veronika Wendland, Rugilė Zadeikytė
This publication presents a comprehensive discussion of the artist’s biography and work, highlighting his connections with Saint Petersburg’s Mir iskusstva and Poland’s Sztuka societies, and describes his travels around Western Europe and his ‘golden age’ of painting at the Bogdanov Estate. The book accentuates the artist’s special bond with Vilnius, which for him was more than just a city, rather, an entire country, whose citizen he proclaimed to be.
Memories of a Future comprises of short essays related to art and its study. They are linked, but simply pick up the book and read whichever you wish. Memories of a Future recalls the optimism of looking to a better future.