MAKING MISTAKES
International Workshop Week,
Academy of Fine Arts Gdansk,
Gdansk, Poland, 2026
Reconceptualizes mistakes as generative rather than corrective.
Treats error, imperfection, and deviation as productive forces for
adaptive, collaborative, and materially responsive design.
Challenges conventional paradigms of control, optimization, and
mastery in architecture.
What spatial, material, and aesthetic conditions emerge when
indeterminacy is embraced?
Can such architectures be more resilient, sustainable, and socially
relevant?
„...bravely considering the implications
of what you see around you and learning
from them. Doing so may make your work
look incredibly ugly - even to you. But that
is the way aesthetic sensibilities change.
New patterns and new societies tend to
produce things we find ugly (...). But people
grow to love them because they are, in the
end, right.“
Denise Scott Brown in „Architecture, Signs, and Social Values. Marta Nowak in
conversation with Denise Scott Brown“, 2013