I am Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Architectural Design at the University of Sheffield. Since 2021 I am also visiting professor at The Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brazil PUC-MG). Before joining SSoA I was an associate professor in Architecture, M.Arch. and M.A. in Architecture programme leader at the School of Architecture, Design and Environment, Plymouth University, United Kingdom. Educated as an architect and urban planner, I have worked in Poland, Latvia (e.g. for Riga City Council and NAMS Architecture Office) and Ireland (Principal Urban Designer at Colin Buchanan, Dublin). I worked as a visiting professor at the Geography Department at the University of Latvia and as a researcher at National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, Maynooth, Ireland. I was  Member of Board of Experts European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012, 2014 and 2016 and member of selection panel for the Polish contribution to the International Architecture Biennial in Venice in 2012 and in 2014. I am an urban theorist, author of City as a Political Idea (Plymouth, University of Plymouth Press, 2011), Holes in the Whole. Introduction to the Urban Revolutions (Winchester Zero Books, 2012) Radical Inclusivity. Architecture and Urbanism (ed. DPR-Barcelona, 2015), Total Urban Mobilisation. Ernst Junger and the Post-Capitalist City (Palgrave 2018), Kuala Lumpur: Community, Infrastructure and Urban Inclusivity (Kozlowski, M., Mehan, A., & Nawratek, K. Routledge 2020) and  and several papers and chapters in edited books.

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My main research interest lays in urban theory in the context of post-secular philosophy, I am also interested in evolution of (post)socialist cities, crisis of the contemporary neoliberal city model and urban re-industrialisation. Politically I am the transhumanistic post-christian democrat.

(photo by Joanna Erbel)