Pilk sotsialistliku linna tühermaadele ja tagahoovidesse: happening’id, mängud ja jalutuskäigud Tallinnas 1970. aastatel
A Glance at the Wastelands and Back Yards of a Socialist City: Happenings, games and walks in Tallinn in the 1970s

Summary/Abstract: The current article examines the legendary happenings, games and walks of a group of artists and architects in the 1970s Tallinn, and attempts to reveal through these, as specific spatial practices, how the group related to the directly surrounding environment – the industrialised and urbanising Tallinn. One of the starting points of the article was Leonhard Lapin’s remark that it was namely the happenings that reconciled the young architects with the surrounding environment and taught them to accept the local context, but also to see a living human being as the subject of architecture, ‘a human being himself, forgotten in the large-scale production, a knowledgeable and sensitive person instead of a socialist robot’. My aim is to analyse the urban attitudes of a generation. Among other things I am interested in town as a location of collective practices and communication, trying to find out how people related to architecture and public space (here it is understood as constructed physical environment, a space in common usage, leaving aside such forms of the public sphere as mass media) via the happenings, and finally tackle the problem of remembering that in the 1970s was directly associated with the environment.

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