Publications

The publication follows a workshop on writing scripts for narrative games as part of the WIRE project “Solidarity: Women in Opposition.” During the workshop, led by experts from the Krakow Technology Park, participants discovered the potential of the narrative game as an educational tool and created their own game prototypes, inspired by the biographies of women activists associated with Solidarity. The goal of the workshop was to break the conventional historical discourse based on the male perspective and to gain a deeper understanding of the dilemmas faced by women involved in the opposition movement. Narrative games that allow people to impersonate female characters inspired by the figures of female Solidarity activists are particularly conducive to a deeper understanding of their situation and choices.

“Radar” is an international literary magazine published in German, Polish and Ukrainian at Villa Decius from 2010 to 2014. The idea behind “Radar” was to create a common space for dialogue for writers from different parts of Europe doing their literary residencies at Villa Decius. Through the topics covered in its pages, ‘Radar’ witnessed many historical events important for these countries, but also in a broader perspective for Europe as a whole. The magazine’s innovative trilingual form was aimed in particular at presenting a tripartite perspective on experiences shared by Poles, Germans and Ukrainians. Nine years after the last issue of “Radar” was published, we decided to prepare a unique trilingual (Polish-Ukrainian-German) publication, which refers to the previous issues of “Radar” published between 2010 and 2014. For the pages of the new issue, we invited people who created “Radar” years ago: authors and actresses, translators and interpreters, scholarship holders and grantees of Villa Decius. The special issue of Radar was published on 17 January 2023 thanks to financial support from the Stabilisation Fund for Culture and Education of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut.

A collection of national sources on the regulation and practice of the protection of cultural property. The publication is the result of the project: “Intersectoral challenges: specialist in the protection of cultural property in case of emergencies and war – development of a postgraduate program, dedicated to employees working at the borderline of fields”, implemented in 2020-2022 in partnership by three institutions: Villa Decius Association (leader), the Bohaterów Westerplatte Naval Academy in Gdynia and the Villa Decius Institute for Culture, funded by the EEA 2014-2022.

A collection of case studies, problem issues, instructions and forms for use. The publication is the result of the project: “Intersectoral Challenges: specialist in the protection of cultural assets in case of emergencies and war – development of a program of postgraduate studies, dedicated to employees working at the border of disciplines”, implemented in 2020-2022 in partnership by three institutions: Villa Decius Association (leader), the Bohaterów Westerplatte Naval Academy in Gdynia and the Villa Decius Institute for Culture, funded by the EEA 2014-2022.

The second volume of the monograph published as part of the collection of publications “Protection of Cultural Property in Situations of Crisis and Armed Conflict”. The handbook includes a study of the legal status in international terms, aspects of protection in a situation of armed conflict, NATO doctrine, CIMIC and the experience of the time of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The publication is the result of the project: “Intersectoral Challenges: specialist in the protection of cultural assets in case of crisis and war – development of a program of postgraduate studies, dedicated to employees operating at the border of fields”, implemented from 2020 to 2022 in partnership by three institutions: Villa Decius Association (leader), the Bohaterów Westerplatte Naval Academy in Gdynia and the Villa Decius Institute for Culture, funded by the EEA 2014-2022.