"Today Is a Gift for You, Dedicate Yourselves to Tomorrow!" Prague Castle as a Space of the Transformation of Czechoslovak Society through Education, Technology and Leisure in the 1960s

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"Today Is a Gift for You, Dedicate Yourselves to Tomorrow!" Prague Castle as a Space of the Transformation of Czechoslovak Society through Education, Technology and Leisure in the 1960s
Original language description
In 1960, the Czechoslovak Communist Party declared that socialism had been successfully established in the country. Prague Castle, an important symbol of Czechoslovak statehood and the seat of the President, was supposed to be transformed into a monument to the building of socialism. Its premises were not supposed to serve as a ‘passive’ reminder of this historical moment; instead, it was to become an active participant in the transformation of Czechs and Slovaks into ‘new people’ able to build communism during their lifetimes through the use of technological innovation. A special council consisting of well-known architects, artists, scientists, and politicians was chaired by the president in order to plan a network of progressive museums in the former royal palaces, monasteries, and churches of Prague Castle, accompanied by new, ostentatiously modernist buildings. As a result of political liberalisation during the 1960s, this project, which had originally focused on political education, slowly shifted towards the creation of a place for art and leisure.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/DG18P02OVV041" target="_blank" >DG18P02OVV041: Architecture and Czech politics in the 19th to 21st century</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
The Caring State and Architecture: Sites of Education and Culture in Socialist Countries
ISBN
978-953-8232-13-8
Number of pages of the result
22
Pages from-to
177-198
Number of pages of the book
236
Publisher name
Hrvatsko etnološko drruštvo
Place of publication
Zagreb
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