In November, at the third meeting in the series “Cultural landscape of foothill villages in the Kłodzko region”, we hosted the reporter and photojournalist Filip Springer. We talked about, among others, his book “Grey Hour. It’s time for a new architecture.”

 

– We talk so much about air travel, clothing chains, plastic straws and electric cars, and so little about buildings. Suffice it to say that the carbon footprint resulting from the construction, use and possible dismantling of buildings constitutes about 40 percent of global emissions, emphasized Filip Spiringer. – It’s time to ask how architecture should change in the face of an ecological catastrophe.

 

How should we build and what should we give up? What place should the environment have in design? Do we have the right to jeopardize the future of our children for the sake of our own comfort? – we wondered at the meeting. It was hosted by Wojciech Heliński, emcee of the Mountain Festival. Andrzej Zawada in Lądek-Zdrój, poet, lyricist, president of the Fundus Glacensis association, organizing socio-cultural projects and events on the Polish-Czech border for 25 years.

 

Traditionally, we organized the meeting with Filip Springer (Friday, November 8, 5:30 p.m.) with the help (and at the headquarters of) the Municipal Cultural Center and Library in Lewin Kłodzki at ul. Chopina 2.