XII Baltic Festival of Science "Gdańsk unbuild"

Gdańsk seems familiar- it is the city we live in. Its space is like air, it is natural to us. This is Długi Targ (Long Market) , and here hala targowa, here the Green Gate, and here Zieleniak, here the restored Gdańsk Main Town, and here not restored Granary Island. Well, perhaps this Granary Island seems somehow unnatural. Perhaps looking at it we start to think: what could we build here ? what should be build here ? what was this place like in old days, and could be like in future ? We start to plan in thoughts.

Usually the power of facts is so big, that what exists we take for the obvious. Facing such places like the Granary Island however- places that are crippled, chaotic, unclosed- we understand that besides what EXISTS, there also is something THAT COULD EXIST. We are projecting the future. But we are not the first doing it. Citizen of Gdańsk in XIV, XVI or XIX century, those living in the Free City of Gdańsk and those becoming citizens after 1945,  did the same. What sparked in their imagination-have disappeared. Fortunately some of those people have written their visions-with word or drawing. Thanks to this we can recreate this other Gdańsk, Gdańsk unbuild, one that have not happen to exist.

This unbuild Gdańsk exists next the this build one, like on the pages of fantasy novels, there exist worlds simultaneous to ours.

PROGRAM:

17 May - 15 June 2014
Old Town Hall in Gdańsk, Korzenna street 33/35

"Gdańsk unbuild"- the exhibition displaying the most interesting, unrealized architectonic plans from XIX and XX century: sketches , projects, drawings, pictures of models, comments

23 May 2014 at 17:00 to 19:30
Old Tow Hall, Korzenna street 33/35

A discussion with participation of historians of art and architecture, presenting and commenting on chosen, unrealized projects

Participants: Ewa Barylewska-Szymańska , Jan Daniluk , Stanisław Flis, Jacek Friedrich, Lucyna Nyka, Anna Perz, Katarzyna Rozmarynowska, Magdalena Staręga, Jakub Szczepański, Jagoda Załęska-Kaczko

Moderation: Maria Jolanta Sołtysik

24 May 2014 at 12:00-13:30
Targ Rakowy street, entrance to Biblioteka Wojewódzka

120 years of unrealized projects on Targ Sienny- a trip with guides: historians of art and architecture, who in the heart of Gdańsk will show placed where the most spectacular realizations were to be build.

Admission: Free