Open Call

Międzynarodowy Open Call na projekty młodych twórczyń i twórców, odpowiadające na hasło przewodnie DoFA '22 - Miasto solidarne

Wybrane prace miały odpowiedzieć na jedno z zadanych haseł: Radical Urban Spaces, New Locals, Interspecies Alliances. Odpowiedź mogła przyjąć dowolną formę i środki - wytyczną był sposób prezentacji ograniczający się do jednego kwadratu.

JURY

Michał Duda – dyrektor Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu

Maciej Hawrylak – dyrektor generalny DoFA

Ada Kwiatkowska – przewodnicząca Rady Programowej DoFA

Barbara Nawrocka – kuratorka DoFA `22

Dominika Wilczyńska – kuratorka DoFA `22

NAGRODA_kategoria Radical Urban Spaces / Radykalne Przestrzenie Miejskie

JAZ+Architekci Martyna Kędrzyńska, Anna Kotowska [PL]

Projekt: FEMSKATE MANIFESTO

When thinking about an inclusive public space, we need to think about needs according to factors like age, accessibility, and gender. Many recent studies showed that 80% of public spaces are dominated by boys. Skateparks are places for all teenagers, but they are not used by all. As designers, we have to rethink this familiar space to make it more gender-inclusive.

In June 2022, we created a survey for women and girls who skate and ride on kid scooters, rollerblades or longboards. We asked them how they felt at the skatepark, what they liked about the space, what they missed there, and what ideas they had. The survey was attended by a group of 55 people, consisting of women and girls.

First of all, the majority of girl-respondents admit that it's harder for them to start skateboarding than for boys (50.9%). Only 1.8% said it was easier. This is partly due to poorly designed urban infrastructure, lack of accessibility, and variation in difficulty levels, but also from our beliefs and stereotypes. From the report, we can read the basic needs of female skaters, like good access to public toilets, better lighting, well-organized green spaces, and a good connection to public transportation. Access to more and more diverse seating areas was also emphasized. However, in the end, one the biggest obstacle for female skaters is boys: 41.8% of the girls would be more likely to come to the skatepark if there were no boys to bother them.

Most skateparks only work for half of the community. By creating safe open spaces divided so that no one group can dominate it, we can enrich this community with fem-skateboarders.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics showed that girls are fantastic skateboarders. They are breaking the old rules, not prioritizing competition, but fun and support. As architects, we also need to start breaking the pattern so that common spaces work as a glue of the community, not an obstacle to its formation.

So, talk to girls, learn what they need, and make space for them!

NAGRODA_kategoria New Locals / Nowi_e Mieszkańcy_ki

Unbuilt Office Agata Ruchlewicz-Dzianach, Verónica G.Sotelo [CZ/PL]

Projekt: Potential spaces

Can architecture prevent loneliness? As loneliness has been identified as a new illness, we investigate how we can answer that problem in an architectural language through a feminine perspective.

An important number of people are suffering from solitude in places as crowded as cities. Social isolation or living alone are risk factors for premature death as great as air pollution. Our research is concentrated on potential common spaces in the neighbourhoods beyond what is familiar and comfortable. We’re interested in future spatial solutions that facilitate building a community through individualism understood as an engine to reinvent neighbours’ ties.

In the times of liquid modernity (Bauman) characterized by instability and fragility of bonds, we believe that architecture can bring people together.

With the project “Potential spaces”, through surveys and research, we started an experimental exploration of spatial individual needs and potentially shared spaces. We asked different people around the world about the meaning of sharing domestic spaces with neighbours, the possibilities of transforming the areas of buildings into new social spaces, or exploring the desire to help and offer skills within the neighbourhood.

We think there is a need to ask ourselves again what is private space and public space. Does the division defined long ago still may function properly? Do we have to go beyond the socially constructed norms to refresh the definitions and thus the understanding of space? What could we as architects do on that topic?

With our poster, we would like the attendees of the exhibition to pause and think further about what private space and community life could change into.

NAGRODA_kategoria Interspecies Alliances / Sojusze Międzygatunkowe

Olga Kozłowska [PL]

Projekt: Oikos means home. Citizenship and coexistence between species in cities

In my project I’ve decided to focus on the presence of animals in the cities. I was curious how human architecture and urban planning influences the life and habits of synurbic representatives of fauna. And how we, not only as designers but also as humans, can make their lives easier. Or less dangerous.

The main goal that I’ve set for myself was to start a discussion. A discussion about well thought interventions; about the way we think about cities and their dwellers.

The project that I want to present is part of a bachelor thesis defended at the Faculty of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. It consists of seven design interventions as well as a few others, about urban spaces and landscape architecture.

Each of the projects answers one, or more, of the basic needs, which every truly friendly living place should accommodate - access to food and water; free and safe travel; and access to the shelter. But when designing for urban fauna, designers must consider not only a user, but all of the environment around them. It would be only wishful thinking that animals will use objects that we placed only because we constructed them and put somewhere - anywhere.

After all, nesting boxes for birds are not placed in any location, but after professional ornithological expertise and observation - usually where there are already other nests.

Therefore, a similar principle guided my design activities. Each of the objects received a general spatial context and a specific location on the map of Warsaw, based on observations resulting from my own research and the cited literature.

To sum up the project I created a book consisting of all of the designed interventions and connections between them. Because above all, the most important thing about designing for non-humans is changing the way we perceive ecosystems.

NAGRODA specjalna

Agnieszka Mastalerz, Michał Szaranowicz [PL]

Projekt: SLUICE

In Warsaw, on the East bank of the Vistula, across the river from the Museum of Modern Art, an investment Port Praski (in English: Praga Harbor) is being realized. Between 1885-2012 the area served as a harbor, which was surrounded by rather poor tenement buildings and a green wasteland, there was a slaughterhouse, too. The ambitious emerging housing development should change the place’s aura for a European-class district (the architects even refer to the City of London).

The investment cannot be finished until a water lock is built. In our installation, we would like to touch upon Port Praski and point out the lock’s function — as a mechanism that changes the level of something that goes through it.

For the exposition, we chose a room that contained different levels itself. The space was located in the vicinity of Port Praski.

Master’s degree duo work with Michał Szaranowicz realized in Mirosław Bałka Studio of Spatial Activities, presented in Komputer gallery in Warsaw, 2018.

www.vimeo.com/agnieszkamastalerz/sluice <- zrób z tego QR code

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Maja Renn, Fabio Don [PL/CH]

Projekt: INHALE

Wystawę można oglądać do 15 stycznia 2023 r. w Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu, ul. Bernardyńska 5

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