The Parade

STORE Summer Schools are 2-week intensive art and architecture workshops, focussing on highly collaborative and experimental spatial design and building projects. These courses often culminate in large-scale installations and ambitious public performances.

Open to all ages, they are designed to provide participants with the practical skills and conceptual framework to realise their own individual ambitions, regardless of their current level of study or practice. 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.