Right after the screening of the film “27 Storeys – Alterlaa Forever” we will try to rediscover today's narratives related to large-panel housing estates. After years of perceiving them as soulless, too homogeneous, conducive to crime and anonymity, when we finally began to see their great advantages—many useful services, greenery, large spaces between buildings, and usually excellent transport links to the rest of the city – can we look at them as potential and a model for the housing estates currently being built? What does the film Alterlaa have that we do not want to see in Wrocław's Gądów, Poznań's Rataje or Warsaw's Targówek, and what could influence a successful revival with the participation of younger generations?

In the company of architecture researcher Anna Cymer, educator and promoter of multidisciplinary design Katarzyna Świętek, and writer Beata Chomątowska, we will practice recognizing spaces that are conducive to activity at every stage of our social development and prolonging life. We will consider how to talk about the large panel, what aspects to pay attention to, and what actions to take to create and show its diversity and attractiveness, despite its often monotonous or seemingly uninteresting appearance. Together, we will answer the question: which solutions from those ways of shaping community and space could we implement today? And is there anything we should pay particular attention to, because it may disappear imperceptibly from the landscape of large-panel housing estates?

The discussion is organized in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw and the National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning. The discussion is supported by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.