The Odyseja Nowohucka 2025 festival opened the doors to the Kombinat Administration Centre, also known as the 'Doge's Palace', a renowned building in the history of Polish architecture and design. Organised by Teatr Łaźnia Nowa and Dom Utopii, and curated by Łukasz Trzciński, the festival offered visitors the chance to explore the building's many rooms and corridors during performative tours. Visitors were guided through mysterious rooms, halls, and corridors filled with video and sound installations, images, and live performances by 22 artists.

Nowa Huta is a unique testimony to urban and social 're-figuration' in today's Europe. Originally designed from the top down as an ideological, socialist, and urban planningproject, Nowa Huta has been undergoing an ongoing economic and social transformationsince 1989. The accompanying geographical changes and the progressive changes of Kraków have led to new residents, different everyday activities, and altered patterns of movement. The audiosphere is also undergoing a profound transformation, which is linked, for example, to the closure of the industrial context.

The audio-visual installation draws on the long-term projects 'Daily Routes (Nowa Huta)' and 'Cityscape (Nowa Huta)' (2023) by Simone Rueß, as well as the soundscapes recorded by Rafał Mazur in Nowa Huta over the last few years. Edited especially for Odyseja Nowohucka 2025, this 1-channel projection combines analyses of urban structures and soundscapes in the form of hybrid mapping. It fills the former theatre hall of the Administrative Centre with the voices of Nowa Huta's inhabitants and non-human beings, creating multiple patterns and reflecting on the historical and social characteristics and transformations of this unique cityscape.