Modernist neighbourhoods were created with a high degree of technical and technological skills, with a great sense of the aesthetic, and with a lot of empathy for the needs of ordinary people (social responsibility). Residential buildings with cautiously thought-out apartment solutions, carefully positioned into large public green areas, provide an opportunity to identify the qualities of the built environment that are essential for pleasant living. Recognition and respect of the values of a particular settlement are crucial for appropriate public relation to modernist neighbourhoods. We would like to prepare a toolkit for direct users, that is, inhabitants of neighbourhoods or multi-dwelling buildings, and also for building managers, which will contribute to a (gradual) transformation (mainly due to improper maintenance degraded) modernist neighbourhoods into the attractive urban areas of high-quality. Through our platform that will include also some examples of good practise, we’ll try to show possible ways, how modernist neighbourhoods can be transformed into desirable places to live, how they can be adapted to the modern way of life and new necessities, while at the same time maintaining their original appearance, authenticity and integrity, and how can this be achieved.

The talk is a part of the Open Education Design Workshop 2019 event filmed and produced by Videolectures.NET.