The lectures received strong interest from a consistent crowd of over 100 attendees and analysed the transformation of public space, the fate of housing estates, and varying facets of dissonant heritage, which have all defined socialist and postsocialist period in Europe.

Following World War II Bulgaria was not only destined to remain in the Soviet sphere of influence, but was also subjected to rapid modernisation, which has literally created almost all of our current built-up space, including most public spaces alongside a significant part of what to this day defines the modern way of life in Bulgaria. One of the key characteristics of the period is its complexity combined with the archetypal postwar utopian pursuit of constructing a better world. This very utopia, as we all know, ended rather poorly.