Taming the wild city — presentation and cognitive walk

We invite you to a meeting with Dr. Mariusz Antolak on October 24th (Saturday) at 11:00. The meeting will begin at the temporary headquarters of BWA Olsztyn in Hala Urania | Al. Marsz. 44 J. Piłsudski. After a short multimedia presentation, we will walk around Urania and look at urban nature from a different perspective. We will look into the nooks and crannies and alleys of the urban jungle and look for beauty in them. We will talk about fourth nature, secondary succession, horticultural guerrilla, and the beauty of wildness. We will talk about modern trends in the design of green spaces. We will try to get used to the fears that accompany us when in contact with urban wildlife...

The forest is a place that we enter with the feeling that something could happen... Walking around the city, we are also accompanied by numerous fears and fears. Out of these concerns stem many of the clean-up actions that make our cities too sterile. We are afraid of uncut grass, in which herds of ticks and swarms of mosquitoes roam, we are afraid of fruits that fall from trees and attract wasps... We love the wild, but controlled. One that is at a safe distance. Everyone has their fears, but it is worth at least a little to get used to the urban wildness and get to know it a little closer.

Conducted by: dr inż. arch. kraj. Mariusz Antolak — landscape architect, gardener, academic teacher, popularizer of science, sociologist and educator. University advisor for biodiversity and landscape architecture, expert Garden Master Class Polska, assistant professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture (UWM Olsztyn). Founder of the Foundation “In the Landscape”, within which he promotes organic gardening and living in harmony with nature. On a daily basis, he conducts lectures and workshops, designs green spaces and performs landscape expertise. More: www.wrazie.org.pl

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DETAILS OF CLASSES:

TIME: approx. 1.5h-2h
PARTICIPANTS: up to 20 people
*registrations are required for classes
PRICE: Ticket 5 zł (participant/fee)
CONTACT AND REGISTRATION: m.sadowska@bwa.olsztyn.pl

Accompanying event as part of Natalia Kopytko's exhibition “Everyone for their fears”