Train Station Project
The project done by Julia Biczysko, Asia Zięba and Agata Pietrzyk was focused on one particular point in Gozdowo’s map: the old train station that had long fallen out of use. We wanted to make this place alive again and learn how it was perceived by people who lived in Gozdowo. What made us even more interested in this place was its location - far from the town centre, transgressing the notions of usability and even propriety.
We set out to work with children first, asking them to draw, cut and spray with paint stencils of trains and all things associated with it. Their works turned out to be an inspiration for us and became a basic idea of a poster promoting Train Station Project.
We placed three pieces of Plexiglass opposite three walls of the train station building. On each of them we made an outline of the building itself, so that one could see it in miniature. Three groups of people (different age groups) used our outlines as a background for their own drawings then. Thus we met three different ways of looking at the old train station.
Apart from all that, our project became one of the elements of the field game when participants were asked to find a hidden sign and draw their own imaginary station on the Plexiglass.