vaida.navickiene[at]vda.lt
Art Critic
Research interests: history and modernity of Lithuanian architecture; history and archival studies of photography; cultural heritage studies, art therapy.
She has a degree in Art History (BA and MA) from Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of Arts. Since 2006 Doctor of Arts in the field of humanities (field of art history), having defended her dissertation "Kaunas Cityscape Photography in 1861-1969". Editor-in-Chief of the professional magazine "Archiforma" (2006-2011). Associate professor at the Kaunas Faculty of the Vilnius Academy of Arts: lecturer, director of research activities of postgraduate students; represents the Academy in the joint LSMU and VAA postgraduate study programme "Art Therapy".
Project and Organisational Activities
Project member of the international project ArtDiCo (Art, Digitality and Corona KA2274319D26B; Erasmus + Strategic Partnerships, KA2 programme); 2020-2023.
The Art Therapy Society "TerapiArta" is one of the founders. 2022 m.
Member of the local organising committee of the ECARTE (European Consortium for Arts Therapies Education) international scientific conference "Memory: Shaping Connections in the Arts Therapies" (VU, LMTA, LSMU, VDA); 2022.
Member of the architectural working group for the Lithuanian Council for Culture project "Modeling System for Monitoring and Analysis of Culture and Art Projects and Processes"; 2020.
Member of the group for the preparation of the nomination file for the inscription of Kaunas modernist architecture on the UNESCO World Heritage List; 2018.
Head of the international project "Creative Platform: MIR + Lithuania" supported by the CC; 2017.
Scientific modern analysis of research topic; Values and valuation as key factors in protection, conservation and contemporary use of heritage - a collaborative research of European cultural heritage: SMART VALUE. Status: researcher; 2014-2016.
Project of updating the website of the Kaunas branch of the Lithuanian Union of Architects and creation of an original rubric "Science and Art Projects"; 2015.
Project of publishing iconographic data and sources of architectural history on the Internet: "Architecture and Urbanism Research Centre website (www.autc.lt)". Project researcher, (implementing institution: KTU ASI); 2010-2013.
Promotion of creative industries by raising scientific and practical competences of art researchers in master's studies". Measure 2.5 "Improving the quality of human resources in research and innovation"; BPD2004-ESF-2.5.0-03-05/0053; developer of the methodological tool. 2007.
Research Papers
Eglė Navickienė, Vaida Almonaitytė Navickienė, Communicative Proactivity in Architectural Initiatives Supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Landscape Architecture and Art, LV, 2022.
Vaida Almonaitytė Navickienė, Cityscape Photography at the End of the 19th Century: a Case Study of Kaunas. The National Museum of Lithuania, 2022.
Vaida Almonaitytė Navickienė, "The Chapel of the Hill of Crosses". Kn. Lithuanian Sacred Art, Vol. 2, Šiauliai Diocese. D. 2, Šiauliai Deanery. Book 2, Kairiai-Kurtuvėnai. Sud. Regimanta Stankevičienė et al. (Vilnius, Lithuanian Culture History Research Institute, 2020), p. 130-131.
Vaida Almonaitytė Navickienė, Regimanta Stankevičienė, "Kuršėnai Šv. Architecture of the Church of St. John the Baptist and Churchyard Buildings". Kn. Lithuanian Sacred Art, Vol. 2, Šiauliai Diocese. D. 2, Šiauliai Deanery. Book 2, Kairiai-Kurtuvėnai. Sud. Regimanta Stankevičienė et al. (Vilnius, Lithuanian Culture History Research Institute, 2020), p. 196-219.
Vaida Almonaitytė Navickienė, "Franciscan Monastery of the Hill of Crosses with the Chapel of the Receiving of the Stigmata of St. Francis". Kn. Lithuanian Sacred Art, Vol. 2, Šiauliai Diocese. D. 2, Šiauliai deanery. Book 2, Kairiai-Kurtuvėnai. Sud. Regimanta Stankevičienė et al. (Vilnius, Lithuanian Culture History Research Institute, 2020), p. 131-135.
Vaida Almonaitytė-Navickienė et al. The Work of Architect Alfredas Paulauskas, 2018. Kaunas: Regrafas, 148 p. ISBN 978-609-95041-2-4.
Almonaitytė-Navickienė, Vaida. The Work of Architect Algimantas Sprindys, 2014. Kaunas: Kopa, 120 p. ISBN 978-9955-772-72-9.
Heritage Traces, Sud. Vaida Almonaitytė-Navickienė, Vilnius: Savastis, 2017. ISBN 978-609-8223-00-2.
In Pursuit of the Heritage and Place Synergy: The Environmental Impact of Panemunė Castle as a Heritage Porperty and Entirety of Values. Bridging Rheories, Strategies and Practices in Valuing Cultural Heritage, 2017, p. 59-120. ISBN 978-88-6056-530-3.
Almonaitytė-Navickienė, Vaida. Narrative of the Family Album, in. Women of Officers' Families in the 3-4th Decade of the 20th century. Compiled by Vytenis Almonaitis and Junona Almonaitienė. Kaunas, 2016, p. 11-13. ISBN 978-609-8063-11-0.
Vaida Ščiglienė, Vaida Almonaitytė-Navickienė, Kristina Daubarytė, Ieva Kuizinienė, Angelė Čepėnaitė / The Environmental Impact of Panemune Castle as a Heritage Object and a Set of Values for the Purpose of Achieving the Synergy of the Site. Study, in: Culture Monuments, Savastis, Vilnius, 2017. Vol. 21. ISSN 1392-155X.
Almonaitytė-Navickienė, Vaida / Public buildings of the 20th century in Lithuania: problems of value, Culture Monuments, Savastis, Vilnius, 2016, Vol. 20, p. 19-31. ISBN 978-9986-420-88-0.
Almonaitytė-Navickienė, Vaida / Problems Regarding Valuable Characteristics of 20th-Century Public Buildings in Lithuania / How to Assess Built Heritage? Assumptions, Methodologies, Examples of Heritage Assessment Systems, International Scientific Committee for Theory and Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration ICOMOS, 2015, p. 47-62. ISBN 978-83-940280-3-9.
Petras and Alfonsas Januliai / Edited by V. Almonaitytė-Navickienė. Kaunas, 2011, 144 p.: illustrated. ISBN 978-9955-772-27-9.
