The meeting with the researcher, curator, and author of the book “Futerał. O urządzaniu mieszkań w PRL-u” (The Case: On Interior Design in the People's Republic of Poland) will be hosted by Aldona Mioduszewska, marketing director at Galeria Wnętrz DOMAR and design lecturer.

We will challenge the stereotypes that have been circulating for years in stories about how apartments were used and decorated in communist Poland. We will take a look at Agata Szydłowska's enormous journalistic, research, and archival work in unearthing facts and verifying myths. We will find out what surprised her most about the most enduring images from that period, what was satisfying about discovering previously unknown facts, and what tools—images, stories, repetitive propaganda messages—were used to construct the narrative of a modernizing society in post-war Poland.

The meeting is organized in cooperation with Czarne Publishing House and DOMAR Interior Design Gallery.