ANNUAL MEETING 2022 OF THE SPP 2255 IN DESSAU-ROSSLAU

The second annual meeting of the DFG Priority Program Cultural Heritage Construction once again provided participants with opportunities for intensive professional exchange and networking. Presentations, discussion panels and site visits offered opportunities to look beyond the boundaries of one’s own disciplines, both with regard to one’s own project work and in relation to the 2022 annual theme of “Authenticity”.

Common Ground #2 – monument preservation

As in the spring, the researchers from the various sub-projects, who come from different professional backgrounds, once again met for their own event in the context of the annual meeting of the SPP 2255. Supported by external speakers, the “Common Ground” workshop serves to create a common basis with regard to the core disciplines of the SPP. After focusing on the history of construction technology in Cottbus, this time on 11.10.2022 important aspects of monument preservation were discussed.

Think tank “Authenticity”

The public Think Tank 2022 on the annual theme of “Authenticity” in the auditorium of the Bauhaus Dessau on 12.10.2022 marked the start of the annual meeting of all participants in SPP 2255. The levels of meaning of a key concept of monument preservation were explored from different perspectives and its relevance with regard to the cultural heritage of construction was discussed.

Excursion to the cultural heritage site of construction in Dessau

After the theoretical discussion, the focus on October 13, 2022 will be on confronting specific buildings and the challenges they face. In the morning, under the expert guidance of Dr.-Ing. Dorothea Roos (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation), the Bauhaus building was used as an example to explore the question of what role the ideal of authenticity can actually be given in the context of dealing with ultra-modern constructions in top works of architectural modernism. In the afternoon, under the direction of Dr. Andreas Butter (Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research, Erkner), various buildings at several locations in Dessau were visited, with a particular focus on aspects of the (authentic?) preservation of historical building constructions in the context of industrial heritage in structurally weak regions.

Outlook 2023

The 2022 annual meeting heralded the final phase of the first funding period of SPP 2255, which runs until the end of 2023. On the morning of October 14, 2022, there was an opportunity to discuss specific collaborations between individual sub-projects at cluster level or in smaller groups in seminar rooms at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. Afterwards, a general assembly of all participants in SPP 2255 in the Audimax of Anhalt University of Applied Sciences provided an opportunity to look back on the work done so far and to look ahead to the upcoming call for proposals for the second funding period.

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