Sofiya Dyak

This project compares the integration of two Central European cities, Wrocław and Lviv, into new symbolic systems of national and political belonging, imagination, and power after the Second World War by looking at the space of the cities, the cityscapes, which reflected the authorities’ efforts to impose their version of history, politics, and identity and, after the end of Communism, of overcoming (or not) the legacies of these efforts. This research combines two components, employed – to different degrees – in building new identities for Lviv and Wrocław after 1944/45 and after 1989/1991, i.e. urban planning and the politics of memory.