Warsaw makes a selected district the model for energy transformations as part of their efforts for climate neutrality (EU-Mission100). In their presentation at SIEF2025 Anna Ptak, Anna Horolets and Maria Małanicz-Przybylska of the University of Warsaw look at the district ethnographically, treating it as material, socio-cultural and institutional reality.
Does the project overwrite or erase some of the district’s characteristics and actors? Could ethnographic unwriting be a means to more equitable urban energy transitions?
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1. One of 2791 Millenium Schools built between 1958 and 1972. Primary school in Warsaw, Piaseczyńska street, image source: public domain, Warszawski Kalendarz Ilustrowany 1968, Wydawnictwo Warszawskiego Tygodnika “Stolica”, Warszawa 1967 2. Greenery as a climate adaptation, a rendering for a NEEST project, 2024 – with a Millenium School building in Warsaw. Image source: Warszawa dla Klimatu, Warsaw City Council social media. 3. Millenium School – inside and outside, recalcitrant materiality, awaiting renovation after 60 years. 4. How does a Millenium School building participate in a climate modernization? A scheme by Ptak, Horolets, Małanicz. 5. Presentation of findings at SIEF 2025 in Aberdeen.
