SYNCHRONICITY_Warsaw

two exhibitions to be held in warsaw, in format of two

Our exhibition’s main idea is to show to Warsaw public- from simple every-day bred consumers , through planners, to local politicians that working on the vision requires a confrontation and openness towards different perspectives not necessarily belonging to the standard range of tools used in municipal planning. The perspective can be large, intentional, subversive, analytical or intuitive and it’s main value is the one of a daring, uncastrated thought that embraces the future instead of fearing it.

1. No Hear No See

13 projects by different world architects elaborated or chosen from previous work on basis of ignorance and sensations on Warsaw actual situation instead of deep, multilayer analysis. The projects were published in “W (is for Warsaw)” book by Fundacja Bęc Zmiana.

2. Deep Submergence

Three projects by Centrala Designer’s Task Force (Warsaw), S’A Arquitectos + Esestudio (Lisbon/ Barcelona) and by RaumLabor (Berlin) collective starting with a hipothesis and leading towards clearly expressed conclusions,

SYNCHRONICITY_Warsaw

Exhibition on ideas of future Warsaw

Curator: Jakub Szczęsny (Centrala / www.centrala.net.pl)

Organizer: Fundacja Bęc Zmiana / www.funbec.eu

Project is supported by the City of Warsaw

Partner: Goethe-Institut Warschau

Warsaw is one of the biggest capitals of New Europe. It’s problematic past is still visible not only in the dysfunctional city structure. What is even more characteristic is an obvious lack of dynamism and vision in the municipal policy observed from the beginning of liberalization in Poland. The city seems to be paralyzed by the syncope of political elections, an impossibility of continuing any long-term plans and an obvious myopia of local authorities when it comes to the evaluation of Warsaw’s potential. Lack of vision doesn’t show only in the elaboration and execution of masterplans, it’s other side is the lack of idea “what” Warsaw should become, what are this city’s ambitions, how Warsaw should be perceived and marketed.

Our exhibition’s main idea is to show to Warsaw public- from simple every-day bred consumers , through planners, to local politicians that working on the vision requires a confrontation and openness towards different perspectives not necessarily belonging to the standard range of tools used in municipal planning. The perspective can be large, intentional, subversive, analytical or intuitive and it’s main value is the one of a daring, uncastrated thought that embraces the future instead of fearing it.

For this reason we will confront ideas on Warsaw’s future approached by fifteen entities from Asia, Americas, Europe and Australia. Some of them were prepared for different locations (Philadelphia, Seoul, Madrid) and represent examples of what was, according to it’s creators, a most appropriate answer to Warsaw problems. Another group is composed out of projects prepared especially for the Polish capital, but still basing on a vague idea of Warsaw. The third group will be composed out of three projects starting from a hipothesis and developed through analytical work. This way we will show both instinctive and analytical approach.

THE STRUCTURE:

The exhibition will be composed out of two opposed design approaches:

1. No Hear No See

13 projects by different world architects elaborated or chosen from previous work on basis of ignorance and sensations on Warsaw actual situation instead of deep, multilayer analysis. The projects were published in “W (is for Warsaw)” book by Fundacja Bęc Zmiana.

2. Deep Submergence

Three projects by Centrala Designer’s Task Force (Warsaw), S’A Arquitectos + Esestudio (Lisbon/ Barcelona) and by RaumLabor (Berlin) collective starting with a hipothesis and leading towards clearly expressed conclusions, where the visual realism is less important than a direct and convincing representation of analytical outcome. Due to time limitations the projects will allow a “deep submergence” into only one chosen field of research as base for the vision development. The research fields can be: social, economical, ecological, geopolitical, historical, climatic or geographic.

LOCATION:

The exhibition will take place in two spaces:

- Installation in the public space serving as a kind of a teaser attracting the passers-by to the gallery (to be located in the empty space between the arches of the western elevation of the Constitution Square and the Line of bus-stops)

- Internal exhibition in the Info Qultura gallery composed out of large size prints of project and schemes, video projections of animated visual material and (possibly) out of three-dimensional maquettes