Warsaw
Observatory
of Culture

At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture we aim to explore the processes of contemporary culture and share our findings with the wider community. We believe that connecting art and artists with scholarship affords us a better understanding of the world and the tools to engage with and contribute to the future.
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Warsaw in Sociological Studies
What do migrants in the capital do for a living? How does housing insecurity affect the lives of Varsovians? Do we feel responsible for the quality of the air in our city? These are just some of the questions we will try to answer during the upcoming national scientific conference Warsaw in Sociological Studies. The event, organised by the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw and the Polish Sociological Association will be held in late November.
Stepping to a dance house in Warsaw
Warsaw Observatory of Culture launched a study aimed at facilitating the process of modelling a dance institution in Warsaw: jointly developing a formula for a one-year pilot project at the Vistula River Pavilion, researching the audience and the dance community, and conducting a systematic in-depth evaluation of the process at each stage (thus creating tools that will allow stakeholders to prototype and effectively test different variants).

Otwarcie warszawskiej sceny tańca w Pawilonie nad Wisłą. Z Joanną Leśnierowską rozmawia Julia Hoczyk

“Jak to możliwe, że stolica czterdziestomilionowego, środkowoeuropejskiego kraju nie ma jeszcze miejsca poświęconego jednej z najbardziej dynamicznie rozwijających się sztuk scenicznych?” – pyta Joanna Leśnierowska w rozmowie z Julią Hoczyk.

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List of Shortcomings: an interdisciplinary theatre project

Together we want to take part in a debate on culture as a working environment, the precariat as the dominant form of (un)employment in culture and the conditions, hierarchies, and inconsistencies between the level of the declared values and their realisation.

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On friendship and Warsaw. Interview with Oksana Kolisnyk

What are the interests of young refugees in Warsaw? How can we reach them? These are some of the questions that we at the Warsaw Observatory of Culture have been asking for some time, and then Oksana Kolisnyk, a student of Social Arts at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, approached us with a request to organise workshops in our WOKLab.

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Future Culture. Needs, Ideas and Solutions

Presenting the solutions developed by experts for the cultural sector during a time of transition. On 26 September, a debate on the organisation of the financing and functioning of culture in Poland took place at the Nowy Teatr in Warsaw.

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