Workshop
EAST-WEST transcultural knowledge exchange in the development of defensive architecture in the 16-17th century
27.06.2023, 10:00 - 16:00 CET
The workshop idea aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on the way of transfer of experience and knowledge of the Culture and Heritage of fortified architecture in the 16-17th century analyzing theoretical treatises, built models, popular trends in military architecture, practices, materials, and technology. The attention will be focused on the European fortifications showing the knowledge transfer from the westernmost part of Europe, namely Iberian Peninsula to the easternmost Ukraine. However, it does not exclude other fortifications built overseas in colonies by European powers, which also were influenced by European practices. We will see how each country adapted well-known theoretical ideas to their situation and will be able to compare and discuss the similarities and differences in the discussion section.
The workshop is designed to show participants the methods of studying knowledge transfer from different perspectives: architectural, historian, and social to give them a range of tools for approaching such topics. The topics distinguish transfer methods in theory and in practice discussing real examples and study cases.
The tutor, Olha Tikhonova will show the methods and examples for finding influences from leading European treatises and famous built models on Polish-Lithuanian residential defensive architecture, to define the origin of bastion castles in Polish-Lithuania in the 17 centuries.
The tutor, Alena Bagro will show examples of possible ways in which the idea of building bastea fortifications from Western European countries could be borrowed by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as practical methods of comparative analysis of European fortifications and the fortifications that spread in the south-eastern frontier of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 17th century.
Organizers:Olha Tikhonova, Ph.D. (Assistant Prof. at Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
Alena Bagro, Ph.D. (Research fellow at German Historical Institute Warsaw)
The workshop part organized and performed by Olha Tikhonova is part of the dissemination activities of the project “Jacques Perret Influence on Defensive Polish Architecture in the 17th Century” led by Olha Tikhonova, received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 847639.
The workshop part organized and performed by Olena Bagro is part of the Scholarship program "Research perspective Ukraine" from German Historical Institute Warsaw.
