At the Lincoln School of Architecture, 4th year students are asked to analyse a city, tell a story about the city and suggest their own vision for it. What could be a better way to start this project and understanding a city than visiting it? So this is what we did.
Our school organised a student trip to Gdansk in Poland this November. This thoroughly amazing city with rich and fascinating history and a fast growing modern urban fabric has been presented to us by our partners from the Gdansk University of Technology (GUT). Over the 5 days of our visit, our guide – Jacek Józekowski, a local architect who teaches at GUT, offered an in-depth insight to the history and the potential of the city and accompanied us to key modern architectural sites: Museum of World War II, Solidarity Centre and others. Visiting a number of unique places in Gdansk offered students a strong and good basis for developing the project but we hope it was also much more…
Of course, the trip was an opportunity not only to experience modern cutting-edge architecture, but also good Polish food, the local pub culture and night life.
The trip was possible thanks the Erasmus+ exchange scheme, so we are grateful for the EU support, thanks to which we had the opportunity to cooperate with the Gdansk Technical University. We hope that this collaboration will flourish in the future.
text & images: Marcin Kolakowski