I think its more than three years ago we ended our project in pedestrian subway called PODCHOD.
We started this project in the year 2001 as a students of theater faculty(academy of fine arts, film faculty and so on) and the beginning was enthusiastic. We were non-professional in this kind of work.

This subway was really very strange place and also the housing estate all around is inhospitable, but our expectations were big. We started with artistic ambitions, but very soon we saw that the problem is more complicated. It was not possible just to take the place-subway for our activities. It was necessary to communicate with the people living there, with children playing there … We started to evolve our project in many levels - in cooperation with architects we prepare urbanistic study of the area (and they create proposal of solution critic urbanist situation in this housing estate), with sociologist we prepare
project about mysterious places in this area (in cooperation with local primary schools) - we collected children stories about most mysterious places and it was also a part of our perfomance in subway (children took also part on it, two girls from our group work with them during two years continuously), this stories were also basis for table game we created and so on. We organised there also small theatre festivals, hip hop workshops for children, film projections, happenigs with reading visitors’ own poetry, christmas parade through the housing estate, wall painting inside of the subway (in the darkness), readings of new translated theater plays. But the first thing we did was cleaning happenig in this dirty subway full of shit and syringes.
But slowly we started to be jaded. Very complicated was also the team work and it was heavy to work almost without money (to find some foundation for project like this was not simple), we had also tense relationship with the town hall (they prefer another kind of solution - to build Tesco hypermarket with entertaiment center). Slowly it was no more possible to do it just occasionally - like a hobby. And nobody wanted to take all the responsibility and continue in this project like his full job. Another problem was that the people in this project had very different goals and motivations to do it.