Trauma & Revival frames residency as a geopolitical and pedagogical apparatus for reopening historical relations rather than as isolated studio production. Its central operation is comparative encounter: artists and researchers from Eastern and Western Europe are brought into workshops, lectures, discussions, open studios and travelling institutional contexts structured around contested memories of 1945–1968 and their persistence in the present. The programme turns a historical exhibition into a point of departure for new work, then uses tutors from art, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, activism and journalism to thicken the field of interpretation. The method is deliberately trans-institutional and mobile, linking Riga, Biella, Moscow, Krakow and Brussels while treating borders, shared memory, imagined futures and cultural diplomacy as research material. Its wider contribution lies in showing how a residency can function as a distributed civic infrastructure: place, history, pedagogy and public encounter are composed into a framework capable of generating new relations without reducing difference to a single European narrative.
URBANISM MEETS ART