Saturday, 19th May | 8:00 PM | Gdynia Film Centre: Warszawa room
Debate: “People live here. Does the public space we live in fulfil our needs?” after the film “Brasilia-Life After Design”
Brasilia, the capital city of Brazil was built in 1960 almost in the middle of a desert by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. It has been called a “fantastic island” and declared a UNESCO world heritage site. It is a masterpiece of 20th century modernism. Brasilia has won a world-wild renown and recognition among architects, feature writers and historians. However, it has been built without taking the needs of its inhabitants, laws of the nature or economy into account. Some see the source of the city’s problems in its pragmatic or even hostile architecture.
Together with our guests, we will reflect on the life in a designed city. What happens after the meticulously planned architectural design comes to an end and the inhabitants’ everyday life begins? And, above all, how to meet the needs of today’s dynamically developing urban communities?
The debate’s participants:
Jacek Debis – Gdynia Development Agency’s Director for Strategic Projects who cooperates with the Gdynia City Spatial Planning Office. An organiser of Architecture Weekend, etc.
Diana Lenart – founder of the Open House Gdynia and Open House Gdańsk open architecture festivals.
Barbara Marchwicka – urban planner, revitalisation specialist at the Social Innovation Lab in Gdynia and a former member of the Polish Urban Planners Association.
Partners: Agencja Rozwoju Gdyni, Open House Gdynia, Laboratorium Innowacji Społecznych
