From sacrum to profanum: reinterpretation of communist places of power in Baltic cities
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Cultural landscape; Post-socialism; Sacrum; Place; Central–Eastern Europe; Baltic; Social semiotics.
ENPlaces always represent the social and cultural dimensions of societies, seen through relationships between ideas, beliefs, and hopes. Places and their social practices are interwoven into the urban fabric and have become vital components of urban and ideological identities. Ideological systems create unique arrangements and classifications of those special places, which can be called "hallowed" or "profaned." This project focuses on the recent transformation of the communist system of "sacral" spaces and their recent "profanation." The transformation of meaning, together with the use and attitude toward landscape, has become visible due to spatial and functional manifestations of post-socialist cities. [From the publication]
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