Creating spaces for free thought and free activities

Jazdów is a site to the south of Warsaw’s city centre where the initiative Open Jazdów offers a social, cultural and ecological public programme. It is well known for the small wooden houses (Finnish houses) erected there after World War II. For decades the area was all but forgotten by the city council, until about six years ago when it took the decision to dismantle the houses and destroy the surrounding gardens. Today the houses are still there. Lisa Puchner from dérive spoke to Andrzej Górz, who lives at the site, and Wojtek Matejko, who works there, about the history of the place, the threat of demolition and plans to rescue Jazdów and the Finnish houses and develop a non-commercial and autonomous space for the people of Warsaw.