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House for Swifts is a natural sculpture that touches on the subject of the coexistence of animals and humans. It was created during a residence at the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko during a workshop with the pupils of the Youth Educational Center in Rusinów. 

The wooden installation was created with one of the many species endangered due to human interference in mind. Due to the thermal modernisation of city buildings, swifts have lost their main settlement places, which were once the alcoves of buildings. The shape of the sculpture meets the needs of birds, enabling them to set up nests and settle in its recesses, which are resistant to changing weather conditions. 

The sculpture was hung in an ethnographic open-air museum, specifically on the facade of an educational windmill in the District Museum in Konin.

Swifts are birds nesting in colonies, therefore in the first weeks after the sculpture is installed, recordings of bird singing will be played, which are to lure individuals to settle in the niches of the installation.