Lifespace / Piotr Pindor

"Inside - Out"

Biography

Lifespace is a research group. We base our work and research in environmental social sciences, which allows for diagnosis of the interaction between the social and the spatial. We specialize in supporting the decision making and design process by providing and employing available knowledge, evidence and data about socio – spatial relations. Lifespace team members are psychologists and architects expirienced in research focused on space–people interactions. Our previous research projects mostly concerned public space. We were commisioned by the Warsaw City Hall, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and the Warsaw Uprising Museum. Members of Lifespace were co-ordinators of such research projects as: Functioning of Plac Defilad Area project and Social Functioning of Nowa Praga Area project. We also prepared and led many workshops devoted to public space in Warsaw.

Piotr Pindor is an architect and urban planner living and working in Warsaw. He co-runs a research group Lifespace. He coordinated and led many workshops devoted to public and urban space e.g.: workshops for Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, workshops for Warsaw Uprising Museum. His main area of interest includes participatory design and applying social knowledge in urban and architectural design.

Workshop description

Our intrest in Ursynów district is on one hand related to our professional work and experience, and on the other to the fact that some of Lifespace members are long – time Ursynów inhabitants. This gives us a unique opportunity to be participant observers of the ongoing changes in the physical structure and the everyday social functioning of the area. Despite these massive yet interesting changes, not enough attention is paid to the district, neither by the inhabitants nor experts. In our opinion some of crucial aspects of the process should become a topic of research and public datable. Key phenomena are in place, namely the process of block housing settlement becoming the city, life between buildings including social functioning of green spaces and bottom-up transformation of block buildings.

We propose to engage inhabitants and experts in research and discussion about the changes in their space and behaviour. In our project we would like to employ a number of qualitative research methods, including a workshop, a simulation game in space, and an in-situ participant observation that would allow inhabitants to reflect on their lifespace from different point of view while having fun exploring their everyday environment.

Actiuni relevante

URSYNÓW | WORKSHOP | miercuri, 30.06.2010 | 21:30

Inside - Out

Architectural probings in Ursynów's public spaces

URSYNÓW | WORKSHOP | miercuri, 30.06.2010 | 20:30

Inside - Out. Event #5

Architectural probings in Ursynów public spaces. Event #5: Presentation of the results