Community Talks Back: Writing and Filming the History of the Red Bucharest Housing Estates (1945-1958)

Andrei Răzvan Voinea is general manager of the NGO Studio Zona (https://asz.ro/home/) since 2016. The organization develops projects that bring together academic research with local communities to create a complementary narrative about the relevance of history in shaping identity and informing public policy. To achieve this, Studio Zona has organized exhibitions, written film scripts, produced documentary films, published books and informational flyers, and distributed them to residents of historic social housing districts.

In 2022, Studio Zona led a complex research project focuing on the housing developments constructed during the early years of the communist regime - CVARTAL. After conducting dozens of interviews with current residents and extensive archival research, the project culminated in open-air documentary screenings held in the courtyards of the apartment buildings, with the participation of the tenants themselves.

When: Monday, June 16, 2025, 5:00–6:30 PM

Link: https://rwth.zoom-x.de/j/68406450492?pwd=7CvsjJIUb9OM3r90bKJ2ZdQb9WaJmo.1
Meeting-ID: 684 0645 0492
Kenncode: 936550