U tähistab oma esimest juubelit kaaluka, kuid meie kohalikus kontekstis üllatavalt vähekõnetatud teemaga: Sinu ees on postsotsialistliku linna eri, mis on sündinud koostöös kevadsemestril Eesti Kunstiakadeemias toimunud kaasaegse maastikuarhitektuuri teooria loengukursusel osalenud magistrantidega.

Postsotsialism, nagu selgus mitmetest kevade jooksul peetud aruteludest, on elevant meie elutoas - kogukas peletis, kes hõivab ruumi pea iga nurgani, kuid kelle kohalolu sellegipoolest püütakse ignoreerida. Seekord samasse kaalukategooriasse pürgiv mahukas U erinumber on teinud uurimisretke postsotsialistlikesse nähtustesse. Kui viirastuslik käik see oli, võib aimata juba seekordsest sissejuhatavast tekstist.

Loe U10 siit .

U is celebrating its first double-digit birthday with a weighty yet, in our local context, surprisingly rarely addressed topic: in front of you is the special issue of the Post-socialist city, produced in co-operation with the MA students who participated in the spring semester course of contemporary landscape architecture theory at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Postsocialism, as we discovered from the several discussions held during the spring, is the elephant in our living room ? that heavyweight beast who's taking up almost every corner of the space but whose presence everybody is nevertheless trying to ignore. The extraordinarily voluminous current issue of U, aspiring to fit in the heavy wheight category, took up an expedition into the phenomena of post-socialism. The introductory text will give You an idea what a phantasmal venture that was.

Read U10 from here .