About the underground of Warsaw
27 03 2025
An international conference on underground spaces of large cities will be held on 3-4.04.2025 at the Old Library on the UW campus at Krakowskie Przedmieście. On the part of the UW, the event is organised by the Center for Research on Culture of Warsaw and the Centre for French Culture and Francophone Studies.
In the conference entitled “The Underground of Warsaw in the European Context. The Hidden Faces of the City, from post-war reconstruction to present-day development” on the function and significance of the undergrounds of major cities will bring together experts from Paris, Naples, Luxembourg, Kharkiv and Lviv. The aim of the event is to initiate a discussion on the function of urban undergrounds, above all the undergrounds of Warsaw, in the present-day world, as well as to examine the issue of structural diversity and social traces in the history of undergrounds and to discuss the challenges and solutions related to the protection, access and modernisation of these unique places. An important element of the debate will be the subject of the post-war reconstruction of Warsaw and the strategy of treating the then underground infrastructure of the city.
Scientists, artists, conservationists, architects, public and private stakeholders, as well as the users of underground areas themselves, have planned their participation in the event.
Free entry. Registration applies.