We invite you to a series of events accompanying the exhibition entitled. "I'M NOT HERE. The human dimension of architecture" taking place at the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw. Invited guests will consider whether there is an ideal model of habitation, what are the alternative ways and with what it is possible to meet all housing needs?
"Block #4 | roof over your head" is a series of six meetings - online lectures. Having one' s own "M" is associated with the absence of randomness, a sense of security, the possibility of personalizing the interior, taming and marking it with one's own personality. However, proponents of other modes of residence value flexibility, lack of anchorage and long-term commitments....
So is there an ideal model? What about alternative modes of habitation? Is it possible to meet all housing needs in our environment?
Invited guests:
- Anna Cymer,
- Dorota Jarodzka-Srodka,
- Kazimierz Srodka,
- Anna Fluder,
- Agata Twardoch,
- Iwona Borowik,
- Adam Mańczak,
- Agnieszka Labus,
- Natalia Fiedorczuk-Cieślak,
- Jan Śpiewak,
- Michal Duda,
- Tomasz Piątek.
"History of Blocks. When did our world divide into neighborhoods?"
The series of events opens with a lecture by Anna Cymer. Le Corbusier and the great slab, the Athens Charter and block housing, Bauhaus, Superjednostka, point-blocks and cage blocks - we associate many buzzwords with the blocks of flats in which most Polish women and men still live. Just as some prefer e-books, others read only paper books, some live well in housing estates, others wouldn't last a moment in a block of flats. Large housing complexes - like it or not - shape the landscape of our cities to a large extent, and thus the way they function and the way we live. Do we know where the apartment blocks actually came from, what ideas were behind the creation of the first ones, what they were supposed to give, what they were supposed to change? What did the first housing estates look like and does much of those pioneering ideas remain with us today?
calendar of events
- June 30 this year at 6 pm - "History of Blocks. When did our world divide into settlements?", lecture
- July 13 this year, 12.00 pm - "Instead of a vernissage", guided tour of the exhibition,
- July 25 this year, 12.00 pm - "What values in urban planning and architecture defended themselves during the pandemic?"
- August 8 this year, 12:00 pm - "Restored to life", a walk with architects through the Wroclaw Breweries
- August 18 this year. 12.00 - "Social responsibility of the architect", a talk
- August 25 this year. 12.00 - "If not ownership, then what?", a debate.
All events will be available online at "Block #4 | roof overhead".
