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From 2016 she studied at The Institute of Creative Photography in Opava. She is interested in organic and vernacular architecture, dynamic spaces, without final shape. 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","body":"<p>\"To see where the ground leaves off and the building begins would require careful attention. But this organic \u201dground-motive\u201d, variety in unity. Once established in general practise, would be definite and Infinite.\" [Frank Lloyd Wright, The Living City, New York 1958]<\/p><p>Tufo is a type of a volcanic rock and Sassi is a city excavated in tufo. Sassi has been isolated from civilization until \u201950s of the 20th century. When public opinion called this place \u201cshame of Italy\u201d, because of the poverty and unhealthy living conditions. Some people were living in a kind of cave houses. For this reason, authorities made decision to relocate autochthons to new social houses. Thus, the city was abandoned until \u201980s. But later, Sassi started to be consider as a cultural heritage and has been included on the UNESCO list. Today this is a desirable place. New incomers have inhabited Sassi and fancy hotels and restaurants have been opened. The process of gentrification has been going on.<\/p><p>Sassi means stone. The city is an inhabited landscape and culture-nature distinction is blurred here. Sassi has been constructed for hundreds of years and is an example of vernacular architecture \u2013 made without architects and without projects. Space morphology could be depicted as a tension between negative and positive form or volume and void.<\/p>","body_raw":"\"To see where the ground leaves off and the building begins would require careful attention. But this organic \u201dground-motive\u201d, variety in unity. Once established in general practise, would be definite and Infinite.\" [Frank Lloyd Wright, The Living City, New York 1958]\n\nTufo is a type of a volcanic rock and Sassi is a city excavated in tufo. Sassi has been isolated from civilization until \u201950s of the 20th century. When public opinion called this place \u201cshame of Italy\u201d, because of the poverty and unhealthy living conditions. Some people were living in a kind of cave houses. For this reason, authorities made decision to relocate autochthons to new social houses. Thus, the city was abandoned until \u201980s. But later, Sassi started to be consider as a cultural heritage and has been included on the UNESCO list. Today this is a desirable place. New incomers have inhabited Sassi and fancy hotels and restaurants have been opened. The process of gentrification has been going on.\nSassi means stone. The city is an inhabited landscape and culture-nature distinction is blurred here. Sassi has been constructed for hundreds of years and is an example of vernacular architecture \u2013 made without architects and without projects. 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She currently lives and works in Wroc\u0142aw, Poland.\n\nShort bio:\n2018 \u2013 showcase on the group exhibition Better Tomorrow, BWA Wroc\u0142aw (Poland)\n2018 \u2013 showcase on the group exhibition Survival 2018, Wroc\u0142aw (Poland)\n2018 \u2013 shortlisted and projection at New Chic, Riga Photomonth 2018, Latvia,\n2018 \u2013 projection at the group exhibition of ITF Opava, Prague Photo 2018 \n2018 \u2013 grant of Polish Culture Around the World, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland\n2018 \u2013 showcase on the group exhibition Different Worlds 2017 in Photon gallery, Vienna (Austria),\n2017 \u2013 open call 1st prize and showcase on the group exhibition Different Worlds 2017 in Photon gallery, Ljubjana (Slovenia),\n2017 \u2013 projection at the group exhibition of ITF Opava,\n2017 \u2013 shortlisted in The Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2017,\n2017 \u2013 shortlisted in The Lucie Foundation Scholarship Program,\n2017 \u2013 finalist in the Urban 2017 Photo Awards,\n2017 \u2013 group exhibition at the Reclaim Photography Festival,\n2016 \u2013 began bachelor's degree in photography in ITF Opava,\n2016 \u2013 3 x Honorable Mention in The International Photography Awards, \n2016 \u2013 Scholarship from Wroc\u0142aw City Mayor for academic and art achievements, \n2015 \u2013 honorable Mention in The International Photography Awards, "}},"meta":{"is_liked":false,"like_count":0,"has_curators_pick_photographer":true},"activity_attributes":{"place":"Italy; Matera, Basilicate, Italy","image_filename":"\/users\/25376\/stories\/13514\/pefplc5ccbe22cc1.jpg","video_service":null,"video_code":null},"url":"\/Aleksandra\/story\/tufo-e8333ad1ad","comments":[],"places":[{"id":145444,"city":null,"region":null,"country":"Italy","country_code":"IT","continent":"Europe","lat":"41.87194","lon":"12.56738","verified":0,"created_at":"2015-11-13 13:57:17","updated_at":"2016-02-04 16:08:41","name":"Italy","pivot":{"story_id":13514,"place_id":145444}},{"id":82294,"city":"Matera","region":"Basilicate","country":"Italy","country_code":"IT","continent":"Europe","lat":"40.66599","lon":"16.60463","verified":1,"created_at":"-0001-11-30 00:00:00","updated_at":"2015-11-27 21:51:32","name":"Matera, Basilicate, Italy","pivot":{"story_id":13514,"place_id":82294}}],"place":null,"cover_block_image":{"id":142386,"story_id":13514,"image_id":211668,"video_id":null,"caption":null,"caption_raw":null,"position":0,"is_explicit":null,"is_admin_explicit":null,"is_legacy":null,"legacy_id":null,"created_at":"2018-09-02 15:27:12","updated_at":"2018-09-02 15:27:12","meta":{"is_liked":false,"like_count":0},"activity_attributes":{"story":{"title":"Tufo","started_at":"2016-01-01 00:00:00","ended_at":"2017-01-01 00:00:00","slug":"tufo-e8333ad1ad","place":null,"user":{"firstname":"Aleksandra","lastname":"Nowysz","username":"Aleksandra","profile":{"avatar":"\/users\/25376\/avatars\/pefrvk8cf2fc21e7.jpg"}}},"image_filename":"\/users\/25376\/stories\/13514\/pefplc5ccbe22cc1.jpg","video_meta":null},"image":{"id":211668,"filename":"\/users\/25376\/stories\/13514\/pefplc5ccbe22cc1.jpg","created_at":"2018-09-02 15:27:12","updated_at":"2018-09-02 15:27:12"},"video":null}}},{"id":39048,"user_id":25376,"object_id":14704,"object_type":"App\\Story","published_at":"2018-09-02 16:28:54","created_at":"2018-09-02 16:28:54","updated_at":"2018-09-02 16:28:54","user_attributes":{"id":25376,"firstname":"Aleksandra","lastname":"Nowysz","username":"Aleksandra","name":"Aleksandra Nowysz","profile":{"avatar":"\/users\/25376\/avatars\/pefrvk8cf2fc21e7.jpg","cover_image":null,"nationality":"Polish","currently_in":{"id":107728,"city":"Wroc\u0142aw","region":"Lower Silesian Voivodeship","country":"Poland","country_code":"PL","continent":"Europe","lat":"51.1","lon":"17.03333","verified":1,"created_at":"-0001-11-30 00:00:00","updated_at":"2015-11-27 21:52:09","name":"Wroc\u0142aw, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland"},"bio":"Aleksandra Nowysz (1987) is an architect, junior researcher and a photographer. 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The story is about some alternative place in a city, which lives beyond a profit maximization paradigm and beyond an urban order.<\/p>","excerpt_raw":"Better tomorrow is an original name of one allotment in Poland. The story is about some alternative place in a city, which lives beyond a profit maximization paradigm and beyond an urban order.","body":"<p>\"Cities are huge mouths. Essentially the farmer is food-master for the great mouth. He has many subsidiaries, but his primary job is to feed these great feudal survivals of the city (\u2026). Without the farmer our towns and cities, big and small, would go naked and starve.\" [F. L. Wright, The Living City, Nowy Jork 1958]<\/p><p>Allotment gardens are remains of modern, utopian visions from industrial era. The aim was to provide new urban dwellers a piece of land to produce their own food. Some of the first gardens survived until now and are an extraordinary instance of agrarian landscape in cities. Furthermore, allotments are created by their users - the gardeners, members of community. As a result, this landscape is combination of nature and art brut, that gives a fairy tale aesthetic. Nowadays, urban farming is rising as citizens right to produce food and cultivate land.<\/p><p>Better tomorrow is an original name of one allotment in Poland. The story is about some alternative place in a city, which lives beyond a profit maximization paradigm and beyond an urban order. The project refers to visions of ideal cities from the industrial era. To emphasise its utopian element, it focuses on garden as an ideal space and an oneiric esthetic like from a wonderland.<\/p><p>By photographing allotments, I attempts to point out an optional approach to human habitat and food production. I see garden as a proper model of our activity on the environment.<\/p>","body_raw":"\"Cities are huge mouths. Essentially the farmer is food-master for the great mouth. He has many subsidiaries, but his primary job is to feed these great feudal survivals of the city (\u2026). Without the farmer our towns and cities, big and small, would go naked and starve.\" [F. L. Wright, The Living City, Nowy Jork 1958]\n\nAllotment gardens are remains of modern, utopian visions from industrial era. The aim was to provide new urban dwellers a piece of land to produce their own food. Some of the first gardens survived until now and are an extraordinary instance of agrarian landscape in cities. Furthermore, allotments are created by their users - the gardeners, members of community. As a result, this landscape is combination of nature and art brut, that gives a fairy tale aesthetic. Nowadays, urban farming is rising as citizens right to produce food and cultivate land.\nBetter tomorrow is an original name of one allotment in Poland. The story is about some alternative place in a city, which lives beyond a profit maximization paradigm and beyond an urban order. 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