Line 9
Line 9 is an interactive documentary about changes in social and urban landscape of Warsaw in time and space. The project is a story of how these transformations affect people’s lives.
Warsaw is a unique city, where dynamic of changes is incomparable to most cities you know. During the Second World War 80% of the city had been ruined, then new city was being built on the remains of the old one. The 90's brought chaotic mixture of fast investments, cheap but colorful materials and no control. Recently the city has been sprawling with all consequences of the process.
The project is a journey through time and space along the tramway line No. 9, one of the longest tramway lines in Warsaw. It passes by the most important places of the modern Poland’s history, e.g. brand new National Stadium, which replaced the old one that served as the biggest marketplace in Europe and local Viettown; plastic palm tree (artistic installation) right next to communist party headquarters changed into stock exchange in 1990. It crosses Vistula river, which divides the city into two antagonistic parts. Between new glass-and-steel buildings, communist housing blocks and pre-war tenement houses, there are places untouched for decades - the old world that is being slowly and quietly replaced by new reality.
We want to take the public on a virtual journey. The project will be based on contemporary footage (interviews, stories of people who live, work or travel along the line), archival images and user generated content.
Interactive documenatry will be released as responsive website for desktop (full version of virtual journey), as well as mobile version (interactive guide to be used while visiting places along the line).
Warsaw is a unique city, where dynamic of changes is incomparable to most cities you know. During the Second World War 80% of the city had been ruined, then new city was being built on the remains of the old one. The 90's brought chaotic mixture of fast investments, cheap but colorful materials and no control. Recently the city has been sprawling with all consequences of the process.
The project is a journey through time and space along the tramway line No. 9, one of the longest tramway lines in Warsaw. It passes by the most important places of the modern Poland’s history, e.g. brand new National Stadium, which replaced the old one that served as the biggest marketplace in Europe and local Viettown; plastic palm tree (artistic installation) right next to communist party headquarters changed into stock exchange in 1990. It crosses Vistula river, which divides the city into two antagonistic parts. Between new glass-and-steel buildings, communist housing blocks and pre-war tenement houses, there are places untouched for decades - the old world that is being slowly and quietly replaced by new reality.
We want to take the public on a virtual journey. The project will be based on contemporary footage (interviews, stories of people who live, work or travel along the line), archival images and user generated content.
Interactive documenatry will be released as responsive website for desktop (full version of virtual journey), as well as mobile version (interactive guide to be used while visiting places along the line).