Book Launch for Re-Tooling Knowledge Infrastructures in a Nuclear Town

December 9, 10 am New York l 4 pm Vienna

OSUN member institution European Humanities University (EHU) invites network members to an online launch for Re-Tooling Knowledge Infrastructures in a Nuclear Town, a new book edited by Siarhei Liubimau and Benjamin Cope. During the event, co-authors will reflect on the process of preparing the book and will be available to answer questions from the audience.

Re-Tooling Knowledge Infrastructures in a Nuclear Town is the result of five applied urbanist summer schools organized by EHU's Laboratory of Critical Urbanism from 2016 to 2020, focused on the future of the nuclear town of Visaginas, Lithuania.

The Laboratory of Critical Urbanism examines the space/society relations inherent in nuclear development in order to build a research and design scaffolding for nuclear towns after their productive phase. The book analyzes the process of disentangling the city of Visaginas from its industrial function since the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant was decommissioned.

The main spatial site that framed the lab's work is the town’s public library, serving as a potentially strategic institution and facility in the process of disconnecting the site from the town. Although this work has resulted in concrete design proposals, the library building was only a starting point to start re-tooling spatial and social connections within Visaginas.

Re-tooling Knowledge Infrastructures is co-authored by Johanna Betz, Benjamin Cope, Dalia Čiupailaitė, Oksana Denisenko, Lívia Gažová, Martynas Germanavičius, Bogdan Kapatsila, Mažvydas Karalius, Miodrag Kuč, Michal Lehečka, Siarhei Liubimau, Iryna Lunevich, Paul Marx, Till Mayer, Miriam Neßler, Monika Pentenrieder, Alla Pigalskaya, Thomas Rettig, and Andrei Stsiapanau.

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