Dora Ivanova's guest appearances

Dora Ivanova

Museum Archipelago

Bulgarien - Der Podcast, mit Sibila Tasheva

Porchia Moore

Barbara Hicks-Collins

Sherril York

Sarah Nguyen

Julie Garcia

David Gough

Margaret Middleton

Brian Muthaliff

Deyana Kostova

Rainey Tisdale

Dustin Growick

Lisa Brochu

Sanchita Balachandran

Joe Galliano

David Scofield

OwlTail

101. Buzludzha Always Centered Visitor Experience. Dora Ivanova is Using Its Structure to Create a New One.

Busludscha Denkmal Für die Berliner-Architektin Dora Ivanova war die Begegnung mit der "Kathedrale der kommunistischen Partei", heute eher als "Ufo auf dem Balkangebirge" bekannt, Liebe aus dem ersten Blick. Wie das Buzludzha-Denkmal früher und heute aussieht und warum die Rettung des Gebäudes nicht ihr eigentliches Ziel ist; wie man mit bulgarischen Behörden arbeitet und warum sich namenhafte deutsche Professoren und Architekten am Projekt "Busludscha" beteiligen, erzählt sie im Gespräch mit Sibila Tasheva.  Links zu dieser Folge: http://www.buzludzha-project.com - die offizielle Seite des Projekts Buzludzha https://www.facebook.com/events/buzludzha-hut-meadow-поляната-при-хижа-бузлуджа/open-buzludzha-2022/646390326589442/ - Open Buzludzha Fest 19-21. August 2022   "Bulgarien - Der Podcast" ist ein Interview-Podcast über Bulgarien, in dem wir spannende, offene, ganz persönliche Gespräche mit Gästen aus allen Bereichen und Gesellschaftsschichten führen. Was sie eint, ist der besondere Blick auf ein Bulgarien jenseits der Klischees. Gesellschaft, Kultur, Wirtschaft, Reiseziele, Geschichte, Essen und Politik sind einige der Themen dieses Podcasts. Gastgeberin ist Dr. Sibila Tasheva - Autorin ("111 Gründe, Bulgarien zu lieben"), Reiseveranstalterin (www.tact-bulgarien.de), Unternehmerin, Kletterin (www.tact-muenchen.de) und Juristin. Sie verbrachte die ersten 18 Jahre ihres Lebens in Bulgarien und die nächsten 18 in Deutschland, heute pendelt sie zwischen den beiden Ländern und lässt in diesem Podcast ihre persönlichen Erfahrungen aus beiden Kulturen einfließen. Abonnieren, bewerten und empfehlen Sie uns: Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music/Audible Deezer Podimo   Feedback? Fragen? Anregungen? Ich freue mich über Ihre Nachricht! Website: https://bulgarien-derpodcast.podigee.io E-Mail: info@tact-bulgarien.de Der Titelsong unseres Podcasts kommt von dem bulgarischen Sänger und Songwriter Petko Slavov und heißt “Velika samota”.  Das Cover dieses Podcasts stammt von der Illustratorin Brigitta Heim.

Busludscha Denkmal Für die Berliner-Architektin Dora Ivanova war die Begegnung mit der "Kathedrale der kommunistischen Partei", heute eher als "Ufo auf dem Balkangebirge" bekannt, Liebe aus dem ersten Blick. Wie das Buzludzha-Denkmal früher und heute aussieht und warum die Rettung des Gebäudes nicht ihr eigentliches Ziel ist; wie man mit bulgarischen Behörden arbeitet und warum sich namenhafte deutsche Professoren und Architekten am Projekt "Busludscha" beteiligen, erzählt sie im Gespräch mit Sibila Tasheva. Links zu dieser Folge: <a href="http://www.buzludzha-project.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.buzludzha-project.com</a> - die offizielle Seite des Projekts Buzludzha <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/buzludzha-hut-meadow-поляната-при-хижа-бузлуджа/open-buzludzha-2022/646390326589442/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/buzludzha-hut-meadow-поляната-при-хижа-бузлуджа/open-buzludzha-2022/646390326589442/</a> - Open Buzludzha Fest 19-21. August 2022 "Bulgarien - Der Podcast" ist ein Interview-Podcast über Bulgarien, in dem wir spannende, offene, ganz persönliche Gespräche mit Gästen aus allen Bereichen und Gesellschaftsschichten führen. Was sie eint, ist der besondere Blick auf ein Bulgarien jenseits der Klischees. Gesellschaft, Kultur, Wirtschaft, Reiseziele, Geschichte, Essen und Politik sind einige der Themen dieses Podcasts. Gastgeberin ist Dr. Sibila Tasheva - Autorin ("111 Gründe, Bulgarien zu lieben"), Reiseveranstalterin (<a href="http://www.tact-bulgarien.de)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.tact-bulgarien.de)</a>, Unternehmerin, Kletterin (<a href="http://www.tact-muenchen.de" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.tact-muenchen.de</a>) und Juristin. Sie verbrachte die ersten 18 Jahre ihres Lebens in Bulgarien und die nächsten 18 in Deutschland, heute pendelt sie zwischen den beiden Ländern und lässt in diesem Podcast ihre persönlichen Erfahrungen aus beiden Kulturen einfließen. Abonnieren, bewerten und empfehlen Sie uns: Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music/Audible Deezer Podimo Feedback? Fragen? Anregungen? Ich freue mich über Ihre Nachricht! Website: <a href="https://bulgarien-derpodcast.podigee.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bulgarien-derpodcast.podigee.io</a> E-Mail: <a href="mailto:info@tact-bulgarien.de">info@tact-bulgarien.de</a> Der Titelsong unseres Podcasts kommt von dem bulgarischen Sänger und Songwriter Petko Slavov und heißt “Velika samota”. Das Cover dieses Podcasts stammt von der Illustratorin Brigitta Heim.

S2E3: Dora Ivanova, Architektin: Die Retterin von Buzludzha (das bulgarische UFO auf dem Berg)

High in the Bulgarian mountains, Buzludzha monument is deteriorating. Commemorating early Bulgarian Marxists, it was designed to emphasize the power and modernity of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Buzludzha is now at the center of a debate over how Bulgaria remembers its past. Some people want to destroy it, some people want to restore it to its former glory, but Bulgarian architect Dora Ivanova has a better idea.Ivanova wants to turn it into a museum, and she founded the Buzludzha Project Foundation to do exactly that. In this episode, Ivanova describes how the city of Berlin inspired her plan for the preservation of Buzludzha, how to preserve the past without glorifying it, and the next steps to making her plan a reality. Topics Discussed00:00 Intro00:15 Buzludzha's Opening Ceremony01:04 Buzludzha Today01:38 Buzludzha As Propaganda02:00 Dora Ivanova02:20 "The Cathedral of Socialism"02:45 Ian's Buzludzha Visit03:30 Ivanova on Perserving Buzludzha04:22 What To Do With Old Monuments04:59 Ivanova's Museum Proposal06:20 Tower Elevator07:05 Next Steps07:56 Inspiration From The City of Berlin09:22 The Buzludzha Project Foundation09:37 Outro - Join Club Archipelago Museum Archipelago is a tiny show guiding you through the rocky landscape of museums. Subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, or even email to never miss an episode. Unlock Club Archipelago  🏖️     If you like episodes like this one, you’ll love Club Archipelago. It offers exclusive access to Museum Archipelago extras. It’s also a great way to support the show directly.  Join the Club for just $2/month. Your Club Archipelago membership includes: Access to a private podcast that guides you further behind the scenes of museums. Hear interviews, observations, and reviews that don’t make it into the main show; Archipelago at the Movies 🎟️, a bonus bad-movie podcast exclusively featuring movies that take place at museums; Logo stickers, pins and other extras, mailed straight to your door; A warm feeling knowing you’re supporting the podcast.   Transcript Below is a transcript of Museum Archipelago episode 47. Museum Archipelago is produced for the ear and the only the audio of the episode is canonical. For more information on the people and ideas in the episode, refer to the links above.       View Transcript                  [Intro] In 1981, on top of a mountain in the middle of Bulgaria, high-ranking members of the Bulgarian communist party gathered to celebrate the opening of a new monument.  The monument, called Buzludzha Memorial House, was erected here to commemorate the 90 year anniversary of the first illegal meeting of Bulgarian Marxists. The communist dictator of Bulgaria, Todor Zhivkov, dedicated the monument.  [Audio of Zhivkov’s speech in Bulgarian]  “Let the pathways leading here, never fall into disrepair,” he said.  Of course, it did fall into disrepair. Eight years after opening, Todor Zhivkov was deposed from office by his own party, and soon after the rule of the Bulgarian Communist Party crumbled. Buzludzha is in an eerie state of decay. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s mostly in the shape of a flying saucer — an enormous round disc of concrete. If a particular alien culture had a fetish for brutalism, this would be their spaceport. Rising out of the back of the saucer is a tower, 230 ft high, and flanked by two red stars. The communist party claimed that the red stars, illuminated at night by spotlights, could be seen from as far away as the Romanian border in the north, and the Greek border to the south.  Dora Ivanova: It was on purpose built like this. It was built to impress. It was built as part of the political propaganda and education as they called it during this time. It’s shape looks like a UFO, actually. This is also on purpose because it had to show how the socialist idea is contemporary, it’s the future.  This is Dora Ivanova.   Dora Ivanova: Hello, my name is Dora Ivanova, and I am the founder of the Buzledzha Project Foundation, which aims to preserve the Buzludzha monument. The first time I visited Buzledga was in 2014. I was amazed. It’s a really powerful place. It felt like being in a cathedral. The cathedral of socialism, I’ll call it. I found that it is in not that bad condition, that it can still be saved. I was thinking that it is defiantly worth saving. But later, with my next visits, I got more sad and  sadder about the condition. Seeing every time that the condition of the construction is worse and worse, it is really hard for me.  I visited Buzledzha in the summer of 2018. The glass is gone from its windows, the red stars have been shot at and smashed, and there are worrying holes in the concrete structure. The monument has been left to decay — mostly sitting in limbo as the Bulgarian socialist party and the Bulgarian government argue over what to do with it. The only new development was that in January of 2018, a guard has been posted at the site to prevent people from entering and seeing the atrium or the crumbling socialist mosaics inside. He said he was not allowed to do an interview.  Both Ivanova and I are too young to have lived under Socialism in Bulgaria directly. My association with that period of time has been almost exclusively with the old monuments scattered around the country.  Dora Ivanova: In my opinion, the building should be preserved in its present condition. It defiantly should not be restored. To restore it would restore its meaning, and for many people it means to restore the glory of the socialist party. And this is defiantly something we don’t want to do. Many other people want it to turn into something different or imagine having a different function. But I think Buzledzha is interesting with what it is, what it stands for, and what it has already. I don’t think we need to put additional meaning or function to it. If we explain what is already there, if we explain the history which is behind this structure, this is the most powerful and meaningful solution.  Museum Archipelago has explored the theme of what to do with these old monuments before, particularly monuments that are symbols of repressive ideologies.  Episodes 5 and 35, about Stalinworld in Lithuania and The Museum of Socialist Art in the Bulgaria deal with these issues directly. But Buzledza is such an extreme example, and the debate around it, as far as I have heard, ether centers around completely destroying it or returning it to its former glory.  Ivanova has a different idea. After visiting for the first time, she knew that she wanted to devote her Master’s thesis to an in-depth proposal to transform the site into a museum.    Dora Ivanova: My proposal is to explain the ideology in a very powerful way. To explain all the mosaics, and they are different images. If they are all presented in a very objective and critical way, this will give an understanding of the whole period. And there are aspects like the culture and the role of the women in this period that can be explained to the public.  In the underground levels, they can be a gallery that explains the history of the monument itself. Starting with the history of the place, the planning process, the construction, which was amazing achievement. Also how the building was used, why it was abandoned, how it was destroyed, and hopefully, how it was preserved.  The proposal works for me because it uses the space as it is. The building was built as a gathering space — and in addition to the interpretive elements, Ivanova envisions that the interior atrium, which seats about 400 people, can still be used for cultural and scientific events.   Dora Ivanova: The only thing I would like to add to this building is a glass outside elevator that can bring the visitors to the top of the tower. There is a 70 meters tower on the top of the mountain and there is a wonderful view from there. This is the only addition. I really strive to keep it intact. This is a proposal to add an observation deck to the top of the spire. From there, people could enjoy the wonderful view.]  The Project which began as Ivanova’s master’s thesis seems to be gaining steam. Ivanova says that she has come to the conclusion that the best way to save Buzludzha is  to harness the interest of the site that comes from outside Bulgaria. Just recently, the site has been recognized by Europa Nostra – Europe’s leading heritage preservation organization, as one of the seven most endangered heritage sites in europe.  Dora Ivanova: And with this, it’s a win, actually. A rescue mission of European experts that will come to Bulgaria and will make a report and expertise us about the building and how it can be preserved. It is very important is to do a structural survey and a business plan and we need finances for that. But of course, all of this is at a very high political level and it is a political decision and I really hope it can be resolved soon.   The site is truly amazing, even as a ruin. But I really want to visit the Buzludzha that Ivonva proposed. Bulgaria doesn’t have an intertrprive museum that explains the year of Socialism. I can think of no better place to put it than in one of that periods most daring symbols right in the heart of the country.  Dora Ivanova: I guess I was inspired by Berlin, which is the city of dark history, the city of division and of the Second World War and the cold war. We have all the evidences here. What if Berlin decides to demolish all that and to say it never happened? I think that is not a good solution. I am very inspired by the way they present that for education and how people are first knowing their past and second presenting it to the others. And this attracts so many tourists and this makes Berlin what it is now. I really would like to take this attitude of knowing, understanding, educating, and try to implement such a project in Bulgaria where, it is a difficult past, and it is traumatic for many people, it is still memory and not history, but now is the time to action before the evidence is demolished and until people still remember it and still can write history from a personal view. Buzludzha can be this place. It is already the place that shows the problem. It think and I hope that it can become the place that shows the solution of the problem.   You can find more about the Buzludzha Project Foundation, and see the pictures of what it is now, and renderings of what it might look like, at buzludzha-monument.com/project.  [Outro]

High in the Bulgarian mountains, Buzludzha monument is deteriorating. Commemorating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitar_Blagoev" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">early Bulgarian Marxists</a>, it was designed to emphasize <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7I65bs_HH4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the power and modernity of the Bulgarian Communist Party</a>. Buzludzha is now at the center of a debate over how <a href="http://www.buzludzha-monument.com/archives/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bulgaria remembers its past</a>. Some people want to destroy it, some people want to restore it to its former glory, but Bulgarian architect Dora Ivanova <a href="http://www.bta.bg/en/c/NW/id/1215789" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">has a better idea</a>. Ivanova wants to turn it into a museum, and she founded <a href="http://www.buzludzha-monument.com/project/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Buzludzha Project Foundation</a> to do exactly that.  In this episode, Ivanova describes how the city of Berlin inspired her plan for the preservation of Buzludzha, how to preserve the past without glorifying it, and <a href="http://www.buzludzha-monument.com/news/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the next steps to making her plan a reality</a>. <h3>Topics Discussed</h3>00:00 Intro 00:15 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7I65bs_HH4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buzludzha's Opening Ceremony</a> 01:04 Buzludzha Today 01:38 Buzludzha As Propaganda 02:00 <a href="http://www.bta.bg/en/c/NW/id/1215789" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dora Ivanova</a> 02:20 <a href="http://www.buzludzha-monument.com/archives/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The Cathedral of Socialism"</a> 02:45 Ian's Buzludzha Visit 03:30 <a href="http://www.buzludzha-monument.com/project/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ivanova on Perserving Buzludzha</a> 04:22 <a href="http://museumarchipelago.com/index" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What To Do With Old Monuments</a> 04:59 <a href="http://www.buzludzha-monument.com/project/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ivanova's Museum Proposal</a> 06:20 Tower Elevator 07:05 Next Steps 07:56 Inspiration From The City of Berlin 09:22 <a href="http://www.buzludzha-monument.com/project/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Buzludzha Project Foundation</a> 09:37 Outro - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/museumarchipelago" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join Club Archipelago</a> Museum Archipelago is a tiny show guiding you through the rocky landscape of museums. 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It’s also a great way to support the show directly. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/museumarchipelago" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join the Club for just $2/month.</a> Your Club Archipelago membership includes: <ul><li>Access to a private podcast that guides you further behind the scenes of museums. Hear interviews, observations, and reviews that don’t make it into the main show;</li> <li>Archipelago at the Movies 🎟️, a bonus bad-movie podcast exclusively featuring movies that take place at museums;</li> <li>Logo stickers, pins and other extras, mailed straight to your door;</li> <li>A warm feeling knowing you’re supporting the podcast.</li> </ul> <h3>Transcript</h3> Below is a transcript of Museum Archipelago episode 47. Museum Archipelago is produced for the ear and the only the audio of the episode is canonical. For more information on the people and ideas in the episode, refer to the links above. View Transcript [Intro] In 1981, on top of a mountain in the middle of Bulgaria, high-ranking members of the Bulgarian communist party gathered to celebrate the opening of a new monument. The monument, called Buzludzha Memorial House, was erected here to commemorate the 90 year anniversary of the first illegal meeting of Bulgarian Marxists. The communist dictator of Bulgaria, Todor Zhivkov, dedicated the monument. [Audio of Zhivkov’s speech in Bulgarian] “Let the pathways leading here, never fall into disrepair,” he said. Of course, it did fall into disrepair. Eight years after opening, Todor Zhivkov was deposed from office by his own party, and soon after the rule of the Bulgarian Communist Party crumbled. Buzludzha is in an eerie state of decay. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s mostly in the shape of a flying saucer — an enormous round disc of concrete. If a particular alien culture had a fetish for brutalism, this would be their spaceport. Rising out of the back of the saucer is a tower, 230 ft high, and flanked by two red stars. The communist party claimed that the red stars, illuminated at night by spotlights, could be seen from as far away as the Romanian border in the north, and the Greek border to the south. <blockquote> Dora Ivanova: It was on purpose built like this. It was built to impress. It was built as part of the political propaganda and education as they called it during this time. It’s shape looks like a UFO, actually. This is also on purpose because it had to show how the socialist idea is contemporary, it’s the future. </blockquote> This is Dora Ivanova. <blockquote> Dora Ivanova: Hello, my name is Dora Ivanova, and I am the founder of the Buzledzha Project Foundation, which aims to preserve the Buzludzha monument. The first time I visited Buzledga was in 2014. I was amazed. It’s a really powerful place. It felt like being in a cathedral. The cathedral of socialism, I’ll call it. I found that it is in not that bad condition, that it can still be saved. I was thinking that it is defiantly worth saving. But later, with my next visits, I got more sad and sadder about the condition. Seeing every time that the condition of the construction is worse and worse, it is really hard for me. </blockquote> I visited Buzledzha in the summer of 2018. The glass is gone from its windows, the red stars have been shot at and smashed, and there are worrying holes in the concrete structure. The monument has been left to decay — mostly sitting in limbo as the Bulgarian socialist party and the Bulgarian government argue over what to do with it. The only new development was that in January of 2018, a guard has been posted at the site to prevent people from entering and seeing the atrium or the crumbling socialist mosaics inside. He said he was not allowed to do an interview. Both Ivanova and I are too young to have lived under Socialism in Bulgaria directly. My association with that period of time has been almost exclusively with the old monuments scattered around the country. <blockquote> Dora Ivanova: In my opinion, the building should be preserved in its present condition. It defiantly should not be restored. To restore it would restore its meaning, and for many people it means to restore the glory of the socialist party. And this is defiantly something we don’t want to do. Many other people want it to turn into something different or imagine having a different function. But I think Buzledzha is interesting with what it is, what it stands for, and what it has already. I don’t think we need to put additional meaning or function to it. If we explain what is already there, if we explain the history which is behind this structure, this is the most powerful and meaningful solution. </blockquote> Museum Archipelago has explored the theme of what to do with these old monuments before, particularly monuments that are symbols of repressive ideologies. Episodes 5 and 35, about Stalinworld in Lithuania and The Museum of Socialist Art in the Bulgaria deal with these issues directly. But Buzledza is such an extreme example, and the debate around it, as far as I have heard, ether centers around completely destroying it or returning it to its former glory. Ivanova has a different idea. After visiting for the first time, she knew that she wanted to devote her Master’s thesis to an in-depth proposal to transform the site into a museum. <blockquote> Dora Ivanova: My proposal is to explain the ideology in a very powerful way. To explain all the mosaics, and they are different images. If they are all presented in a very objective and critical way, this will give an understanding of the whole period. And there are aspects like the culture and the role of the women in this period that can be explained to the public. In the underground levels, they can be a gallery that explains the history of the monument itself. Starting with the history of the place, the planning process, the construction, which was amazing achievement. Also how the building was used, why it was abandoned, how it was destroyed, and hopefully, how it was preserved. </blockquote> The proposal works for me because it uses the space as it is. The building was built as a gathering space — and in addition to the interpretive elements, Ivanova envisions that the interior atrium, which seats about 400 people, can still be used for cultural and scientific events. <blockquote> Dora Ivanova: The only thing I would like to add to this building is a glass outside elevator that can bring the visitors to the top of the tower. There is a 70 meters tower on the top of the mountain and there is a wonderful view from there. This is the only addition. I really strive to keep it intact. This is a proposal to add an observation deck to the top of the spire. From there, people could enjoy the wonderful view.] </blockquote> The Project which began as Ivanova’s master’s thesis seems to be gaining steam. Ivanova says that she has come to the conclusion that the best way to save Buzludzha is to harness the interest of the site that comes from outside Bulgaria. Just recently, the site has been recognized by Europa Nostra – Europe’s leading heritage preservation organization, as one of the seven most endangered heritage sites in europe. <blockquote> Dora Ivanova: And with this, it’s a win, actually. A rescue mission of European experts that will come to Bulgaria and will make a report and expertise us about the building and how it can be preserved. It is very important is to do a structural survey and a business plan and we need finances for that. But of course, all of this is at a very high political level and it is a political decision and I really hope it can be resolved soon. </blockquote> The site is truly amazing, even as a ruin. But I really want to visit the Buzludzha that Ivonva proposed. Bulgaria doesn’t have an intertrprive museum that explains the year of Socialism. I can think of no better place to put it than in one of that periods most daring symbols right in the heart of the country. <blockquote> Dora Ivanova: I guess I was inspired by Berlin, which is the city of dark history, the city of division and of the Second World War and the cold war. We have all the evidences here. What if Berlin decides to demolish all that and to say it never happened? I think that is not a good solution. I am very inspired by the way they present that for education and how people are first knowing their past and second presenting it to the others. And this attracts so many tourists and this makes Berlin what it is now. I really would like to take this attitude of knowing, understanding, educating, and try to implement such a project in Bulgaria where, it is a difficult past, and it is traumatic for many people, it is still memory and not history, but now is the time to action before the evidence is demolished and until people still remember it and still can write history from a personal view. Buzludzha can be this place. It is already the place that shows the problem. It think and I hope that it can become the place that shows the solution of the problem. </blockquote> You can find more about the Buzludzha Project Foundation, and see the pictures of what it is now, and renderings of what it might look like, at <a href="http://buzludzha-monument.com/project" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">buzludzha-monument.com/project</a>. [Outro]

47. Buzludzha is Deteriorating. Dora Ivanova Wants To Turn It Into A Museum.