Anna Wilczynska Portfolio

ANNA WILCZYŃSKA

PORTFOLIO

Temporary installation: The Homeless Garden Marion Ponsard, Anna Wilczyńska Tartu, Estonia, 2012

AUGUST 2021

1st PRIZE: REVITALIZATION OF THE POLE MOKOTOWSKIE PARK IN WARSAW LOCATION: WARSAW DESIGNERS: Paweł Grodzicki, Szczepan Wroński, Łukasz Szczepanowicz, Krzysztof Moskała, Paweł Wolanin, Magdalena Julianna Nowak, Maja Skibińska, Aleksandra Wiktorko, Anna Wilczyńska, Krzysztof Herman, Grzegorz Gądek, Marcin Gąsiorowski DATE OF DESIGN: 2018 AWARDS AND PRIZES: 1st PRIZE IN THE PROJECT COMPETITION FOR REVITALIZATION OF THE POLE MOKOTOWSKIE PARK IN WARSAW more here

THE CONCEPT The Concept Pole Mokotowskie Park is a result of both the top-down operations of the designers and the bottom-up social actions.

Our approach is a sensitively stimulated evolution and well-planned „acupuncture”.

A park is a process, not an occurrence. It is a constant evolution of the natural systems and changes in social activities. A park is made up of two symbolic houses: the House of Man and the House of Nature. The zone „in-between” these domains is an area of biocoenotic landscape, built consciously, with features that serve both man and nature.

Nature-based solution and sustainable drainage system

Green corridors connectivity and sustainable management

HOUSE OF MAN

HOUSE OF NATURE

TREES AND SHRUBS

MEADOWS

HOUSE OF NATURE

REEDS

ORNAMENTAL AND UTILITY GARDENS HOUSE OF MAN

Situated at the National Library a large meadow and will be hedged in with a wreath of ornamental trees.

Mown areas and unmown grasslands will form a „grass display” – large scale Land Art compositions changed every year.

With reference to the areas of human well-being, the concept envisages a series of interventions. The main walkway will become a promenade. The new addition will be a circular alley that will surround the park and along which all main park activities and entertainments will be located.

Smaller interventions will be scattered all over the park: an outdoor dining room, a breakfast market and a municipal educational farm, reconstructed and remodified, Finnish cottages intended for social and workshop functions, surrounded by social gardens.

New or adapted playgrounds for children and outdoor gyms will be located in the Park. For users with dogs, there will be off-leash area and a training spot. To protect against the sun or rain, local roofings will be scattered over the park area.

PUBLIC CONSULTATION FOR „NIEBRÓW” NEIGHBOURHOOD Design team: Dariusz Śmiechowski (coordinator, architect) Beata J. Gawryszewska (landscape architect), Ewa Zielińska (sociologist), Maciej Łepkowski (philosopher, urban activists), Anna Wilczyńska, Anna Maquet (landscape architect, graphic designer, illustrator) Activities: Questionnaires, workshops with paper model of the area, public consultations and debates Date: 2016/2017.

Among several consultations, I have been involved in the development of the post-soviet blockhousing area in Tomaszów Mazowiecki.

It was one of the most valuable and challenging experiences in the work of a researcher and landscape architect. There was a very limited budget and a very large, complex area to be covered. One of the concerns was also to get to know with inhabitants and get their trust since the place seemed to be forgotten and barely developed. Lack of playgrounds, benches and poor quality greenery was one of many issues!

We proposed a systematic approach consisting of buffer green areas, a central park (around the culture house), new playgrounds and alleys with benches. Informally created gardens (often happening in those areas in Poland) were appreciated and considered in the development plan.

Pictures from the area On the left empty lawns and right informal gardens and mapping workshop

BLUE INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF WARSAW

Team: Anna Wilczyńska (PI), Simon Bell (Supervisor), Izabela Myszka (co-investigator). Activities: On-line geo-questionnaires, inventory, assessment of blue spaces. Date: 03.2018 – 03.2022 Funded by: National Science Centre in Poland, number: 2018/29/N/ HS4/01421, 105 000 (polish zloty), 24 months (extended 12 months), Warsaw, Poland, The project aims to study spatial and social patterns of blue areas in Warsaw. Since 2019 we have studied 427 water elements in Warsaw resulting in three clusters: regularly managed areas, areas without defined functions, abandoned and forgotten places (urban wastelands). Moreover, we have conducted the geo-questionnaire in which we were referring to the non-monetary evaluation of benefits: ecosystem services perception, tangible and intangible values as well as functionality and accessibility of blue spaces.

Our first article is available here.

URBAN WASTELAND AREAS IN WARSAW

Project: “Inventory and valuation of selected degraded and polluted areas in Warsaw - natural and social potential of wastelands” implemented by the Capital City of Warsaw in the years 2017-2019.

The list of areas subject to the study embraced 25 lands constituting over 10% of the city’s area (ca. 350 ha), which is more than the total area of all urban parks. These included lands located over the Vistula River, post-industrial sites, former forts and railway sites, as well as any and all areas of housing estates (map provided on the last page of the brochure). Warsaw’s wastelands proved to be places that need to be viewed from a different perspective - as greenery resources serving recreational purposes, but also as areas where much can be done in terms of environmental engineering to improve air quality in the city. Above all, however, wasteland greenery should be recognised as a new form of informal urban greenery which can be shaped by citizens in a participatory process and thus perform novel social functions, either temporarily or permanently.

Wastelands: > clean the soil and air of pollutants; > are habitats for a variety of plants and animals, including valuable and rare species; > are intensively used for recreational purposes; > thanks to their aesthetics are commonly regarded as areas of unrestrained use Publications > The recreational potential for wastelands as well as users’ preferences for wasteland aesthetics. Case study of Warsaw is available here: https://doi.org/10.1051/ e3sconf/20184500018 > The right to wild. Green urban wasteland in the context of urban planning: https://doi. org/10.2478/udi-2018-0027 >Booklet is available here Team: dr hab. Beata J. Gawryszewska, dr hab. inż. Piotr Sikorski, dr hab. Jarosław Chormański, dr hab. Axel Schwerk, dr hab. Marzena Wińska-Krysiak, dr Izabela Dymitryszyn, dr Tomasz Duda, dr Krzysztof Herman, dr Arkadiusz Przybysz, dr Aleksandra Przegalińska-Skierkowska, dr Daria Sikorska, dr Barbara Zajdel, mgr Maciej Łepkowski, mgr Ryszard Nejman, mgr Anna Wilczyńska, mgr Martyna Cziszewska, mgr Agata Jojczyk, mgr Wojciech Mejor, mgr Jarosław Matusiak, mgr Piotr Archiciński, mgr Wojciech Ciężkowski, mgr Maciej Góraj mgr Jacek Jóźwiak On the right: development scenarios of urban wastelands in Warsaw

PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT OF JAZDOW SETTELMENT From 2014 till around 2020 I was working with the Jazdów Neighborhood (jazdow.pl) in Warsaw. It has started in 2014 when looking for a different experience than office work I joined the Culturemaking association „MIASTODWA” to conduct the public consultation in that place.

Since that we have managed to defend the area against the demolition. Nowadays it is a vivid place, full of activities, very diverse organizations - the main point on the cultural map of Warsaw.

Within that period of time, I have been involved in the creation of the Community Management Model for Jazdów Settlement” number 364, European Cultural Foundation, Research and Development (R&D), which has ended with an international conference. Nowadays, as I am not fully involved anymore, the work on that model is still ongoing. Wit the involved team we have published a book: Self-organisation movement and co-governance of urban space, available here.

In cooperation with Jazdow and different universities, we have also conducted several design workshops and lectures.

Public consultations, Latko, 2014 Report: LINK

International workshop: „ Urban acupuncture. Jazdów Finish Houses”, in cooperation with: Warsaw Art Academy, University of Warsaw(sociology), Aalto University, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

Results of the workshop presented during the festival Warsaw under construction 7 by Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw: https://artmuseum.pl/en/cykle/warszawa-w-budowie-7

The book and the international conference: Self-organisation movement and co-governance of urban space https://issuu.com/miastodwa/docs/otwarty-jazdow

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