Curating (post )socialist environments Frontmatter Inhalt Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Urbanities 1. Vergangenheit was tun 2. Monuments and Memorial Spaces of Socialist Bulgaria 3. Curating Out the Socialist Alternative 4. Kunstobjekte auf der Drehbühne der Geschichte 5. Re curated Remains Part II: Museologies 6. Beyond Horseplay 7. (Re‑)curating Africa 8. Curator’s Trade in Ideals 9. Rehearsal for Lumumba Part III: Materials Visuals Performances 10. Aus Häusern und Containern 11. Handgezeichnete Afrikakarten in ihrem Entstehungsumfeld der DDR 12. „Verstoßene Soldaten“ – verstoßene Helden 13. Curating Socialism Curating Democracy! Afterword Contributors to this Volume In which ways are environments (post )socialist and how do they come about How is the relationship between the built environment memory and debates on identity enacted What are the spatial material visual and aesthetic dimensions of these (post )socialist enactments or interventions And how do such (post)socialist interventions in environments become (re)curated By addressing these questions this volume releases `curation from its usual museological framing and carries it into urban environments and private life worlds from predominantly state sponsored institutional settings with often normative orientations into spheres of subjectification social creativity and material commemorative culture