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Heritage Preservation in East Central Europe: Practices, Resources, Communities

Heritage Preservation in East Central Europe: Practices, Resources, Communities 2. Adaptive Heritage Reuse

Adaptive heritage reuse is an emerging, interdisciplinary field of research and practice. Today, it spans multiple disciplines, engaging not only heritage preservationists but also urban planners and municipal developers. Why has this approach become so important, and is it truly a modern phenomenon, or rather a reinvention of historical practices? What are the key features of adaptive reuse in a post-socialist context? Furthermore, what criteria define successful adaptation, and where can we find best practices? This lecture will address these and many other questions.

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Lesson 2. Adaptive Heritage Reuse

Adaptive heritage reuse is an emerging, interdisciplinary field of research and practice. Today, it spans multiple disciplines, engaging not only heritage preservationists but also urban planners and municipal developers. Why has this approach become so important, and is it truly a modern phenomenon, or rather a reinvention of historical practices? What are the key features of adaptive reuse in a post-socialist context? Furthermore, what criteria define successful adaptation, and where can we find best practices? This lecture will address these and many other questions.

Introduction
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1. Heritage Communities & Community Heritage
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2. Adaptive Heritage Reuse
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3. Resources for Adaptive Heritage Reuse
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4. Industrial Heritage
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5. Social Value of Heritage
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6. Heritage under Socialism
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7. Socialism as Heritage
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8. Orphan, Lost & Displaced Heritage
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9. Heritage in Times of War
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10. Care for Heritage
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11. Future of Heritage
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Recommended literature
  • Augustiniok N., Houbart C., Plevoets B., Van Cleempoel K. (2025), “Adaptive reuse of built heritage: conserving and designing with values.” Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 15 (1), 24–41.
  • Bie Plevoets and Koenraad Van Cleempoel. Adaptive reuse of the built heritage: concepts and cases of an emerging discipline. Routledge, London, 2019. 256 pp. 
  • Ponomaryova, A., & Ryan, B. D. (2021). Will Kyiv’s Soviet Industrial Districts Survive? A Study of Transformation, Preservation, and Demolition of Industrial Heritage in Ukraine’s Capital. Journal of Planning History, 20(3), 220-268.
  • Open Heritage. Community-Driven Adaptive Reuse in Europe: Best Practice / Ed. by Heike Oevermann, Levente Polyák, Hanna Szemző, Birkhäuser Verlag 2023.
  • OpenHeritage project: https://openheritage.eu (materials translated into Ukrainian: https://reherit.org.ua/vidkryta-spadshhyna/).
  • Reherit: Portal of cultural heritage: https://reherit.org.ua.
  • Drummond L., Young D. (2020). Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms: Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective. University of Toronto Press.
  • Wawrzyniak, J., Dovydaitytė, L., & Tsaturyan, R. (2026). Industrial Mnemoscapes of Post-socialism: Heritage Legacies and Diverging Economic Memories. Collective Memory of Economic Crises and Transformations. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 93-120.
  • Yatsenko V., Osypenko H., Tyshkevych O., Toporkov V. (2024). Adaptive Reuse of Historic Rural School Buildings in Ukraine in the Poltava Region. International Journal of Conservation Science, 15(SI), 73–88. 
  • Wong L., Adaptive Reuse: Extending the Lives of Buildings. De Gruyter, 2016. 
  • Гаврилів, К. Т. (2021). Замок у стані тривалої руїни та заходи, спрямовані на його збереження. Вісник Національного університету “Львівська політехніка”. Серія: “Архітектура” 2 (6), 1-7.
  • Дворніков В. (2024). Істотні питання політики: нерухома культурна спадщина. Аналітична записка / Проєкт RES-POL; Center or Regional Development, PPV Knowledge networks.
  • Проєкти адаптації спадщини: можливості поширення досвіду: https://reherit.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/project-transfer.pdf.
  • Марків А. Л. (2026). Інтеграція пам’яток Римо-Католицької Церкви в соціокультурне життя м. Луцька (кін. ХХ – перша чверть ХХІ ст.) Вчені записки ТНУ ім. В. І. Вернадського. Серія: Історичні науки 37 (76), 1, 91-98. 
  • Рибчинський О. В. (2017). Формування та ревіталізація середмість історичних міст України: дисертація на здобуття наукового ступеня доктора архітектури: 18.00.01 / Національний університет “Львівська політехніка”. 438 с.
  • Сагайдак О. (2024). Істотні питання політики: культурна спадщина: Базовий звіт / Проєкт RES-POL; Center or Regional Development, PPV Knowledge networks.
Tasks for the lecture

The course is focused on practices of adaptive heritage reuse, including tangible and intangible aspects of heritage, in the broader region of East Central Europe and specifically in Ukraine. Methodologically, this course is grounded

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