Waliców Project _ Spolia

Tracing the dramatic story of the urban division in the development of European cities, from its first medieval appearance until today, the case of the Warsaw Ghetto, established by the Nazis between 1940 and 1943 is a matrix for a review of the urban divisions that mark our present, a structured phenomenon on the basis of defensive ideologies to justify racism. The Warsaw Ghetto generated a special form of vital response, both in terms of a specific cultural production, and through an uprising carried out by young civilians. The cultural importance of this event as an introduction to Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, resulted -as known- in the almost total destruction of the city by the Nazis, building by building, with the annihilation of its population, its human, historical, cultural, architectural, urban and artistic heritage. These testimonies of an entire culture and of the resistance to  annihilation are now in danger, as they permanently risk to be removed from the city and from the European collective consciousness as well, because of the rapid urban transformations. The fragments of the Ghetto survived in Ul. Waliców are an heritage for humanity, a testimony, a warning and at the same time an extraordinary building material for a future of dialogue and civil consciousness, a value to be protected and regenerated by a careful museum project, both architectural and urban, before it is too late.

Program

10:00 | Introduction

Ing. Roberto Jarach, Vice-President Fondazione Memoriale della Shoah Onlus

Adrianna Siennicka, Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Milan

10:15 | Lectio Magistralis • Prof. Ilaria Valente

Dean, AUIC School, Politecnico di Milano

10:45 | Waliców Project: A Memorial of the present between former Warsaw Ghetto’s ruins

Guido Morpurgo, Annalisa de Curtis, Sara Protasoni, AUIC School, Politecnico di Milano

11:15 | Inauguration of the Exhibition

With: Prof. Marco Biraghi, Delegate Vice Dean for cultural activities and exhibitions, AUIC School,

Prof. Gennaro Postiglione, President/Coordinator of the Study Courses in Architecture

Seminary and Exhibition organized by

Architectural Design Laboratory II [MSc] – section C • AY 2017-18

Politecnico di Milano  School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering

Proff. Guido Morpurgo, Annalisa de Curtis, Sara Protasoni

with Giuseppe Biscottini, Daniele Bonetti, Federica Lentati, Enrico Miglietta

For more info www.walicowproject.polimi.it