The seminar treats about the temporary uses in urban tissue which is one of the methods of activating abandoned buildings and the spaces between them. It might be a commercial temporary use as well as tactical urbanism, related to small interventions, which include urban prototyping and activities characterized by a grassroots nature, low budget and temporality. Usually, these interventions are temporary, but repeated cyclically, can influence the way inhabitants and city authorities think about certain spaces, which can lead to the permanent change. Temporary activities give opportunity to present the potential of forgotten underused areas.

Agata Pięt, PhD, University of Applied Sciences in NYSA