Nowa Huta

COMPENDIUM

We will be compiling a compendium for each city- this will not be exhaustive not a case of stockpiling as much as possible but selecting and finding the unexpected, the interesting, the bizarre and the essential. You may like to think of this as a compendium of ‘useful and non-useful knowledge’ - or the studio’s Enyclopaedia of Interdependence. The categories that we set provisionally are there for guidance and can be changed. The best way to go about it would be to find/write/draw short sentences or paragraphs, diagrams, photos or illustration for each entry. We need to decide as a group what kind of information is needed by the studio and what the best way to present the information will be- Should we organise it as a WIKi and get other people to contribute/exchange information? Could we just add entries to the consecutive blog or do we need a website with alphabetical entries and links?

FOOD

what do I eat?
agriculture, livestock, traditions…
Pete M, Tom G

WASTE

where does the mess go?
maintenance, infrastructure…
James, Paul

CLIMATE

what’s the weather like?
weather, disaster, pollution, proverbs…
Pete J, Tom R

TOPOGRAPHY

how does the land lie?
geology, landscape, settlements…
Kim, Ryan

OWNERSHIP

who owns this?
human/land rights, trade, pop culture, identity…
Rosie, Kirsten

POLITICS

what does this stand for?
demographics, history, change, migration…
Melanie, Sarah

NOWA HUTA FOOD

NOWA HUTA WASTE

NOWA HUTA CLIMATE

NOWA HUTA TOPOGRAPHY

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NOWA HUTA OWNERSHIP


DOG - Mapping interactions in Nowa Huta (DV, 3½ mins, 2007)
This stray dog spends his days roaming the cold lonely courtyard of Centrum estate, Block C. He sees other dogs walking with their owners, and he wishes he had an owner.

 

Pop culture: Nearby Krakow is host to many music events, cabarets, nightclubs… Nowa Huta has one (VERY traditional/tourist orientated) home grown music group:

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 http://www.nck.krakow.pl/nowahuta/index1.html

and occasionally plays host to others:

“The final concert of the festival BERNSTEIN. BROADWAY IN NOWA HUTA (West Side Story - On the Town - Wonderful Town - Candide), directed by Konrad Imiela will be organised, as always, in the post-industrial space of one of the hangers of ArcelorMittal Poland, Krakow Branch (former T. Sendzimir Steel Mill). The spectacle will include songs from the most well known musicals of Leonard Bernstein sung by Polish music stars  “

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http://sacrumprofanum.pl/2006/galeria2006.html

NOWA HUTA POLITICS


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About

Studio Six, MArch School of Architecture,

University of Sheffield

The work of  Studio Six is linked to the Interdependence Day project, (www.interdependenceday.co.uk)

launched in 2006 to reinvigorate sustainability debates and to question some of the technocratic outcomes of seeing ecological and economic concerns as an accounting or ‘problem solving’ challenge.

What can architecture contribute to this attempt to reconsider global, economic and environmental issues?

Interdependent understanding invites an architecture rooted in creativity and metaphor, which ‘listens’ to the potential of a city rather than imposing mark marketable criteria of enterprise, lifestyle or efficiency. This architecture is based on conversations between the city and its varied inhabitants, and in an awareness of its social, economic and ecological metabolism.

The interdependencies of a place may be understood as a particularly dynamic and complex constellation of social, economic and emotional relations, but the term also has ambitions for a sense of a place that is extroverted and unexpected. Interdependence includes a consciousness of links with the wider world integrating in a positive way the near and far, the local and the global, the human and the ecological.

The studio will instigate alternative modes of architectural collaboration, representation, and communication that are more open and amateur rather than specialised or expert. We will be exploring an architecture of ‘making-do’ and of ‘provisional construction’.

The studio has been exploring the ’steel cities’ of Nowa Huta and Sheffield but we have also been thinking about other cities, about state responsibility, about carnival, about pigeons…     Renata Tyszczuk

 

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