Published: 2020-12-31

Culture-creating activities in the city space: examples from Lodz

dr hab. Grażyna Ewa Karpińska, prof. UŁ
Journal of Urban Ethnology
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE18.2020.006

Abstract

Space not only provides a frame, or an arena, for human life, but it is also an important factor of change and an effect of the society’s organisation. This is one of the reasons why grassroots culture-creating activities aimed at marking human presence in a certain place, and altering the perception of space, materialise there.In the article, I present examples of culture-creating practices addressed to the residents of two streets in Lodz; streets which are relatively isolated in terms of space and social contexts and which have been cate-gorised by sociologists as an enclave of poverty. I describe actions by the performance artist Agnieszka Ziemiszewska and the circle of culture animators centring on the “White Crows” Foundation for the Living Culture [Fundacja na rzecz Kultury Żywej “Białe Gawrony”], treating them as means to recognise the context and character of grassroots culture-creating practices aimed a reformatting the socio-cultural identity of a particular area of a city.

Keywords:

city space, grassroots culture-creating practices, performativism, intervention projects,, socjalisation projects, discovering local resources, Lodz, Poland

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Karpińska, G. E. (2020). Culture-creating activities in the city space: examples from Lodz: Anthropological contexts. Journal of Urban Ethnology, 18, 105–119. https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE18.2020.006

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