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Introduction	_This blog is a part of the winter semester 2010/2011 "WarSaw ReConstructed" course at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany . The course analyzes conflicting ideologies of reconstruction, with an aim to find creative and exciting ways to interact with a city´s post-catastrophic landscape. Students are inspired to critically probe Weimar´s complicated relationship to its wartime and postwar history through studying the conflicts inherent to Warsaw´s memorial landscape. _In 1945, Warsaw became an international symbol of the total destruction of both human and urban fabric. During the next decades the city heaved under a superhuman reconstruction effort that catapulted it from an international symbol of total annihilation to a symbol of total reconstruction. Students of this course engage in a political and cultural reading of the post-catastrophic city and its architecture. In a series of lectures focused on Warsaw´s reconstruction and its resulting memorial landscape, students are challenged to read the city and apply this to Weimar - itself a site of trauma. These blog entries are their response.

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Education

Introduction

_This blog is a part of the winter semester 2010/2011 "WarSaw ReConstructed" course at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany . The course analyzes conflicting ideologies of reconstruction, with an aim to find creative and exciting ways to interact with a city´s post-catastrophic landscape. Students are inspired to critically probe Weimar´s complicated relationship to its wartime and postwar history through studying the conflicts inherent to Warsaw´s memorial landscape. _In 1945, Warsaw became an international symbol of the total destruction of both human and urban fabric. During the next decades the city heaved under a superhuman reconstruction effort that catapulted it from an international symbol of total annihilation to a symbol of total reconstruction. Students of this course engage in a political and cultural reading of the post-catastrophic city and its architecture. In a series of lectures focused on Warsaw´s reconstruction and its resulting memorial landscape, students are challenged to read the city and apply this to Weimar - itself a site of trauma. These blog entries are their response.