- What: Debates
- When: 13 October, 1:30 PM and 3:00 PM
- Where: Level 0 (auditorium)
Choose your side and take the floor! The topics of the festival debates will be presented by experts Aleksandra Andrzejewska and Małgorzata Malinowska. Participants will be divided into two groups (‘for’ and ‘against’ the presented concept) and attempt to convince each other of their viewpoints.
The moderators, Beata Głowacka and Jakub Tołkaczewski, will ensure a lively and respectful discussion.
We got it from the soil
- 13 October, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
- Conference centre, level 0 (auditorium)
We seek materials of the future, create complex technologies, and develop recycling methods. But is it possible that we are forgetting about a certain biomaterial, which is the very basis of life on Earth? The one that we tread on, cultivate, dig into, and toss around?
Thanks to the soil, we can not only produce food, fight the climate crisis and marvel at diverse landscapes. Its extraordinary properties and importance will be the starting point for a discussion about composting, death, and... poop. During the debate, we will consider whether we still find soil-related projects controversial or if they have become natural and obvious.
For a while or for years?
- 13 October, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
- Conference centre, level 0 (auditorium)
Durability and quality are (besides aesthetic qualities) the most important features that define the value of everyday objects. Durable, long-lasting, decent – this is how furniture, shoes, and clothing should be. An oak table crafted by an artisan used to serve a family for generations. Has anything changed?
Does the availability of disposable and cheap products, which can be easily replaced without any regret, change our relationship with objects? Or perhaps the need for mobility and ecological awareness leads us to appreciate the value of biodegradable items and owning fewer clothes?
During the debate, we will explore the topics of durability and temporality in design and architecture. We will reflect on how to introduce circularity and whether repairing objects is a prerequisite for sustainability. We will discuss the advantages and challenges related to creating things ‘for the long term’ as well as the perspective of intentionally designing things to be temporary.
Ola Andrzejewska - an architect by education and a holder of a master's degree in humanities. She is a co-founder of the SAM Rozkwit organisation. She engages in activities at the intersection of various disciplines: philosophy, art, design, and urban activism. She also works as a lecturer at the School of Form at SWPS University in Warsaw, in the Faculty of Design, and is a member of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Thought. She co-created projects exhibited at Foksal Gallery (Warsaw, 2022), super bien! (Berlin, 2022), and Greensboro Project Space (2022).
Megi Malinowska - an architect by education. She lives and works in Gdynia. She is the designer and co-founder of the Tabanda furniture brand, which has been on the market since 2009. She works as a lecturer at the School of Form at SWPS University in Warsaw. She teaches product design classes, often touching on issues of sustainable development, care for non-human inhabitants, and community building. She is also a member of the SAM Rozkwit organisation, a co-founder of the design studio ‘Proto Typy’ at PPNT in Gdynia, and a creator of land art installations.
