Work submitted for the competition
"Best Diploma Architecture".
The work takes up the subject of borders and divisions in the broadest sense, historically and socially. The starting element is the now defunct Polish-German border, which divided the Upper Silesian territories between 1922 and 1939.
situation
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Delineated arbitrarily by the Council of the League of Nations, it ran haphazardly and illogically in many places, dividing towns, industrial plants and critical infrastructure. The division also brutally divided people, families and neighbors, contributing to the emergence of hostility, envy, antagonism in society, undeniably affected the formation of the identity of the inhabitants of Upper Silesia.
A cross-section through the Makoszowy heap and dialog-forming landscape integration
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The work is intended to tell how borders, walls, divisions can change people and the world, and how important it is to cultivate the memory of history, building a culture of cross-border and interpersonal dialogue. Building a culture of dialogue is particularly important in the case of areas with a difficult history, border areas, multicultural, multinational areas, where, due to political circumstances and historical complexities, there have been, or still are, historical misrepresentations over the years, where the historical narrative is a political tool, where conflicts and antagonisms have accrued.
visualization
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The project of Dialogue Landscape Interventions with the House of Dialogue on the Makoszowy heap assumes the creation of a space where the memory of the history of the region, including the border from the interwar period, will be cultivated, where the stories of ordinary people, residents of the border area, will be told, and above all, where the culture of cross-border and interpersonal dialogue will be promoted and built.
macro, meso and micro scale
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The project is being implemented at three design scales with varying degrees of detail. The macro scale provides for interventions and local activities in the area of the Silesian agglomeration, delineated on the basis of the valorization of the areas of the course of the non-existent Polish-German border. The second level of detailing of the project (meso scale) focuses on the area of the Makoszowy waste heap, where the Polish-German border passed through and where dialogue-forming landscape interventions will be implemented. The last and at the same time the third project scale, the micro scale, is realized through the detailed facility of the House of Dialogue, where activities promoting the history of the region and cultural dialogue will be carried out.
plans of the House of Dialogue
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Jadwiga MAŁECKA-FICK
Illustrations: © Author
