Łukasz Harat
Socio-urbanist, PhD student at the Faculty of Architecture, Silesian University of Technology. Studied sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Silesia. Board member of the anti-RAMA collective and Urban Space Lab, director of the nationwide A<FESTIVAL festival, host of the videocast Street Cloud and MIASTOCZYTANIE, puzzler in the ZAGADAJ collective. He has gained experience at, among others, the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, TIFF Collective, the Napraw Sobie Miasto Foundation, as artist-in-residence at Drzwiach Zwanym Koniem in Katowice and the OVO Grąbczewscy architectural office. Organiser of more than 600 interdisciplinary projects in the fields of architecture and sociology, socio-urbanism, cultural education. Moderator in social consultation and social planning processes; creator of spatial and artistic installations.
Łukasz Harat is moderating the talk
Roads to imperfection. A special review of urban underperformance
Marta Smagacz-Poziemska
Professor at the Jagiellonian University – sociologist of the city, space and local communities. She has conducted research on, among other things, revitalisation, processes of producing differences and boundaries in metropolitan settlements, attitudes of teenagers towards the city. She is currently the head of an NCN project entitled ‘Normality under uncertainty. A praxeological perspective in the study of the (re)production of ‘normal’ urban life’. Vice-coordinator from 2015 to 2017 and coordinator of the 37th Research Network – Urban Sociology at the European Sociological Association (ESA) from 2017 to 2021; member of the Scientific Advisory Board at JPI Urban Europe from 2017 to 2021. For almost 20 years – as an expert, researcher, facilitator – she has been working with local, regional and international public institutions and NGOs. For the past 10 years, she has been co-organising – together with the Faculty of Interior Design of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Architecture of the Krakow University of Technology – the student interdisciplinary design workshop “New Space”.
Marta Smagacz-Poziemska takes part in the talk
Roads to imperfection. A special review of urban underperformance
Mikołaj Smoleński
Architect, designer. He co-manages the CH+architekci studio and within the SOFFT platform, in cooperation with other creators and entities, deals with small-scale activities dedicated to public spaces and local communities and participates in educational and workshop activities. He is co-author of completed public buildings: cultural and community activity centres, nursery and kindergarten complexes, a sports centre with a football stadium, as well as housing complexes, single-family houses or a vegan food production plant. He is the author and co-author of more than twenty prize-winning and commended competition projects. He was co-nominated for the European Mies van der Rohe Award 2022 for his design of the Local Activity Centre on Prądzyńskiego Street and the project for revitalisation of the Oławski Suburb in Wrocław. He actively participated in the team developing the design of the Model New Żerniki Estate. From 2019 member of the Municipal Urban Planning and Architectural Commission in Wrocław. Enthusiast of modernist and post-modernist housing estates.
Mikołaj Smoleński takes part in the talk
Roads to imperfection. A special review of urban underperformance
Ewa Zielińska
Sociologist, mediator, social researcher in the field of public service design. Co-founder of the socio-urban specialisation at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw, where she was responsible for the programme of classes introducing innovative methods of public participation in spatial planning processes. Founder of the Miastodwa Association, whose members aim to strengthen cross-sectoral cooperation at different stages of creating urban service systems, protecting cultural heritage, enhancing public participation or increasing urban resilience. For many years, she has been involved in advocacy activities for the largest grassroots community centre in Poland – Otwarty Jazdow in Warsaw. As an expert she cooperates with local governments and universities all over Poland. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Artes Liberales and the University of Warsaw’s School of Social and Cultural Sciences. She wrote her PhD on grassroots and non-commercial alternative venues in Poland between 2008 and 2017.
Ewa Zielińska is moderating the talk
Nie-koszmar partycypacji. O rozważnym włączaniu w procesy odnowy miast
Barbara Audycka
Sociologist, specialist in housing and housing policy. For many years, she has worked in the field of Polish housing policy, serving as an advocate for NGOs and as an expert in programmes of the Ministry of Development, the Institute for Urban and Regional Development and local government projects. Since 2020, she has been an assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences and a lecturer in interdisciplinary Urban Studies at the UW. She is currently researching resettlement accompanying revitalisation and the financialisation of the housing sector in Poland.
Barbara Audycka takes part in the discussion
Nie-koszmar partycypacji. O rozważnym włączaniu w procesy odnowy miast
Iwo Borkowicz
He works as an architect and visual artist. He founded and runs JEJU.studio, a studio known for its wide range of projects: installations, buildings to masterplans. Borkowicz is the winner of the Young Talent Architecture Award from the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, as well as the EAAE award from the European Committee of Architectural Medals. In 2018, he was selected as one of the ’20 young designers who will shape the future of design worldwide’ by Design Indaba, World Design Events and Dutch Design Week.
Iwo Borkowicz takes part in the discussion
Nie-koszmar partycypacji. O rozważnym włączaniu w procesy odnowy miast
Zofia Piotrowska
Editor of the architectural quarterly Rzut, urban planner with experience working in Poland and abroad, PhD student at the Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology researching the topic of land policy and activist promoting the development of various models of accessible housing.
Zofia Piotrowska holds the meeting
Dookoła – skrajobrazy miast polskich i niemieckich
Paul Scraton
British-born, Berlin-based writer and editor-in-chief of the online magazine ‘Elsewhere. A Journal of Place’. He is the author of the essayist-reporter book ‘Ghosts on the Shore. Travels along Germany’s Baltic Coast’, as well as the novel ‘Built on Sand’ and the novella ‘In the Pines’. He has been published in the Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, Literary Hub and The Island Review, among others. He has also worked with BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Ulster, Radio Eins and rbbKultur, as well as the Deutsche Welle website. He is the author of the essay ‘Around. On foot on the outskirts of Berlin’.
Paul Scraton takes part in the meeting
Dookoła – skrajobrazy miast polskich i niemieckich
Aleksandra Zienkiewicz
Graduate of the University of Life Sciences in Wrocław, Certified Tree Inspector, urban activist for years. For over 4 years an employee of the Municipal Greenery Management in Wrocław. Promoter of trees as a valuable element of the urban landscape and green infrastructure. Originator and leader of winning green projects for the civic budget. Co-author of publications on trees, pedestrian traffic and spatial development. Organiser, as part of the city’s Microgrants, of events on trees and their role in nature. One of the hosts of the EcoDevelopment Foundation’s “Za 5 dwunastua” podcast as part of the #mówiąDrzewa series. At the Board of Urban Greenery, she is in charge of, among other things, promotion and communication, spatial analyses and the programme for donors called Green Patronage.
Aleksandra Zienkiewicz is moderating the discussion
Nie taki „chwast” straszny. O pozytywnej roli roślinności niepożądanej
Katarzyna Kobierska
Landscape architect, designer of applied graphics, design and place branding, founder of the KA KOBIERSKA design studio in Wrocław dealing with the design of public spaces. Winner of competitions and author of studies, implementation projects related to NBS solutions, including rainwater management. She is a co-winner of the 3rd prize (ex aequo) in the FUTUWAWA 2021 competition “How will we live in Warsaw of the future?” for her work Warsaw SZEPT and a co-winner of the IFLA international competition “Boldness&Beauty” for her realised public space Popo Park in Wrocław, where in the setting of jewel-like architectural elements she managed to introduce native plants considered to be weeds. She is an advocate of introducing the effect of ‘apparent control’ in urban greenery. Since June 2022, she has been a member of the Board of Directors at the Association of Landscape Architecture.
Katarzyna Kobierska takes part in the discussion
Nie taki „chwast” straszny. O pozytywnej roli roślinności niepożądanej
Kasper Jakubowski
Landscape architect, illustrator, educator, president of the Children in Nature Foundation. Creator of plant art installations: at the Ingarden Festival of Gardens and Art in Lublin (title of installation: “Succession and Returns” – 2022), Anthropocene in Warsaw and Wrocław (“Renatura” 2022-2023) and Retroversje in Elbląg (“Microreserve El” in cooperation with Krystyna Jędrzejewska-Szmek, 2023). Author of the book “Fourth nature: succession of function and nature of urban wastelands” (2020). Author of walks through the wildlife of Krakow and Warsaw. Author of the scenario and illustrations for the educational path about the fourth nature on the Warsaw Uprising Mound. Promotes the planting of Urban Microlashes (MMs), i.e. pocket forests in Poland using the Miyawaki method. Designer of greenery in the award-winning Nowy Strzeszyn estate in Poznań. He has realised, among others, the awarded competition works for public spaces – the “Rescuers-Rescued” memorial in front of the Polin Museum or the educational pavilion with a recreational glade in Warsaw.
Kasper Jakubowski takes part in the discussion
Nie taki „chwast” straszny. O pozytywnej roli roślinności niepożądanej
Filip Kucharczyk
For more than 10 years, he has been running Cafe Targowa, a well-known and well-liked café in Wrocław, and, since 2017, the coffee roaster Figa Coffee. During this time, he has become a world champion coffee roaster as well as the owner of all sorts of ‘rubble’ to move here and there. In addition to coffee, he is involved in photography.
Filip Kucharczyk is guiding the walk
Market Hall – the old order of trade in new times
Maciej Czarnecki
He is involved in photography and the popularisation of architecture, particularly modernist architecture. He looks for interesting buildings in Poland and abroad, which he tries to get to know and photograph. He is interested in everything that happened in architecture after 1920 with a special focus on the avant-garde – architecture inspired by the space age, architecture linked to ideology and the architecture of hotels and holiday homes. In my work, in addition to documenting disappearing heritage, I try to read the compositional intentions of architects and then reinterpret them. He conducts photo and architectural walks and participates in lectures, debates and podcasts. He writes ebooks on architecture and has had photographic exhibitions in Poland and Germany.
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Maciej Czarnecki will give a lecture
Jaka piękna katastrofa. Hiperurbanizacja po kazachsku
Kacper Kępiński
Architect, architecture critic, curator of architectural exhibitions. Head of the External Projects and Exhibitions Department at the National Institute of Architecture and Urbanism. Member of the foundation council of the Institute of Architecture, regular contributor to the quarterly “Autoportret. Pismo o dobrej przestrzeni” quarterly and editor of the Architektura & Biznes portal. Curator of exhibitions, including ‘The Eastern Wall. Architecture of Zbigniew Karpiński” and “Anthropocene”. Author of the “Tectonic Movement” guide to the post-war architecture of the Świętokrzyskie region. Co-teaches design classes at the Faculty of Architecture of VUT in Brno on inclusive residential architecture.
Kacper Kępiński is moderating the meeting
Z widokiem na Europę: zwykłe życie zwykłych ludzi pośród ruin
Kateryna Kozlova
Mentor with 13 years of experience in architecture, eight years of teaching and three years of writing about architecture. She is currently working on a book about post-war urban reconstruction. She was an adjunct professor of architecture at the university and an architecture editor at Bird in Flight magazine. She holds a master’s degree in architecture and planning from the Prydniprov State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture.
Kateryna Kozlova takes part in the meeting
Z widokiem na Europę: zwykłe życie zwykłych ludzi pośród ruin
Piotr Pawlus
Graduate of the Department of Cinematography and Photography at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School. Graduate of the Krakow School of Screenwriting and winner of the school’s award for treatment for the feature film ‘Dreamer’. He makes documentaries, feature films and commercials in Poland and abroad, awarded at international film festivals (including Gdynia FF, Film and Music Festival Küstendorf, Koszalin Film Debut Festival “Youth and Film”, Poland, 11 Go Short – Short IFF, the Netherlands). In Ukraine’ is his first full-length film as a director.
Piotr Pawlus takes part in the meeting
Z widokiem na Europę: zwykłe życie zwykłych ludzi pośród ruin
Małgorzata Mader
Architect working in the Netherlands and researcher of housing models involving future users in a co-creative design process. She runs her own practice in Amsterdam designing, among other things, for housing co-operatives. She is currently co-designing a co-operative adaptation of a historic factory complex in Hembrug near Zandaam. Since 2018 she is a PhD student at the Technical University of Lodz, where she teaches architectural design and conducts her own research on the Amsterdam system for zelfbouw processes. She is a member of the European Network of Housing Research and winner of the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction Next Generation Europe. Since 2023, she has been popularising the issue of housing co-operatives in Poland under the banner of OknoNaKoop.
Małgorzata Mader is the author and host of the event
Zróbmy sobie budynek! Subiektywny przegląd modeli kooperatyw mieszkaniowych
Mateusz Nowacki
Cultural studies and cultural animator, doctoral student at the Department of Urban Cultural Studies at the Institute of Cultural Studies, A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He conducts research into urban environmental policy and the adaptation of cities to climate change. Co-founder of the grassroots cultural space “Mikro Dom Kultury” in Poznan Naramowice. From 2019, involved in the programming of the “Academy of the City” – a course for educators/researchers/animators dedicated to urban adaptation. Author of social projects (“Exercises from the city”; “Ecological cities”) and curator of the social programme at the Arsenal City Gallery in Poznan.
Mateusz Nowacki is moderating the discussion
Squatowanie koniecznością czy wyborem? Niedoskonałości systemu mieszkaniowego w Polsce a potencjał pustostanów
Mateusz Piegza
Architect, coordinator of design and construction processes, architecture researcher. Head of the Gliwice branch of the Habitat For Humanity Poland Foundation. Graduated in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology (2015). Experienced in designing residential and commercial interiors and residential buildings. Populariser of grassroots forms of housing projects. As of October 2019, a student of the Joint Doctoral School at the Silesian University of Technology, where he is pursuing his doctoral thesis on the conversion of post-industrial buildings for residential purposes.
Mateusz Piegza takes part in the discussion
Squatowanie koniecznością czy wyborem? Niedoskonałości systemu mieszkaniowego w Polsce a potencjał pustostanów
Weronika Piotrowska
Member of the Poznań Young Workers’ Initiative Circle and the Poznań Anarchist Federation, student of ethnology, interested in Lower Silesia, especially the Polish-Czech-German triangle, involved in environmental activities.
Weronika Piotrowska takes part in the discussion
Squatowanie koniecznością czy wyborem? Niedoskonałości systemu mieszkaniowego w Polsce a potencjał pustostanów
Kamil Siemaszko
Member of the Greater Poland Tenants’ Association. Co-founder of the Freedom Fighters sports initiative, professional fighter and trainer of Thai boxing.Since 2006 continuously associated with the Anarchist Federation s. Poznań/Collective Rozbrat. Tried and convicted multiple times for anarchist and squatter activities.
Kamil Siemaszko takes part in the discussion
Squatowanie koniecznością czy wyborem? Niedoskonałości systemu mieszkaniowego w Polsce a potencjał pustostanów
Halina Wałkiewicz
Local activist, member of the Hulajpole collective. For many years, she has been involved in helping the excluded and fighting for the social demands of male and female residents of Wrocław, including, among others, housing issues. She has been active in the anarchist community for years, creating and co-organising many events and initiatives, including the Free Library, helping refugees and the campaign for Free City Transport.
Halina Wałkiewicz takes part in the discussion
Squatowanie koniecznością czy wyborem? Niedoskonałości systemu mieszkaniowego w Polsce a potencjał pustostanów
Albert Miściorak
Graduate of international relations and cultural studies at the University of Wrocław, PhD in cultural studies, author of doctoral thesis on the landscape of western settlements in Wrocław, participant in foreign research projects at the Berliner Center for Metropolitan Studies and the Herder-Institut in Marburg, two-time scholarship holder at Technische Universität Dresden. Manager of social projects (e.g. initiator and coordinator of the Ołbiński Open Garden project). Currently, coordinator of the Dialogue Transition in the Intercultural Dialogue Team, at the Wrocław Social Development Centre.
Albert Miściorak is moderating the meeting
Czułam się tam jak u siebie – jak przestrzeń działa na ludzi, jak ludzie oswajają sobie przestrzeń. Kontekst międzykulturowy
Katarzyna Majbroda
Literary theorist, socio-cultural anthropologist, PhD, professor of the University of Wrocław. Lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Wrocław. Vice-President of the Polish Folklore Society. Her research interests include theories and methodology in the humanities and social sciences, transrelational ethnography, anthropology of energy, opening education and the city in its various dimensions. Author of several books, including Feminist Criticism of Literature in Poland after 1989. Text, discourse, cognition from a different perspective (2013); W relacjach, sieciach, splotach assemblages. Imagining socio-cultural anthropology in the face of the present (2019). He is currently conducting anthropological research around the Turów mining and energy complex in Lower Silesia, focusing on local ways of understanding and experiencing the climate crisis and energy transition in socio-cultural, environmental and economic contexts.
Katarzyna Majborda takes part in the meeting
Czułam się tam jak u siebie – jak przestrzeń działa na ludzi, jak ludzie oswajają sobie przestrzeń. Kontekst międzykulturowy
Łukasz Wojciechowski
Architect, co-author of e.g. the congress centre at the Centennial Hall, the Contemporary Museum Wrocław (ch+ vroa architekci). Assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology, author of books e.g: Spacer przez architekturę (Bęc Zmiana publisher), Architektura racjonalnej Europy (EMG publisher). Curator of exhibitions, e.g. In the rear-view mirror – combustion architecture, Jan Szpakowicz – elementary space (with Aleksandra Czupkiewicz at the Museum of Architecture). Author of graphic novels: Ville Nouvelle, Soleil Mécanique, Dum dum (published by Éditions çà et là).