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Dictatorships and totalitarianisms, whatever their political orientation, exercise as authoritarian regimes -without doubt- control on the spaces dedicated to “Knowledge”. Culture and education,whether on the juveline, school or university level,areperceived as power. For that reason, the approach to this is controlled, measured, programmed and ideologically systematized by the political system through educational policies, architecture and art, aesthetics and symbolism of their political ideology. Nevertheless, and at the same time, a good part of the European, African, Asian and American dictatorships have opted to provide new urban infrastructures for the future “Knowledge” of their nations (Schools, Museums, Libraries, High Schools, Academies, Universities). This thematic session wishes to highlight the complexity and plurality of the architectural and urbanistic discourse and application concerning education and culture and to do so within a comparative perspective between the different forms of political regimes, dictatorships and totalitarianisms.

We welcome papers that:

• Work on aspects of the urban and architectural space associated with the dissemination of knowledge in totalitarian regimes such aslibraries, schools, universities, etc.
• Address the political importance of the urban framing of public spaces of knowledge or culture.
• Review urban planning and museums in dictatorships.
• Establish differences and analogies between democratic and totalitarian urbanism associated to Culture and Knowledge during the same period.

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• Spokesperson: Katerina Chatzikonstantinou, University of Thessaly
• Co-organizer(s): David Martín  López, University of Granada
• Keywords: Totalitarianism | Urbanism of “Knowledge" | Politics of space
• Time period: Modern period
• Topic(s): Architecture and urbanism | Political
• Study area: More than one continent