Let's wake up the bears

Książnica Kopernikańska, Toruń, September 2019 ( European Heritage Days)

The inspiration for the workshop was the architecture and art of early modernism and finding examples of it in the part of Bydgoski Przedmieście closest to the Książnica, i.e. Słowackiego and Mickiewi...cza streets. The aim of the workshop was to create a range of memorabilia related to modernism. Some of these souvenirs were works I had designed earlier: postcards, folding models, which each workshop participant received. The idea was part of my previous activities on the urban fabric, in which I try to draw attention to the fact that a city is not only the centre and the representative part, that a postcard with a tenement from the 1930s or one featuring Ignacy Zelka's Bears can be just as attractive. Such ‘taking to task’ of less obvious objects also has an educational value and broadens the awareness that not only buildings from several hundred years ago are monuments, but also those from 100, 90, 50 years ago.