OUT OF SERVICE. Reinhabiting abandoned train stations in Poland.

This project evolved from the phenomenon of transport exclusion in rural Poland, where the collapse of public infrastructure has left communities disconnected and marginalized. From this starting point, the focus expanded: beyond mobility, to broader questions of connectivity, autonomy, and rural life under late capitalism. From this reading of absence, the project proposes a speculative methodology. Rather than treating architecture as a means of solving problems, it is used to test how spatial configurations might respond to shifting systemic conditions. A bottom-up network of coordinated interventions is imagined — material rehearsals that explore what becomes possible when shared infrastructures return, even temporarily. The final design focuses on three fundamental domains: food, hygiene, and housing. Through strategic architectural proposals, it asks how collective autonomy might be re-established in places left behind. These interventions aim not to restore a vanished past, but to prefigure alternative futures — embedded in the present’s overlooked spaces. Working within the cracks of late capitalism, the project positions architecture as a medium for rehearsing new forms of life: pragmatic, open-ended, and rooted in everyday needs.