After the screening of the film Maurice and Me, we will talk about how to effectively build narratives about “unpopular” but materially or socially valuable architecture. How to create coalitions and work to promote and use existing and available tools to ensure its visibility and understanding?

With a diverse group of discussants, we will use examples—including historical architecture, industrial resources, and late modernist buildings—to show that preserving, caring for, and renovating heritage is still possible and worth being sensitive to. Life after the life of architecture is possible, as proven by successful investments, which will certainly be discussed by our guests, representatives of both private initiatives and companies (Alicja Prodeus and Piotr Grochowski) and a local government body responsible for heritage preservation (Marcin Dawidowicz). They will be interviewed by an architectural journalist and initiator of campaigns aimed at caring for the modernist legacy (Julia Dragović).

We will learn how to support good initiatives from the “back seat.” What each and every one of us can do to effectively contribute to creating a positive image of valuable buildings and larger fragments of the urban fabric.

The conversation is conducted in cooperation with the National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning.