DIY satellite ground station workshop at Ujazdowski Castle for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland. July 2022. Image: open-weather

Ujazdowski Castle for Contemporary Art Residency

Project Talk Workshop
Ujazdowski Castle for Contemporary Art Poland
April – July 2022

For three months in Spring 2022, open-weather was in residence at Ujazdowski Castle for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland.

During our residency, we developed open-weather apt, our accessible, browser based satellite image decoder for all practitioners.

We also led a DIY satellite ground station workshop at Ujazdowski Castle with Olga Miękus, Karolina Pawelczyk and Kuba Szreder. Olga, Karolina and Kuba travelled to Opolno-Zdrój, a former spa town located at the edge of the infamous Turów coal mine in Southwestern Poland, to set up a DIY satellite ground station and collect images with primary school children. The ground station is currently maintained by a Geography teacher in the local school.

▴ Children and their geography teacher operate a DIY satellite ground station in Opolno-Zdrój. Image: Unknown
▴ Olga Miękus, Karolina Pawelczyk and Kuba Szreder facilitate a DIY satellite ground station workshop with children in Opolno-Zdrój. Image: Karolina Pawelczyk

Credits

Thank you to Marianna Dobkowska for the invitation to be in residence at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art.

Thank you to Ju Bellard, Donghwan Kam, Yulia Kostereva and Michelle Woods for being co-residents.