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Ideal City employs instrumentally the phenomenon of Nowa Huta (Poland), a town imagined and made concrete from above, as a holistic urbanistic and social experiment, aimed at outlining prospective scenarios for the evolution of the concept of city. This time developed at grass-roots level by the community laying down its rules.

The case of Nowa Huta is altogether exceptional because the experimental concept of the city created for the purposes of social engineering accumulates an infinite number of previous urban scenarios, universalising in this way the experience of city in the broad sense.

The experience of Nowa Huta’s unfinished utopia goes along with an equally multilayeredvisual archive. Although it only has two authors [Wiktor Pental (1920–2013) and Henryk Makarewicz (1917–1984)], their photographic practices occurred on diverse planes, thus representing a number of simultaneous policies on working with the image. As a consequence, the mutually complementary and discursive character of specific narratives or single images constituting the collection makes it a perfect instrumentarium to be used in the investigation process of what the city is today or may be in future.

Therefore, Ideal City juxtaposes two experiences: a city designed from scratch—a laboratory not only in urbanist and architectural but chiefly in social terms, and its representation. Apparently a coherent whole, it is still based on a number of a number of overlapping views: strictly documentary, humanistic, propagandist, private, more or less directly involved in the sphere of art, frequently constituting afterimages of concurrent visual trends. Deconstruction of such multilayered and equivocal collection of photographs dedicated to the city, a product of intersecting views from above, private convictions and synchronic aesthetic regimes, gives rise to a laboratory where prospective scenarios for how the concept of city may evolve are drawn, but this time from the grassroots perspective.

Ideal City is an open proposition, and merely a leaven for a broader progressing discourse. Bordering on a display or a publication at first, it provides a platform for further research offering a living repository for interested researchers/artists to delve into within the framework of the website/exhibition, and suggest new ways of interpretation.

Curator: Łukasz Trzciński

Authors: Agata Cukierska, Dorota Jędruch, Marta Karpińska, Dorota Leśniak-Rychlak, Szymon Maliborski, Ewa Rossal, Stanisław Ruksza, Katarzyna Trzeciak, Magdalena Ujma, Michał Wiśniewski

Supporting voices: Christophe Alix, Piotr Bujak, Łukasz Błażejewski, EBANO collective, Nina Fiocco, Tomasz Fudala, Marek Janczyk, Kacper Kępiński, Paweł Kruk, Yan Kurz, Piotr Lisowski, Lukáš Machalický, Krzysztof Maniak, Tomáš Moravec, Wojciech Nowicki, Jan Pfeiffer, Agnieszka Piksa&Vladimir Palibrk, Aleka Polis, Tomasz Rakowski, Dominik Stanisławski, Stach Szumski, Yan Tomaszewski, Matej Vakula, Jaro Varga, Aleksandra Wasilkowska, Paweł Wątroba, Rafał Woś, Julita Wójcik, Ewa Zarzycka

Production: Imago Mundi Foundation in partnership with The Museum of Photography in Kraków

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Lenin Metallurgical Combine. Blast Furnace – pig iron tapped off from blast furnace throat. 1960s.
The Blast Furnace is a steel structure (approximately 40m high) with refractory ceramic or coal lining. A mixture of ore, fuse elements, and coke is charged into the furnace from above. Hot air is blown into the hearth through special nozzles called tuyeres at the bottom.

Kombinat metalurgiczny im. Lenina, Wielki Piec – spust surówki z gardzieli Wielkiego Pieca, lata 60.
Wielki Piec to konstrukcja stalowa (ok. 40 m wysokości) wyłożona wewnątrz ceramicznym i węglowym materiałem ogniotrwałym. Od góry wprowadza się do niego mieszaninę rudy, topników oraz koksu, od dołu, poprzez dysze wiatrowe, wdmuchiwane jest podgrzane powietrze.

Photo by Henryk Makarewicz/idealcity.pl

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Lenin Metallurgical Combine. Blast Furnace – pig iron tapped off from blast furnace throat. 1960s. The Blast Furnace is a steel structure (approximately 40m high) with refractory ceramic or coal lining. A mixture of ore, fuse elements, and coke is charged into the furnace from above. Hot air is blown into the hearth through special nozzles called tuyeres at the bottom. Kombinat metalurgiczny im. Lenina, Wielki Piec – spust surówki z gardzieli Wielkiego Pieca, lata 60. Wielki Piec to konstrukcja stalowa (ok. 40 m wysokości) wyłożona wewnątrz ceramicznym i węglowym materiałem ogniotrwałym. Od góry wprowadza się do niego mieszaninę rudy, topników oraz koksu, od dołu, poprzez dysze wiatrowe, wdmuchiwane jest podgrzane powietrze. Photo by Henryk Makarewicz/idealcity.pl

Miejsce

Nowa Huta

Czas

8 September 1969

Tagi

blast furnace, combine, Lenin Steelworks, pig iron

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50.083018, 20.088205

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