WASTE BOOM
“The project is a response to, and the merging of, two latent crises. One is Polish, as all of Poland’s coal plants face closure, and the second one is European, as we produce construction and demolition waste without an adequate plan for its disposal.”
Małgorzata Stanisławek, 2020.
SYNOPSIS
The Waste Boom is a response to, and the merging of, two latent crises. One is Polish, as all of Poland’s coal plants face closure, and the second one is European, as we produce construction and demolition waste without an adequate plan for its disposal. The proposal is a spatial diagnosis of both crisis and design architectures that can operate as a triple vision for Poland: a territorial one by recycling old coal sites, an institutional one by creating a new sustainable source of economic bonanza, and lastly a vision for polish citizens, by constructing a vast network of participatory public spaces throughout Poland.
This project was developed in parallel to the proposition that coal is a ‘chiasmic agent’ that is part of a dynamic system, with other nonhuman and human agents, that is vulnerable to hijacking. Thus the new waste network in The Waste Boom is a hijacking of existing coal networks.
MALGORZATA STANISTAWEK
Małgorzata is a designer and writer interested in notions of objecthood and how we understand material systems. She have completed her Part I and Part II RIBA at the Architectural Association and also holds an MA (Cantab) in Natural Sciences and Management Studies and she is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW).