We have started the Erasmus Blended Intensive Programme “LOSt in Gdańsk! Sweet and salty – a tale of two waters”. On the first day we had the opportunity to welcome students from Germany, Portugal and Slovakia to the University of Gdańsk. The program participants had the opportunity to get to know not only each other, but also the city where they would spend the next week.
The main theme of the programme is the relationship between man and water, the relationship between man and nature in the context of climate change and sustainable development. We also wanted to tell, using the example of Gdańsk, about the influence of nature – in our case the sea – on culture, on the development of the city and its inhabitants, on their lifestyle, on architecture and urban planning.
That is why we visited the film café W Starym Kadrze, where students watched the film “Do widzenia, do jutra”, set in the Tri-City in the sixties. After the film, the participants of the program learned about the topography of Gdańsk, following in the footsteps of the film characters. In the topography of the city – the layout of streets, the character of buildings, and also in art, it is clearly visible how much the Baltic Sea and the Motława River have determined the shape and character of this seaside city.
