Grand Prize
category: theoretical master's thesis
PLN 10,000
author
HannaKraś
title
"Psycho-social ethics of designing residential neighborhoods"
university
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Faculty of Visual Culture Management
promoter
dr hab. Jan Sowa
Jury opinion
Ms. Hanna Kraś, M.A., approaching the problem of the city as a special kind of common good, locates her research on the ethical aspects of the disposition of this good, so that it takes into account the current duties of this area of design and, consequently, can serve all its users, their needs and expectations. In answering the question of what psychosocial design ethics is, the author confronts the strategies developed and practiced in cooperative thought in the 20th century and today. This is one of the key themes of the work, which the author analyzes using the example of two key realizations for this reason, two Warsaw urban assumptions, which are separated by the time of their creation, revealing the complexity, ethical approach to housing problems. The first is WSN in Żoliborz, a model avant-garde housing estate, pre-1939, implementing leftist programmatic and ideological assumptions; the second is the exclusive Marina 1 and Marina housing estate in Warsaw's Mokotów district, created 7 decades later, which is the quintessential developer of late capitalism, with its overriding value of individual ownership and profit. Both of these housing estates are case studies, confronting the ethical meaning of common space a century ago, with its reevaluations today, which are taking place under the influence of socio-cultural changes, the author reveals the dissimilarity and variability in the understanding of ethics over time of the creation and disposal of space as a superior good. The work is based on a well-chosen and critically reworked literature, methodologically represents an interdisciplinary approach, citing the issue at hand in comparison with contemporary cultural and sociological studies andengages the context of the so-called tragedy of the common pasture, and drawing on the method of drift (dèrive) developed by the Situationists, for which the study by Chombat "de Lauwe "a ("Paris et l "agglomeration parisienne", 1952) is canonical, where it is noted that "the urban neighborhood is determined not only by geographic and economic factors, but also by the perceptions held by its inhabitants and those who inhabit other neighborhoods."
Considering the cognitive values of the dissertation, the work was unanimously highly praised by the jury of the 5th edition of the competition, winning the Grand Prix.
