We cordially invite you to the exhibition of WWB9 festival, which we designed along with large-scale interventions on Parade Square in Warsaw. The main exhibition of this year’s edition of the festival  WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION presents various faces of Plac Defilad shaped by history and transformation processes. The exhibition will look at this centrally located public space through the lens of activists, urban planners and architects; it will offer an account of several decades of planning and heated debates. The show will also report on the moments when – instead of the subsequent unimplemented concepts – the reins in the square were taken over by spontaneous urban life, free trade, triumphant cars and failing incompetent spatial management. The energy of taking matters in one’s own hands without regard for the good of the community as well as a blind eye turned to wild re-privatization of properties came well ahead of the establishment of an urban square with a democratic space. The development of the site according to the needs of the inhabitants was postponed indefinitely several times.