Zodiac Warsaw Architecture Pavilion invites you to the last online meeting in the series. This time it will be in the form of a deliberation and will be held on the Zoom platform. What are cities like? What do we want them to be? What will be the cities of the future? Maciej Frąckowiak will talk about the risks of defining a city with adjectives.
The meeting with Maciej Frąckowiak will take place tomorrow, June 25, at 18:00 on the Zoom platform. You can sign up for the webinar here. The conversation will also be streamed on Zodiac's YouTube channel.
We want cities to be something - creative, smart, sustainable or resilient. We come up with slogans and adjectives for them. We do this to make them more attractive, to put them in a frame that justifies certain actions, to be able to weave stories that help mobilize efforts toward some goal.
At the last meeting in the series, we will consider the risks inherent in thinking about the city with adjectives. Provocatively, we will try to dream of an ordinary city, a city simply. We'll replace one big buzzword with an alphabet of smaller words, helpful in understanding what happens in such spaces.
Summing up the series in this way, we will return to the Invisible City project, which has recurred several times during the series. Together with the participants, Maciej Frąckowiak will try to understand and explain why it haunts us so much, even though a decade has passed since it began. To what extent can the sensibility and ethics of an ordinary city be derived from the mundane actions of ordinary residents who tailor the city to their own needs and desires?
