The event is being held due to the successfully completed projects "Conservation Management Plan" and "Emergency Mosaics' Stabilization for Buzludzha Monument" in Bulgaria. The conference will include other conservation and restoration projects on post-war modernism in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as comparable examples funded by the Getty Foundation as part of the "Keeping it Modern" initiative, which started in 2014 and ended in 2020.
More information on the conference programme and registration process can be found in the flyer.
Documentation and multilingual publication of the conference papers are planned in the series "ICOMOS – Journals of the German National Committee".
Patronage: Galina Stoyanova, Mayor of Kazanlak Municipality
Organisers: ICOMOS National Committees of Bulgaria and Germany
Hosts: Kazanlak Municipality; Iskra History Museum; Buzludzha Project Foundation
Partners: University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia; Bulgarian National Academy of Art in Sofia; Bern University of the Arts (HKB); Technical University of Munich (TUM); Diadrasis NGO; German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI); Europa Nostra; International Scientific ICOMOS Committees on 20th Century Heritage (ISC 20C), on Cultural Tourism (ICTC) and on Historic Cities, Towns and Villages (CIVVIH)