One Day Parade

Parades are commemorative civic celebrations that mark a special day or event and take the form of a procession, often involving costumes, floats, inflatables and marching bands. Each parade takes a journey through the city and during its performance temporarily transforms its local urban environment.

This year the Warsaw Summer School will design, build and perform a parade on the streets of Warsaw. But before the parade can commence, a route must be found, costumes made, a mobile structure built and a performance choreographed.

The big finale – our ‘One Day Parade’ – will commemorate our collective experience of a single day in Warsaw.

The parade is the architecture of the brightly-coloured, light-weight, mobile, temporary, big, elastic, inflatable, expandable, foldable. TIME and MOVEMENT are crucial; the parade must be carefully choreographed and synchronised along the street.

Course leader

Kevin Green, Nina Shen-Poblete, Chris Burman

Target group

This course is open to students of all ages and with varying levels of experience. The course will benefit students wishing to study art, architecture or design at university as well as those who are already involved in further education. Equally the course will provide an introduction to ambitious beginners with no design background.