Synecdoche, FRAMPOL: Contextualizing EU development policies in the post-Socialist context of eastern Poland

By tracing EU money streams, flowing from Brussels into the provinces of eastern Poland, the project explores the local effectiveness of European development policies, induced by their financial instruments. Frampol, a rural municipality and eponymous town planned by the Renaissance ideal, is studied as an example for the rural challenges particular to the Central and Eastern European Countries which accessed the Union in 2004 and 2007. The project presents a relational analysis and the ability to extrapolate the particular condition of an individual farmer in Frampol, today, from the historic events during the Second World War, the subsequent Socialist regime and the unprecedented acceleration of history and radical transformation Poland has experienced in the past two decades. Thus, the farmer is a synecdoche for the collision of larger forces, a historic legacy which claims more time to come to terms with and a pressing future set out by global trends and European visions. Rather than superimposing western development concepts and methods in a region and town which are still rich with spatial and culturally specific agricultural tradition, the project emphasizes the preservation of local diversity for a stronger (European) whole.

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EU financial instruments
integrated development strategy
rural land fragmentation
underpass

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