In-between
Imagining the Future of the Silesian Metropolitan Area
A.M. Kurkierewicz (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
B. Hausleitner – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
V.E. Balz – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
The moment of transition is a moment when the past, present and future happen simultaneously. The project will investigate the interplay between ‘longue durée’ structures, spatial dross and socio-spatial practices as a basis for shaping common practices that support collective solidarity. This in turn, will create a notion of care and foster new spatial imaginaries. Viewing the Silesian region from an imaginary perspective, spatial concepts will become a tool for exploring different patterns of growth and degrowth. By analysing these concepts, both individually and in combination with design exploration, a series of spatial and territorial interventions will be made to support a regenerative development of the region.
What will the Silesian region look like without the coal industry?
How the shrinkage of the region can be redefined to strengthen it?
What are core values of these places?