Let’s talk about garbage

The project, presented by Kowalski and Szczelina, is about the overproduction of garbage, which is a global problem every country in the world has to deal with.

The modern answer to the overproduction of waste coming from a lifestyle of excessive consumption is recycling. It seems to be the only hope of slowing down the process of covering our planet with garbage. The “Let’s talk about garbage” project is an attempt to show new, alternative strategies for fighting with the waste landslide covering our cities - how architecture can help diminish it and participate in the recycling process.

Hugon Kowalski, the founder of the firm UGO Architecture, was invited to participate in the main exhibition of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, curated byu Alejandro Aravena, titled „Reporting from the front”. Kowalski invited Marcin Szczelina, an architecture critic and curator the co--creator of Architecture Snob, to participate in the project. In his Biennale manifesto Aravena says: "There are some battles that need to be won and some borders that need to be widened in order to improve the quality of the built environment, and therefore to improve people's quality of life. More and more people on Earth are looking for a proper place to live, and this is more and more difficult to achieve. Any attempt to step outside of business interests usually meets with huge resistance in the chaos of reality and we need to make every effort to solve the important prolems of the increasingly complex world”.

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Other archival events from that cycle:

DzieńGodzinaNazwa wydarzeniaMiejsce wydarzenia
18:00 Meeting TRANSFORMATION AS A VECTORED PROCESS - Autoportret promotional eventWARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION Academy Old printing house
ul. Nowogrodzka 84/86, Warsaw
12:00 Workshops My home, my asylum. Living comfortably Children's workshop Borman Palace
ul. Srebrna 12, Warsaw
18:30 Lecture POLISH MANOR HOUSEWARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION Academy Old printing house
ul. Nowogrodzka 84/86, Warsaw
12:30 Walk MIRACLE IN PRAGA. NEW COUNCIL HOUSINGMaterial walks #1 Meeting point of walk #1
ul. Jagiellońska 47, Warsaw
12:30 Workshops My Home, Our CityOpen actions for children Old printing house
ul. Nowogrodzka 84/86, Warsaw
14:00 Guided tour Guided tour in English of the „Home at Last” exhibition Old printing house
ul. Nowogrodzka 84/86, Warsaw
16:00 Guided tour MEETING AT THE EXHIBITION: Olga Drenda Old printing house
ul. Nowogrodzka 84/86, Warsaw
12:30 Workshops A RECIPE FOR A HOMEFamily activities Old printing house
ul. Nowogrodzka 84/86, Warsaw