The project brings together academic and research institutions from four countries:
- National Archives of Hungary (Lead Partner, Hungary)
Prof. Tamáska Máté: tertar.kotetek@gmail.com
HU – Máté Tamáska (Budapest, 1976) is an architectural sociologist, Chief Archivist, and Professor of Higher Education. His research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century urbanization and its spatial manifestations, with particular emphasis on processes of cultural heritage formation. His work primarily concerns cities in Central Europe. He serves as the principal investigator of the Vienna–Budapest comparative urban research project and is the organizer of the Vienna-based conference Ring Roads and Urban Growth.
Exhibition Design: Mariann Kovács
Organisation: Expats Management kft and Réka Szűcs-Csécsei (MNL), Eszter Kiliti Szőnyeine (MNL)
Web design: Tamás Baricsa (MNL)
- Brno University of Technology – Faculty of Civil Engineering, Institute of Architecture (Czechia)
Ing. Adam Guzdek: Adam.Guzdek@vut.cz
CZ – Dr. Adam Guzdek graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Brno University of Technology. Since 2012, he has led his own architectural practice focused primarily on contemporary architecture and the restoration of historic buildings. Since 2017, he has been affiliated with the Institute of Architecture at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, where he heads the Studio of Heritage Conservation and serves as guarantor of teaching in the field of restoration and cultural heritage protection; since 2022, he has also organized the conference Landscape Settlement Heritage at the faculty. He is long-term engaged in the popularization and preservation of architecture of the second half of the 20th century, among other activities as a founding member of the association Důl architektury, which contributed to saving the Havířov railway station from demolition.
- Technical University in Košice – Faculty of Arts (Slovakia)
Dr. Jan Sekán: jan.sekan@tuke.sk
SK -Dr. Jan Sekan graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University in Budapest (1982), postgradual studies in Monument protection at the Czech Technical University in Prague (1987). PhD. degree received at Slovak Technical University in Bratislava (2019). Works as a freelance architect and a part-time teacher at the Department of Architecture of the Technical University in Košice. Recent field of research: history of townplanning of Košice. Most important work: Reconstruction of the Hradova castle in Košice – a project for the Košice – European Capitol of Culture 2013, awarded by the Slovak Chamber of Architects.
The research on the city of Košice related to this exhibition was also supported by the KEGA agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic under grant no. 067TUKE-4/2025. Výskum mesta Košíc súvisiaci s touto výstavou podporila aj agentúra KEGA MŠVVaM grantom č. 067TUKE-4/2025.
- Jagiellonian University in Kraków – Department of Modern Polish History (Poland)
Dr. Kamil Ruszała: kamil.ruszala@uj.edu.pl
PL – Dr. Kamil Ruszała (Kraków) is Ass. Professor of Modern History at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His research focuses on the First World War, the Habsburg Monarchy, wartime displacement, refugee camps, and the anthropology of war, with particular attention to post-imperial transformations and cultures of war memory in Central Europe. He is the author of several monographs and edited volumes and has published widely in international journals. He serves as principal investigator of multiple national and international research projects, including The Forgotten Refugee Camps of Austria-Hungary and the international consortium Forging Wartime Biopolitics: Militarized Refugees’ Bodies and Environments in WWI Eastern Europe (BIOFORGEWAR), linking Vienna, Budapest, and Kraków. He is Managing Editor of 1914–1918-Online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War and an active member of international research networks on war, migration, and refugee history.
Exhibition Design: Mariann Kovács
Organisation: Expats Management kft and Réka Szűcs-Csécsei (MNL), Eszter Kiliti Szőnyeine (MNL)
Web design: Tamás Baricsa (MNL)