White Cloth Pavilion
The experience
Cloth Pavilion
The pavilion brings the issue of air pollution closer to the visitor by showing the contrast between the clean fabric and the fabric exposed to the Warsaw's air.
The pavilion is placed strategically - from within the pavilion the visitors can see the Power Station Zeran - one of the biggest coal powered plants in Warsaw.
The affect
Cloth Pavilion Stages
The cloth on the pavilion is exposed to Warsaw's air and through that it gets dirtier every day. The cloth is divided into triangular modules that can be taken off and washed separately to show the contrast between clean material and the one that was exposed to the city pollution for a few days.
The background experiment
This experiment was inspired by the current issue of air pollution in Poland and the government's pro-coal policy.
I asked my mum to put up a clean white cloth outside the window in our house that is on the outskirts of Warsaw (left hand side) and after 7 days I compared it the same cloth but clean (right hand side).
The pollution that is gathered on the cloth in just a week is the pollution that the residents of Warsaw are breathing all the time.
The bottom photo shows the comparison between the pollution gathered on a cloth in Manchester (right hand side) and Warsaw (left hand side).
The difference is even more striking if we consider that the photo from Manchester was taken close to the city centre and photo from Warsaw was taken in the suburbs.
