BigA_Spaces for Beauty: Nature-Community-Architecture
March – October 2016
Curators: Maciej Hawrylak, Daria Kieżun, Sylwia Sikora
Organiser: SARP Wrocław
More details at: www.wroclaw.sarp.org.pl/pl/duze_a/
Lectures to be delivered by excellent Polish and foreign architects and urban planners, including workshops with their participation. The main subject matter of this project edition will be the role of culture in the creation of public/private space, perceived as places where attitudes and identities of local communities receive their substance. The cycle has been divided into three panels (Nature – Community – Architecture), each to be devoted to a separate problem and, under the workshop activities, tested in the chosen location.
The Wrocław Division of the Association of Polish Architects (SARP Wrocław) would like to invite you to a special edition of the BigA project, namely a cycle of lectures and workshops to be delivered by foreign and Polish architects and urban planners of international renown, elaborating upon significant problems of global architecture and studying them on the local basis. The focal point for the cycle organised as a part of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 agenda, under the “Spaces for Beauty: Nature – Community – Architecture” programme, will be the role of culture in the creation of public, private, semi-public and semi-private space, comprising places where attitudes and identities of local communities receive their substance.
We intend to demonstrate that a city is not a collection of individual built features, but rather a comprehensive spatial environment where architecture, nature and society jointly form a balanced structure or interdependences and links. Therefore, the 2016 edition of the cycle will be divided into three panels (Nature – Community – Architecture), each to be devoted to a separate problem and the chosen location of special cultural and community-building potential. The panels will comprise lectures to be delivered by architects of international renown as well as practical design workshops tutored by true authorities in individual fields, where participants divided into groups (composed by professionals and students), supported by the foreign tutors, will attempt to develop conceptual guidelines for the chosen district of Wrocław. The guests invited to take part in these events include: JDS – Julien De Smedt, Work AC, Günther Vogt, Kees Christiaanse, Lacaton & Vassal and Hani Rashid. The BigA project will be of open, year-long format, to be implemented from February to October 2016.
Subjects of the lectures:
NATURE (March - April 2016)
The nature present in a city ensures experiences and impressions which define the multi-layered identity of the place. Natural environment defines, complements and humanises the space for living. Solving problems emerging at the point of clash between the human space and the realm of nature adds life to the urban bloodstream and tissue.
The Nature cycle:
7 March 2016 (City on the River) for more information about the event, click HERE
29 March 2016 (Green City) for more information about the event, click HERE
4 April 2016 (Urban Farms) for more information about the event, click HERE
COMMUNITY (May - July 2016)
A community is formed by users of the public space and architecture, as they complement and mould them. Smartly designed space builds an engaged community and improves the functioning of cities. Public space plays a crucial role in the development of social and emotional bonds as well as in satisfying specific needs.
The Community cycle:
9 May 2016 (A venue for local community meetings) for more information about the event, click HERE
13 June 2016 (City for Pedestrians) for more information about the event, click HERE
July 2016 (A place to meet art) for more information about the event, click HERE
ARCHITECTURE (August - October 2016)
Architecture is a means to mould the environment in a more controlled manner, as compared with nature and society. Changing residential and living conditions in the city determine the picture of contemporary reality, but also paint visions of the future urbanised matter. Consequently also the value of the “beautiful vs. not beautiful” criterion is redefined.
The Architecture cycle:
29 August 2016 (Living In a City) for more information about the event, click HERE
19 September 2016 (Spaces (not) of beauty) for more information about the event, click HERE
10 October 2016 (Future Now) for more information about the event, click HERE
The BigA project will be accompanied by exhibitions presenting the overall body of works of the foreign guests as well as a publication containing the authors’ individual design-related concepts and overviews of the lecturers’ creative output.
Text by: SARP Wrocław
The project is delivered as a part of the architecture programme of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016, and it is co-funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under administration of the National Forum of Music. The project is implemented in collaboration with the Impart 2016 Festival Office, being the organiser of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 celebration events.
Organiser: SARP Wrocław
Co-organisers: Impart 2016 Festival Office, National Forum of Music
Co-funded by: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Strategic partner: KGHM Polska Miedź
