During the many stays with my family in law in Poland,
I created a fascination: What is the future of the communist/socialism mass
housing suburbs dating from the 70th and 80th of last
century, planned according to the fundaments of CIAM. Due to the enormous
housing shortage the suburbs were built in an immense scale and in a fast tempo
resulting most of the time in poor quality of building and public space.
The rapid transformation from communism to capitalism
resulted in the neglecting of public space and buildings. The sudden lack of top-down
control and the natural sense of irresponsibility among the society were the “ingredients”
of this negative change. Increasing car ownership and the shortage of common
interests resulting from the newly created diversity of property ownership
increased the problem of neglecting.
Do these communistic planned neighborhoods, at the
end, have the flexibility to incorporate changes of the transformation to a capitalist
system? Or has the “expire-date” of these state planned neighborhoods been
reached and can’t be a part of an “initially” confronting social system? During
my final thesis I’m trying to create a strategy how to deal with these
transformation that have enormous impact on people daily life and there
environment.