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Miranda Zarzycka

Manager of Research and Art Projects
miranda.zarzycka@wok.art.pl
(dowolne zaimki)

(any pronouns)

I am a researcher as much as a walker. At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, I coordinate research projects and write various texts.

Before joining the WOK team, I conducted research in various fields: queer Warsaw, private rental in Polish cities, gentrification, and aid practices targeted at persons who came to Warsaw after February 24, 2022. Bringing a handful of experiences, I have a great curiosity about Warsaw’s nooks and crannies. These I find in co-conducted research projects: cultural education, reading education, and a project with the working title ‘In Warsaw’, in which we talk and walk around the capital, looking for experiences, anecdotes, and impressions of artists with a migration or refugee experience.

I live in Stary Mokotow (Old Mokotow district), where my neighbours and I are making quite successful attempts to practice urban gardening.

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How to conduct research through images? Movement and visuality of the city. Register for the seminar at the Warsaw Observatory of Culture!
What if you left a quiet room and conducted an interview in a bustling city environment? At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture (WOK), we are offering a three-day methodological seminar, during which we will embrace not only words, but also the movement, image and ambience of the city. They are an integral part of the research material. We will hold workshops with practitioners, and then try our hand at a walking-with-video research in Warsaw. The call is open, feel free to fill out the form!
In Warsaw
3 months ago
REPORT: To read or not to read? How to support young adults reading in the midst of a digital revolution
Who should answer this question? There are many people who read and promote reading, and multiple approaches to the problem. At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture (WOK), we have created a platform for sharing cross-sectoral knowledge and reflections on reading, in order to capture the transdisciplinary sense of reading promotion.
On the WOK.radar
2 weeks ago
CONVERSATION: Hearing the voice of poetry. An interview with Joanna Mueller
Female voice amplifiers versus dad jokes. Under the leadership of Joanna Mueller, we open our space to poetry and invite all readers to discover new poetic voices and search for works that are not chameleons. A conversation with the poet Joanna Mueller is the last in a series of interviews with experts in the Reader Education research project conducted by the Warsaw Observatory of Culture.
On the WOK.radar
2 weeks ago
ARTICLE: To my eye, it’s reading!
Can you live radically with your head in the clouds? In the age of the digital revolution, it is a thorn in the side of literary purists and a one-night-read, so to speak, if we betray the logic of progress, profit and consumption. The answer is complex. As an invited panellist at the Eye on the World (L'œil du monde) conference at the National Library on 22 March, I spoke about the implications of WOK research and what reading education could look like in the age of the digital revolution.
On the WOK.radar
2 weeks ago
WOK at a conference on children’s and young adult literature
What does 'literacy' or 'reading' mean in the digital revolution time? And what could it signify for different generations of readers, and what are the implications? Miranda Zarzycka presented preliminary research findings on literacy education, conducted by us at WOK, at a conference organized by the Wytwórnia publishing and the polish National Library.
Warsaw reading education in the age of digital revolution
7 months ago
Warsaw reading education in the age of digital revolution
How is the digital revolution changing reading practices? Which diegetic worlds are young people eager to visit and which are no longer accessible to them? The resting education research project, carried out in collaboration with the Culture Bureau of the capital city of Warsaw, provides an opportunity to take a closer look at these questions and juxtapose them with an interdisciplinary reflection on the reading competences of today's readers.
Artistic and Research Projects
4 months ago
In Warsaw
We invited artists with a migration or refugee experience to walk around Warsaw, to places that are important to them. Their stories, anecdotes and digressions, opinions and emotions are an attempt to answer the question again: how else could it be In Warsaw? Now ahead is a three-day methodological seminar.
Artistic and Research Projects
3 months ago
Cultural Education
The study of cultural education in Warsaw is a study of the city itself: its radically changing community; its shifts and uncertainties in the face of global challenges; as well as its local conditions and their impact on the lives of Warsaw’s residents. WOK presents the report Cultural Education in Research and Action, which concludes the second phase of our study on cultural education practices in Warsaw.
Artistic and Research Projects
6 months ago

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