The Legacy of East Germany's Prefab Housing Blocks Is More Relevant

The story is about an art exhibit, which has those housing blocks as its theme. But more relevant to the 99.99%, who aren't actually interested in that little niche of the art world:

> “It’s about the ‘slab’ or prefab as a place and memory of living, as a symbol of social utopias and as a canvas for social change,” says Kito Nedo, the curator of the exhibition at the Minsk gallery in Potsdam, itself an important architectural monument of the so-called Ostmodern, which narrowly escaped demolition after local protests.

> “The biggest question in the room, more relevant than ever in Germany and cities across Europe, is how to create affordable, quality housing,” Nedo adds. “The housing plan of the GDR was an historic attempt to address this question. It’s one politicians are called on to find an answer to today.”