The Project Zlín: Everyday Life in a Materialized Utopia

Lucie Galčanová; Barbora Vacková

doi:10.14712/12128112.3657

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2009) Articles

The Project Zlín

Everyday Life in a Materialized Utopia

Lucie Galčanová, Barbora Vacková,

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3657

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The Project Zlín: Everyday Life in a Materialized Utopia. (2009). Lidé Města, 11(2), 311-337. https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3657

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Abstract

This article is based on a contribution to the “Město – mýtus – identita” (City – Myth – Identity) conference. In it we attempt to consider Baťa and Zlín as a specific kind of myth which is still alive within our cultural milieu. In the text which follows we will deal with one chapter from the overall story of Zlín: with the forms of worker housing, the original assumptions around its construction and its life in everyday currency (based on in-depth interviews with the residents). With this analytical look at this unique phenomenon we wish to peer under one layer of the Zlín myth.

Keywords Zlín Baťa modernity myth ideology utopia housing family house

Author Biographies

Lucie Galčanová

works as a sociologist at the Institute for Research on Social Reproduction and Integration (IVRIS) of the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University in Brno. She is concerned with the sociology of the town and housing, is researching contemporary housing in the Baťa worker housing developments in Zlín and for her dissertation is studying the phenomenon of residential suburbanization. With her teacher Prof. Hana Librová she is also working on a project entitled “The individualization of the environment from an ecological perspective.”

Barbora Vacková

studied sociology at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University. She is currently working as a researcher worker at the Institute for Research on Social Reproduction and Integration (IVRIS) at the same faculty, dealing with the sociology of the town and housing. For her dissertation she is studying utopias, towns within utopias and the techniques of power in ideal societies.