1. EVAPORATING MATERIALITY
The dynamic of built environment
and community
Ilona Puskás

2. I. Apartments X (Poland)
I. Finissage of Stadium X
I. Re:Orient

3. Apartments X

4. In the wake of ‘flying universities’
• Polish edition by Zuza
Sikorska and the
Nowy Teatr in
collaboration with the
Hebbel-am-Ufer
Theatre in Berlin
• Three heterogeneous
parts of Warsaw -
Mokotow, Mirow and
Brodno

5. Multilevel involvement
• The intimacy of the
settings allows active
participation
• Counterpointing the
exhausted street art
approach

8. Live art projects in the derelict communist stadium,
Warsaw
Stadium X

9. The 10th Anniversary Stadium
• ‘90s: ‘Jarmark Europa’
the only
multicultural site
• Vietnamese intelligentsia
as street traders
• Heterotopic logic,
longstanding
(non)presence
• Memory, deterioration,
exoticism

10. A Trip to Asia
(2006)
• Acoustic walk
• Urban roaming/
headphone-guided​
museum tours
• Tourist gaze:
– Voyeurism
– Alienation
– Passivity
by Anna Gajewska, Joanna Warsza & Ngo Van Tuong

11. A mechanism of
deconstructing reality
• Reversing minority-​
majority relations
• Enhancing visibility
• Creating co-​
responsibility

12. Re:Orient

13. Re:Orient
(2006)
Hungarian Pavilion,
Venice Biennale of Architecture
• Architectural
experiment
• Research on spaces
and objects used by the
Chinese
• Excavation of cultural
narratives

14. ‘Migrating Architectures’
• Developed through
prototyping
• The same hubs:
• Food
• Shopping/market
• Services
• Temple

15. ‘Guanxi’ above all
• No substantial transformations of the
built environment
• Palpable and emotive factors in
spatial features
• Emphasis on ‘soft systems’
• Functioning relationships for flexibility
• Reciprocity