The final weeks of the "Plac Grunwaldzki: Archive of Everyday Life" project are upon us. We've planned three unique events for you, focusing on everyday life in our neighborhood. We invite residents of the neighborhood, as well as anyone connected to or simply interested in Grunwald, to each of them.
In the coming weeks, we will meet twice to listen to memories, share our own experiences, and discuss everyday life in the estate. This is a great opportunity to hear how others remember Grunwald and to view our estate from different perspectives. The final event will be an artistic activity related to the release of a publication we developed together with a group of artists invited to the project. A temporary exhibition accompanying the publication will await you on-site – you can see it only on this one day! Come, listen, share your story, and join us in the final stage of our collaborative work on another story about Grunwald.
Project "„Plac Grunwaldzki: Everyday Life Archive” is a series of activities around memory and everyday experiences related to life in the estate, which we carry out as part of the program KPO for culture. We combine identity work, meetings with residents, and artistic activities that allow us to tell the story of Grunwald in a contemporary and everyday way. One of the project's outcomes is an artistic zine and accompanying events.
Summary of the most important information:
Neighborhood meetings (lectures and conversations) will be held:
- When? January 29, 2026, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
- Where? PiKawka, ul. Michała Wrocławczyka 40/U1B
- Location on Google Maps: link
- When? February 12, 2026, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
- Where? Coffilm, ul. Grunwaldzka 38/2
- Location on Google Maps: link
Admission to both events is free and requires no prior registration. We're organizing meetings in local cafes because they're a natural place to spend free time in Grunwald, but also because we want to support small, local businesses. Remember, every cup of coffee or tea you buy helps these businesses operate in our neighborhood!
The finale of the project – the premiere of the art zine and the accompanying exhibition will take place:
- When? February 18, 2026, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
- Where? The Clinical Campus of the Medical University of Wrocław
Due to the specific nature of the event space, the exhibition will be available for viewing in organized, limited groups. The rooms provided by the Medical University of Wrocław are currently closed to visitors. Registration for this event will open on January 28, 2026 – registration will be available via the online form, by phone/text message – (71) 757 15 87 and (+48) 573 815 456 – or by email (anna.komsta@ladnehistorie.pl) or in person at the Plac Grunwaldzki OD NOWA Center.
Our partners are Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Piastów Śląskich in Wrocław, Center for Medical Discovery and local cafes – PiKawka and Coffilm. The media patron of the project is Academic Radio LUZ.
Neighborhood meetings – lectures and discussions
„"Everyday Life in Grunwald in Neighborhood Stories. Share Your Memories!" is a special element of our project. It's a moment—encapsulated in a lecture and neighborhood discussion format—in which all the activities conducted over the past few months—collecting memories, talking with residents, working with archives and local histories—form into a larger narrative about the identity of our neighborhood. A living, evolving identity, built through everyday life, neighborly relationships, and the long-standing coexistence of two communities: the local and the academic.
The project, implemented as part of KPO, expands on the Foundation's long-standing efforts to build social memory and identity. Its primary goal is to document the daily life of the Plac Grunwaldzki estate – both that which takes place in the apartments, courtyards, and local shops, as well as that which has been co-created for decades by Wrocław's four most important universities. It is the presence of the academic community that gives Grunwald its unique rhythm.
The event centers on two lectures combined with conversations that will explore academic and neighborhood life from diverse perspectives—historical, social, institutional, and personal. Our guests are residents of the neighborhood, and their experiences and knowledge open up new areas of reflection and invite neighborly conversation.
In the coming weeks, we will meet twice to listen to these stories, share our own experiences, and reflect on what everyday life was and is like in Grunwald. The meeting will also provide an opportunity to consider how to further develop our neighborhood archive in Grunwald.
We invited guests whose profiles combine the world of neighborhood integration, autobiographical and social themes, as well as academic life, to join neighborly conversations about Grunwald.
The first is Ewa – a senior citizen, chronicler of everyday life in Grunwald, full of energy, reflection, and an extraordinary memory. Her stories – based on old photos, documents, and family artifacts – form a living archive of the estate. Ewa has been involved in the activities of the Ładne Historie Foundation and the Plac Grunwaldzki OD NOWA Center for years, and her authentic voice is an interesting, vibrant, and important element of local memory.
The second guest is Julita, a social activist and specialist in the heritage of the Medical University of Warsaw, working at the Center for Medical Discovery. Her work combines science, history, and education, creating modern, immersive narratives about medicine and its creators. The Center will become one of the first places in Europe to inspire the discovery of science in such an innovative way. Her perspective will allow us to understand how the history of the university and everyday academic life fit into the fabric of the neighborhood.
We invite residents, people associated with the estate, students, alumni, and anyone who wants to see Plac Grunwaldzki from a new perspective to unique meetings. Together, we will create a space for conversation, listening, and co-creation – because an archive of everyday life only comes into being when people come together and share what matters to them.
Neighborhood meetings with lectures and conversations in the series "Everyday Life in Grunwald in Neighborhood Stories. Share Your Memories!" will take place in unique locations around Gruwaldzki Square:
- 29/01/2026, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. / PiKawka, ul. Michała Wrocławczyka 40/U1B
- 12/02/2026, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. / Coffilm, Grunwaldzka Street 38/2
- Admission is free! No reservations required.
- Rules for both events: https://bit.ly/ArchiwumZyciaCodziennegoRegulamin
See Plac Grunwaldzki through the eyes of artists – exhibition and premiere of an art zine
- February 18, 2026, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM / Campus of the Clinics of the Medical University of Wrocław
- Meeting point: The meeting point will be announced when registration for the event opens.
The exhibition is a one-night presentation of selected works created as part of an art zine. Some of the materials from the publication will be displayed in a space not normally accessible – in one of the rooms at the Medical University Clinics Campus. The exhibition is multi-sensory: alongside photographs, graphics, texts, and comics, there will also be a soundtrack.
The premiere of the zine and the exhibition will be accompanied by a conversation with the creators, devoted to the work process and different ways of telling the story of everyday life in Grunwald.
Registration for the event is required via:
- online form available from January 28, 2026
- phone/SMS (71) 757 15 87 and (+48) 573 815 456
- or in person at the Plac Grunwaldzki OD NOWA Center.
People we invited to participate in the project:
Ania Lewińska (substantive supervisor of the group and host of the first two events), Ewa Głowacka (substantive supervisor of the group and author of the graphic design of the zine), Julita Pacana (host on 29/01/2026), Ewa Sadowska (host on 12/02/2026), Maciej Przestalski (moderator of the final meeting), Ioannis Anastasiou (member of the working group), Majka Dokudowicz (member of the working group), Marta Falkowska (member of the working group), Agata Grzych (member of the working group) Kamil Kawalec (member of the working group), Anna Komsta (member of the working group), Agata Dyczko (author of the soundtrack for the exhibition).
The project is co-financed by the European Union under the European Recovery and Resilience Facility (NextGenerationEU) as part of the National Recovery Plan. #KPOdlaKultury
