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'Dissonant' Heritage of Nowa Huta's Shelters View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Jagiellonian Univeristy Repository e-ISSN 2080-6922 DOI: 10.2478/tour-2019-0001 ISSN 0867-5856 Tourism 2019, 29/1 Magdalena Banaszkiewicz ORCID 0000-0002-4020-6308 Jagiellonian University in Cracow Faculty of International and Political Studies Faculty of International Cultural Studies [email protected] Zbigniew Semik Pedagogical University in Cracow Institute of History and Archival Studies [email protected] THE ‘DISSONANT’ HERITAGE OF NOWA HUTA’S SHELTERS: BETWEEN EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT Abstract: The following article attempts to show how the heritage space of Nowa Huta undergoes gradual transformation under the influence of tourism. An example, which is going to be examined, is a new tourist route presenting the heritage of shelters at Nowa Huta. The context for this discussion is the concept of edutainment, which is a form of education through entertainment. It will be discussed that the inclusion of entertainment elements in the process of dissonant heritage interpretation, is a solution that facilitates noticing ambivalences resulting from the complex nature of the past, and thus contributes to more profound understanding and opens a space for the acceptance of the heritage. Keywords: Heritage, tourism, education, Nowa Huta, shalters. 1. INTRODUCTION Nowa Huta has, in recent years, gained the attention cultural and tourist offer, addressed to both tourists and of the researchers of various disciplines focusing on the the district’s residents, has been modified and expanded. different aspects of life in the district (Gądecki, 2012; An example, which is examined, is a new tourist route Golonka-Czajkowska, 2013; Poźniak, 2014). The thread presenting the heritage of shelters at Nowa Huta. The that connects most studies on Nowa Huta is a reflec- context for this discussion is the concept of ‘edutain- tion on its current situation but seen in the context ment’, a form of education through entertainment. The of the past. These writers specifically highlight that it is argument presented here is that the inclusion of enter- difficult to study today’s Nowa Huta without reference tainment elements in the process of dissonant heritage to history which penetrates the present and determines interpretation, is a solution that facilitates the exhibition the fate of the people and places there. The following of ambivalences resulting from the complex nature of the article attempts to show one situation where heritage past, and thus contributes to a more profound under- space has undergone a process of gradual transforma- standing while opening a space for the acceptance of that tion under the influence of tourist demand. Owing to heritage. The method of gathering data for this project its specific history the district may be termed ‘dissonant’ mixed desk research (local press, local authority docu- heritage. However, this does not change the fact (or ments, project documentation) with autoethnography perhaps is the main reason) that more and more tour- and observations based on the involvement of one of the ists come to Nowa Huta every year. As a result, the authors in the process of creating the new tourist route. © 2019 Magdalena Banaszkiewicz, Zbigniew Semik. This is an open access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Cover date: June 2019 Unauthentifiziert | Heruntergeladen 26.02.20 13:11 UTC 8 Tourism 2019, 29/1 2. NOWA HUTA AS ‘DISSONANT’ a process of negotiation, questioning and counter argu- HERITAGE SITE ing by the participants in the debate. Even if the urban design of Nowa Huta has entered the city of Kraków as a representative example of cultural and social realism Nowa Huta, being currently the easternmost and the of urban planning in Poland, it does not mean that it is most populous district of Kraków, appeared as a result of automatically regarded by the people (i.e. Kraków’s the establishment of the Lenin steelworks in the 1950s. citizens) as heritage (Klaś, 2016; Salwiński, Sibila, 2008). Paradoxically, although the town was supposed to Heritage can be perceived as a form of social/ fulfill the idea of a socialist-realist perfect city, where all cultural/collective memory that explicitly draws iden- the inhabitants would live and work with the aim of tification through the concept of ownership of the past constructing the ‘bright future’ of the socialist utopia, (Smith, 2006). In a society of the contested past, the Nowa Huta became one of the most ideologically defiant narrative about its heritage is far from being ‘shared’ parts of Kraków, struggling in the 1960s against the (Tunbridge, Ashworth, 1996). Therefore, probably the policy of atheization and in 1980’s by joining on a mass most appropriate term which could be applied in scale the Solidarity trade union movement (Dzieszyń- the case of Nowa Huta is ‘dissonant’ heritage which, as ski, Franczyk 2010; Jagło, Lempart 2013; Lebow 2013). Ashworth concludes, “generally means a lack of har- After the collapse of socialism, Nowa Huta had to mony in time and space between people and their heri- confront a completely new situation, both from an eco- tage” (Ashworth, 2002, p. 363) This dissonance, accord- nomic and social perspective (Poźniak, 2014; Stenning, ing to Tunbridge & Ashworth (1996), reveals itself in two Smith, Rochovská, Świątek, 2010). Simultaneously, built situations. First, when the dominant narrative does not as Poland’s flagship socialist city embodying the utopian match the interpretation(s) of different interest groups, political project (Majewska, 2011), Nowa Huta was still when it omits aspects they consider important, or high- considered to be a symbol of the former epoch. As such, lights those which should not be so prominent. As in the new reality of democracy and a free economy, Smith & Hall indicate, much of Central and Eastern it was, for the most part, connected with the negative Europe’s common recent heritage is “likely to be a con- stereotype of a gloomy, dangerous and deadend site tested battleground where political, economic, social and (Poźniak, 2014, pp. 100-123). This ambivalent attitude cultural priorities often become gridlocked” (Smith, Hall, consists of a number of factors which have become spe- 2006, p. 36). cific myths over time and their origins should be sought The second situation causing dissonance occurs in the very early days of the district. The first was the when heritage is subject to commercialization which fact that Nowa Huta was designed as a separate city, transforms it into a product for sale. In this case, the which was perceived as an attempt to deprive Kraków main catalyst is the volume of tourism leading to her- of its due rank. It was also related to the demographic itage becoming a tourist attraction. Both tangible and composition of the new residents, mainly peasants and intangible cultural assets are then faced with market workers, which resulted in the district’s image as a dan- realities, in which the ethics of sustainable develop- gerous place prone to out-breaks of violence. Another ment often give way to temporarily to the values of issue contributing to the negative perception was urban the market. On the other hand, noticing the value of its planning itself. Although its urban design is an excel- own cultural heritage when it starts to arouse interest lent example of architecture from the period of social- among visiting tourists, is a characteristic phenomenon. ist realism, it was considered to be in a Soviet style. Such a relationship has been observed at Nowa Huta Even though the building project was introduced by the in recent years where the local population (especially very talented Cracovian architect Tadeusz Ptaszycki, new residents) start to appreciate the uniqueness of the who drew inspiration from such prominent architec- place regardless of the negative myths that prevailed tural ideas as St. Peter’s Square, Place Vendome and previously (Poźniak, 2014). Undoubtedly, a very specific Hausmann’s work in Paris (Klimek, 2013; Klaś, 2016), tourist product, the so-called communist tours, has the project was treated as one enforced by a foreign become an important factor contributing to the rise in ruler, therefore was aesthetically rejected by many citi- popularity of Nowa Huta among a growing number zens. Last, but not least, the steelworks were accused of mostly foreign visitors (Knudsen, 2010; Whigham, of pollution both nearby and more distantly, which 2013). As Banaszkiewicz (2018) depicts at the beginning, was particularly highlighted in the transitional period. the tours aroused very mixed feelings among district All of these issues were rooted in reality, how- residents both by the commodification of the their ever the scale to which they were inflated, greatly district as well as the interpretation of its past: many exceeded the underlying problems of their origin. That felt disinherited by means of the specific narrative is why, today’s perception of Nowa Huta as heritage is offered by guides (with a large amount of irony, based strongly marked by the myths that shaped narrative on anecdotes, and treating the past with a cool distance). about the district. The shaping of heritage is related to However, what aroused the greatest doubts, was the Unauthentifiziert | Heruntergeladen 26.02.20 13:11 UTC Articles 9 form of touring the district offered by ‘crazy guides’, Tourism based on products that give pleasure and which was very different from the standard guide relaxation, referred to as 3S (sun, sea, sand), has become service and drifting towards a ‘mini-show’. At the time a designate of the most popular type of mass, i.e. holi- when the ‘crazy guides’ began operating, the element days at resorts in warm countries. However, with the of entertainment, treated as part of the cognitive pro- tremendous development of tourism over the last cess, was a radical novelty in the local tourist space.
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