Lecture: “Park on the Warsaw Uprising Mound – design development method”
Justyna Dziedziejko & Magdalena Wnęk are partners in TopoScape — a landscape architecture firm based in Warsaw that focuses, among other things, on the phenomenon of the “fourth nature” – nature that has come to reclaim the place it was previously taken from, to take over. The projects map the existing (species and community) values of the landscape in order to supplement them in such a way that the final result would be fully viable, authentic and honest in its location. One of their latest major works, the Uprising Mound park in Warsaw, well summarises all the themes of modern landscape architecture: spontaneous urban nature, painful historical memories, the appreciation of different landscape layers and the circulation of materials.
„The topic of this lecture is to discuss the design process we used in the creation of the ‘Park on the Warsaw Uprising Mound’. During the lecture we will discuss strategies aimed at creating a place-related design that supports biodiversity and closed cycle economy, we will define principles for typifying components that constitute the value of a place. The example of the park realises our postulation of an interdisciplinary design process, combining ideas based on the history of a place and nature. We will talk about the practical principles of information selection, interdisciplinary cooperation and guidelines for the construction phase of the park. The example of the Warsaw park shows how a degraded, abandoned and forgotten area, which is a post-industrial type space (brownfield), becomes a vibrant place again.”
