… qualified in architecture only a few years after had been graduated with first-class honours in art of impossible from the École Normale Supérieure de Soricières (Eastwick). I’ve realized that urban forms are far more eternal then architecture so I’ve decided to complete postgraduate studies in urban design and urban planning what gave me position of eternal student. It was good start in my professional practice and left a lot of time for experience art of life. In the meantime I was working as a Lecturer at Wroclaw University of Technology and nobody knows in what way I’ve been involved in preparing many development plans, strategic plans and urban design projects. As I hate any activity loving only to lay down at the seashore and enjoying sea breeze… So probably I prepared my PhD thesis only because I live quite far from the sea and I’ve got bored with flat landscape around. Thinking about urban transformations, landmarks and French wine I look for really exciting things to do… What about new student workshop? And of course there is no need to explain that being basically cool cat I like to make out that I’m tough but I am pussy cat really. You shouldn’t ask me too many questions - curiosity killed the cat…

…who likes everything to be simple. I am a Wroclaw based person to the bone. I meant to study graphic design on Academy of Fine Arts, but ended up on faculty of architecture on spatial planning and fell in love in cities immediately.
As my grandma said: you can paint at home. I suck at painting so it’s not the case, but I love forms: shapes of a city, everyday products, multidimensional communication. Good forms = good quality = good living. On every level.
I started a PhD on “quality and form of urban structures of Wroclaw” where I try to understand something important and prove that on an urban level, quality depends on number of sensible choices that we have when using space.
But what I understand on a primary level is that design is FUN! And what I mean by design is obtaining some specific knowledge to complete a task that involves creation. I have two black cats and I’m flexible.

….who qualified from Leeds School of Architecture a long time ago. I have run my own practice for 6 years concentrating on Law Courts where I generally act as technical advisor. I am also a Professional Examiner at Birmingham City University and for the RIBA North-West Region. My involvement with the RTPI West Midlands Region Europe and International Group led me to Wroclaw in April 2008 where I said ‘yes’ to helping with the ‘New Vision for Społeczny Square’ workshop held last September (hindsight is a wonderful thing). In May I helped organise breakfasts during the Urban Study Tour of the West Midlands by Wroclaw students. I am interested in Urban Design, Architecture, orienteering and motor biking. I too have a cat.

...studied Urban Planning and Regional Development in Greece. After 5 years and 67 taught modules I started working as a freelance consultant before getting a job in ATHENS 2004 to work for the Olympic Games. A year later I decided to move to London in order to do a postgraduate degree and stayed in the UK ever since. I am currently a Lecturer in Planning and Property Development at UCL and my main preoccupation at the moment is to find a flat to buy that does not cost an arm and a leg but still has a grocer and a baker within walking distance. Oh yes, and a garden for the 2 cats of course...When I am not pursuing utopias like this, I am doing research on regeneration policy and the way it affects developer strategies and housing delivery. I also am quite keen on exploring the implications of complexity theory for planning practice and for our understanding of spatial planning more generally.

Born in Sweden of Polish parents, living in France, let's say European. Professor of urban and regional planning at Paris-Sorbonne. Interdisciplinary, embedded in social sciences - but no architecture, nobody's perfect. Found of dogs, people, cities, European planning systems and strategic spatial planning. Management experience with most complicated people : planners. Looking forward to new adventures with you !

...born and raised in suburban Toronto to English immigrants I grew up saying things ‘funny’ to my Canuck friends, and now living in Britain I get asked ‘what part of the States are you from’ on a daily basis. So I can’t seem to win. I came to the UK to make use of my British passport and study for a PhD in Human Geography in 2001 and ended up staying much longer than anticipated. I am currently a Lecturer in Urban Development and Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. I have an academic and professional background in planning, human geography and environmental policy in Britain and Canada. My research interests focus on the intersections of sustainability, development innovation, (so-called) ‘best practice’ and urban policy in the production of suburban and urban residential environments. But I am currently dabbling in the unknown territory of ‘relational aesthetics’ and exploring how this artistic vantage point can foster a multiplicity of alternative creative urbanisms to challenge the dominant development paradigm.
… and for the record I like cats.

…Number One:
When I was a child I used to walk along a quiet beach on the Island of Arran. Out to sea was a craggy outcrop called Holy Island and clinging to the rim of the bay was the small fishing village of Lamlash.
I discovered that if I kept looking in either direction as I walked forwards I was able to experience the sensation of the foreground and the background apparently moving at different speeds, overlapping – producing a wonderful moving sequence.
…and so probably began my fascination with the design of the world… as well as developing my skill in skimming stones and catching crabs in rock pools.
…Number Two:
What I am and what I do are not necessarily the same thing – but are probably very close. What I am is an Urban Designer and a Landscape Architect. What I do is to try and make good places which meet our individual and collective needs, our practical needs as well as our social, financial and emotional needs.
…Number Three:
Fascination with environmental design is an all consuming love affair with no antidote. You have been warned!

Born in a small countryside Italian city located north of Turin, I still live there: friends and roots are hard to give up. Nevertheless, I spent much time roaming here and there in Europe and beyond, and there are different place I like to consider as “home”. In this concern Poland, and in particular the city of Krakow, is undoubtly on the top of the list, having lived there two years trying to figure out the secrets of Planning and Architecture. Back home in 2004, I obtained a Master of Architecture discussing limits and future perspectives for urban regeneration in the city of Krakow, and in the beginning of the following year I started to work at Politecnico di Torino as a PhD research fellow. What I’ve been doing for the last four year has been basically to try to address the topic of my PhD research in a way that would have allowed me to spend as much time as possible in beloved Central and Eastern Europe, Poland in particular J. This year I finally defended my PhD thesis, that focus on the impact of the enlargement of the European Union on Central and Eastern European countries’ spatial planning systems. I’m currently employed by the Politecnico di Torino, where I cooperate to several research projects as well as to educational activities as a teaching assistant. Other plans for the future? Who knows...right now I’m looking forward to spend a wonderful time in Wroclaw in September! About myself: I like to travel, to meet new people, to drink a glass of wine in nice company. Oh, and seeing that cats are a leit-motiv here, I have to admit it: I have one too.