Q&A: Marek Pisarski
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In Search of the Blue Ocean
Park World Magazine caught up with Marek Pisarski - a pioneer of the Polish theme park and attractions industry.
PW: Marek, on your website there's a profile photo of you sitting on a wooden dinosaur. How should we read that - do you already feel like a dinosaur yourself? MP: Yes, it's a bit of a joke, but more seriously, dinosaurs were a very important starting point in my work in the edutainment industry. I'd like to say it was all carefully planned, but as usual, it came down to chance: the Ikea group asked me for a strong central theme for a planned event. And literally a month earlier, on my way to lunch, I'd come across a dinosaur park in Germany. Working quickly with the substantive support of renowned paleontologists, I put together the its huge success, I took it on the road for six years and became the main organizer of touring became the main exhibition theme, and dinosaur theme parks began springing up everywhere.
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new-generation shopping center, combining retail and entertainment in a way that hadn't existed before. Second, this September marks 41 years since I started my professional working life.
PW: Why is this photo so important to you? MP: For a couple of reasons. Firstly, it was taken by my friend Marian Zawali dinosaur parks we had been asked to redesign functionally. I met him while working on the first unusual, unique exhibition about World War - the most recognizable
PW: How did it all begin? MP: in deep economic crisis at the time. I completed my studies in tourism geography there and later worked, on a voluntary basis, looking for ways to make the city more attractive to visitors. had no recognizable tourist attractions, I proposed park came from, at a 1:25 scale. In the end, the , but the idea spread across the whole country. From 2005 onward, dozens of such parks began appearing
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