00-533 Warsaw
Poland
The Bęc Zmiana Foundation operates across a number of fields, including architecture, visual arts, design, and urban cultures. Our main aim is to support the development of contemporary culture and scholarly research focussing on contemporaneity, as well as recognise the potential of public/common space. Since 2002, we have been initiating interdisciplinary actions, most of which are concerned with, and presented in, the public space.
We organize exhibitions, discussion panels, conferences, and competitions. We support academic research regarding contemporary culture. We publish periodicals: „Notes na 6 tygodni” [Journal/Notebook for 6 weeks] – a richly illustrated, free magazine presenting the most interesting events and developments in the area of contemporary culture, and „Format P” – a quarterly journal dedicated to the field of humanities.
We are a publisher of books focussing on architecture and its social impact, contemporary, graphic design, visual research, and cultural economy.
Our activity would not be feasible without the income from, among other sources, our economic activities: we run a bookstore and publish and distribute books. We organize competitions for artists, architects, and designers. As part of our activities we happily cooperate with initiatives, individuals, institutions, entities, and organizations with similar goals to ours.