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After the Great Patriotic War, the Russian settlers were going to build their own world on the ruins of Königsberg and other cities in East Prussia, from where the Germans were deported in 1947. Architects designed neoclassical ensembles, but those plans were not realised. The Soviet towns of East Prussia were built up in the 60s and 70s with five-storey panel blocks and faceless modernist public buildings. The Kaliningrad region did not receive the Soviet identity associated with constructivism and neoclassicism, nor did it ever have a Russian identity. Today people discuss a diffusion of German and Russian cultures, but in reality it comes down to a call to restore the remaining German pre-war buildings and to bring the new buildings in line with them, using explicit and implicit quotations. There are no bearers of German culture in the Kaliningrad region.

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than five million lives by early 2022. Changes have affected all people on the planet. New rules and laws have appeared, giving rise not only to discontent and social unrest, but also to new opportunities, which are mostly related to the digitalization of life, communication and “remote” work. The dialogue touches upon the necessity of changes in the life, housing typology and structure of the cities.

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