Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: P o l i s h M e m o r y C ounterculture impulses, practices, and influences not only shaped the cultural identity of Wrocław at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, but also had an effect on the topography of how it was imagined as an open city, joined by an unusual network, a playing field with changing rules.In no other Polish city did counterculture inspirations weave such a tight fabric of innovative and interconnected institutions, projects, and ideas.Wrocław's location played a part here -it was isolated from the national narratives and located in the sphere of transnational influence, with a potential to challenge prevailing views.This sudden, abrupt, and ephemeral bloom occurred in a city whose history is perhaps postwar Europe's most remarkable social laboratory.As Ewa Rewers contests, the urban space "stimulates our cognitive activity, opens prospects of new streets leading in unfamiliar directions."1The city creates a condensed space, in which multitudes of social, ideological, 1 Ewa Rewers, "Gdańsk jako narracja: nawarstwianie czy modyfikacja" [Gdańsk as a narrative: Layering or modification], Ars Educandi 2 (2000): 109.
Source: Teksty Drugie
Author: Grzegorz Niziołek
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4401342585