I was invited to the Board of Experts to European Prize of Urban Public Space 2014 (I was member of the board also in 2012).
It is pretty nice and prestigious and my duty is pretty simple - I just need to submit a nomination of a project of - in my opinion - the best urban public space built in 2012/13... 

To już się stało, więc nie tyle 'news' co raczej z kronikarskiego obowiązku - bardzo dobra debata (w tytule była re-industrializacja i ja o niej oczywiście mówiłem) w DAM we Frankfurcie związana z wystawą '9 Conditions of Riga'. W katalogu mój tekst (już wcześniej publikowany), obiecałem napisać recenzję wystawy - ale to musi chwilę zaczekać.
Na portalu Instytutu Obywatelskiego w ramach bloku 'Od pomysłu do Przemysłu' mój tekst o miejskiej re-industrializacji. Kolejny, nie tyle wnoszący nowe wątki, co raczej starający się w kilku słowach powiedzieć co to jest i dlaczego to jest dobre.
W listopadowym Znaku mój tekst 'Jestem więc komentuję', zupełnie niezwiązany z głównym nurtem mojej działalności, taki lekko złośliwy literacki (?) komentarz do rzeczywistości, a może (choć to oczywiście zbyt ambitne) rodzaj apelu o opamiętanie...
Mam też zaproszenie z polskiego ministerstwa do Warszawy na połowę listopada, ale z powodów logistycznych chyba będę musiał odmówić. Trochę szkoda.

Od jutra (5go) do 15go października jestem w Cieszynie, ALE:
10go od 17:00 jestem w Warszawie w Zachęcie na dyskusji o Biennale a wcześniej,
8go o 17:00 jestem w Bielsku Białej, na zaproszenie lokalnego SARPu (uk. Głęboka 16/6) dam wykład "Czy istnieje przestrzeń publiczna?" Jak ktoś w okolicy i ma ochotę, to zapraszam serdecznie!

26.09 - 28.09: Vienna, Austria
29.09 - 30.09: Katowice/Gliwice
01.10: Warsaw, Poland
05.10 - 09.10: Cieszyn, Poland
10.10: Warsaw, Poland
11.10 - 15.10: Cieszyn, Poland
31.10 - Frankfurt, Germany

EUROPEAN CULTURAL DAYS of the ECB 2013 – Panel discussion RIGA TALKS Urban renewal and regeneration of former industrial areas in Europe between Riga, Frankfurt and Warschau \ An event organized by the European Central Bank in co-operation with the Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Thu, 31 October 2013, 19:00, free entry

The transformation from an industrial to a services economy has had a major influence on the urban development of European metropolises over recent decades. Riga has also had to come to terms with the Soviet period and Russian domination in its urban planning. Problems such as out-migration from the inner city and the number of newly constructed offices now standing empty have brought up an array of questions, including that of whether existing architecture and its restructuring should play a greater role when it comes to new office and residential spaces. Similarities and differences between urban planning processes in Eastern and Western Europe over the last 20 years will also be discussed. This event is taking place as part of the EUROPEAN CULTURAL DAYS of the ECB – Latvia 2013.

Professor Krzysztof Nawratek, Plymouth University
Professor Vanessa M. Carlow, TU Braunschweig
Janis Dripe, Architect/Senior Adviser to the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Latvia
Professor Jörg J. Kühn, Brandenburg University of Technology
Chaired by
Oskars Redbergs, Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration (RISEBA), Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design

W magazynie Kontakt Adam Ostolski pisze o idei dobra wspólnego, zapowiada Kongres 'Europa Społeczna' a przy okazji wspomina też i o moich ideach. Miło.

It seems my paper will fit better than I though to the conference. Several of these papers seem extremely interesting and very 'architectural'. I am really looking forward for abstracts!

The second year in the row nice comment about our M.Arch programme in Architect's Journal:

Mark Pearson reviews Plymouth University’s end of year show

There is a freshness and openness to the work produced by the undergraduate units which is largely untainted by the all-too-common infatuation with the latest imagery from journals. However, it is within the work of the upper MArch where the school’s character clearly emerges.

Standout unit Krzysztof Nawratek’s unit was supported this year by Michelle Adams from Dalhousie University and based on a huge former tractor factory site in the outskirts of Warsaw. The challenge was to find a ‘middle ground’ between industrial/employment uses and residential uses. Individual projects inhabit different parts of the complex, creating intriguing inserted fragments, rather than forming composed buildings in a conventional sense.

Standout students Chris Turner and Daniel Green effortlessly combine food production with smart manufacturing and living, and began with shared contextual research - turning the mapping of power and local territory through time into an intriguing, elegant 3D construction. Both students generate organisations and spaces reminiscent of Cedric Price’s thinking - more ‘structures of possibility’ than buildings. Four weeks of enforced model-making means work has a tectonic spirit and points towards the architect as motivator-enabler, rather than form-giver.

In a word Charged

Mark Pearson, executive director, Regional Design Support, Design Action

More here.

Na portalu lubimyczytac.pl pojawiła się opinia o 'Dziurach...'. Sześć gwiazdek na dziesięć możliwych delikatnie rozczarowuje, sama opinia wskazuje na raczej powierzchowną lekturę, no ale dobrze, że wciąż tę książkę ktoś czyta. Może kiedyś doczeka się takiego odbioru na jaki - moim zdaniem - zasługuje...

At least for a moment my University seems to be pround of me - the whole webpage about Culture Space Theory's research group publications is filled by my publications. Nice!
By the way - the paper published in CLCWeb will be used in Frankfurt in October - November for a very interesting event. More details soon!