Agnieszka Otręba-Szklarczyk is a sociologist, researcher, analyst, academic lecturer. A graduate of the doctoral program at the Jagiellonian University’s Institute of Sociology, she specialises in quantitative research with a particular focus on the quantitative analysis of textual data. She has carried out many projects for local governments (Marshal Office of the Lesser Poland Voivodship, Krakow City Hall), ministries and government agencies (Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, Ministry of Economic Development, National Centre for Research and Development) in a number areas, including disability, social and civic dialogue, education, labour market, R+D, and innovation. She is also an active educator, teaching classes and leading workshops in the fields of social research and data analysis. As for her research interests, she is most inspired when working with data.
Aleksandra Janus is a museologist, anthropologist and researcher, whose primary interests revolve around the social role of cultural institutions and their relationships with their audiences. She specialises in the analysis and implementation of participatory strategies, audience studies, and providing access to heritage resources. Her research work focuses on studies of cultural institution audiences with a particular interest in the museum visitor experience. She is a regular collaborator with institutions that seek effective ways of engaging public audiences.
Ángeles Briones is a PhD candidate in Communication Design at Politecnico di Milano. She collaborates at DensityDesign Research Lab, a research group which focus on the visual representation of complex, organizational and urban phenomena.Her research explores how design could contribute in the use of data within citizen activism and bottom-up movements in the city context.
Anna Bil is a UI & UX designer, Chilid collaborator (www.chilidagency.pl) and agile enthusiast. She is a graduate of Katowice’s Academy of Fine Arts, where she now works sharing her knowledge with students at the Digital Publishing studio. She has held scholarship from Poland’s President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Culture, Art and National Heritage. She is also great friend and enthusiast of Medialab.
Since 2006 she has been working at the Institute for Audiovisual Arts, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Her research interests include new media art, cyberculture, sound studies, digital textuality and e-literature. She currently pursues a 3-year long research project on the post-digital imagery (“The aesthetics of post-digital imagery: between new materialism and object-oriented philosophy”, grant from Polish National Science Centre). The author of three books in Polish, the newest one published in 2016 focuses on the locative media.
Bogna Świątkowska is the originator, founder and president of the Bęc Zmiana Foundation, which she has used as a platform to complete several dozen projects devoted to public space, architecture, contemporary art and design, as well as competitions targeted at young generation of architects and designers. She is also the initiator and publisher of the nationwide social-cultural magazine Notes.na.6.tygodni.
Jan Piechota, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, has been working with the Publishing Department at the BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice since 2012. His research and development work focuses on relationships between script and architecture. As a designer, he creates publications as well as information and visual identification systems.
Karin van Es (k.f.vanes@uu.nl) is Assistant Professor of Television and Digital Culture at Utrecht University (the Netherlands) and coordinator of the university’s Datafied Society research hub. She is author of the book The Future of Live (Polity Press, 2016) which interrogates the concept of the ‘live’ in the social media era. Recently, she edited (together with Mirko Tobias Schäfer) the volume The Datafied Society: Studying Culture through Data (Amsterdam University Press, 2017). From March to May 2017, she was visiting fellow at the department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics.
Lawyer specialised in human rights and technology. Co-founder and president of Panoptykon Foundation – a Polish NGO defending human rights in the context of contemporary forms of surveillance. Vice-president of European Digital Rights – a coalition of 33 privacy and civil rights organisations. Board member of Tactical Technology Collective and Amnesty International (Poland).Graduate of the University of Warsaw (Law) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (Development Studies). A member of Ashoka – international network of social entrepreneurs.
Łukasz Wróblewski is a PhD holder in Economics (management studies). He is Head of the Chair of Management and Production Engineering at the University of Dąbrowa Górnicza. His research publication output includes nearly 100 volumes devoted to management and marketing issues in cultural institutions. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Berlin-published scientific journal Cultural Management: Science and Education, and Vice-President of the Scientific Society for Organisation and Management, Dąbrowa Górnicza Branch.
Magdalena Krzosek-Hołody is a graduate of Krakow’s AGH University of Science in Technology, specialising in Sound Direction as well as Visual Communication and Graphic Design). She has worked with many cultural institutions as a graphic designer, animator, and sound and image producer. She is currently involved with the Wanda Siemaszkowa Theatre as a multimedia producer, and Muzeum Dobranocek (Museum of Bedtime Cartoons) as a graphic artist and educator. She is also a postgraduate student at the University of Rzeszow working on a PhD dissertation on art in space.
Michele Mauri is designer and researcher at Politecnico di Milano, where he obtained his PhD in design. His research activities are carried out in collaboration with DensityDesign Lab, a research group focused on information visualization and information design. Within the laboratory he coordinates the research, the design and development of projects related to the visual communication of data and information. In addition to his academic work Michele is a freelance information designer mainly working with newspapers. He's one of the creator of the open-source software RAWGraphs.
Michiel de Lange (1976) is an Assistant Professor in New Media Studies, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands; co-founder of The Mobile City (http://www.themobilecity.nl), a platform for the study of new media and urbanism; and works as a researcher in the field of (mobile) media, urban culture, identity and play.
Patrycja Rudnicka is a psychologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia, Katowice. He specialises in cyberpsychology and work/organisation psychology, combining these areas to conduct research on the conditions and uses of information technology in organisations and user experience (UX). Her research work involves the psychological aspects of internet activity, primarily in the areas of readiness for new technologies, involvement in social media, and e-learning. As a consultant, he works with professionals from various fields, including designers, engineers, computer scientists and physicians, believing that psychology can help them enhance their professional development.
I'm a creative technologist from Poznań, Poland, and I enjoy building unusual things with code, exploring data, playing with hardware and making tools.
Irma Kozina is an art historian and academic splitting her time between the University of Silesia and the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. She specialises in research on modern and contemporary art, methods of artwork interpretation, and the history of urban planning. In 1983-1988 she studied at Institute of Art History of the, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, from which she graduated with a master's degree, having completed a thesis under the supervision of Professor Jan K. Ostrowski. She earned her PhD in 1997 from the University of Wrocław, having successfully defended her dissertation on palaces and castles of Upper Silesia, written under the supervision of Professor Ewa Chojecka. In 2007, she was conferred a habilitation degree at the University of Warsaw for her publication ‘Chaos i uporządkowanie. Dylematy architektoniczne na przemysłowym Górnym Śląsku w latach 1763- 1955” [Chaos and Order. Architectural Dilemmas in Industrial Upper Silesia in 1763-1955 ". As part of the Design Silesia project, she conducted a research project leading to the publication of her book ‘Design Icons of Silesian Voivodship’. 2015 saw the release of her ‘Polski Design’, a book on the history of Polish design. She also runs the ‘Design Icons’ column in ‘ARCH, a specialist magazine published by the Association of Polish Architects.
Dariusz Szklarczyk is a sociologist, researcher, analyst, and consultant in social research and data analysis. He is a graduate of doctoral studies at the Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University. He specialises in social research methodology and statistical data analysis. In his roles as head and member of several research teams (e.g. JU, Tischner European University, Social Research Development Foundation), he has taken part in numerous studies devoted to entrepreneurship, education, labour market, innovation, quality of life, quality of public services, politics/political system, and culture (such e.g. a study of the cultural landscape of Polish cities with Marta Klekotko). He is an enthusiast of free software, including the R software environment. He loves interdisciplinarity and combining different exploration methods, and pursues interesting research opportunities wherever he may find them.
Marcin Ignac is a Polish data artist and computational designer focusing on data visualization and generative systems. Since 2012, he has lived in London, where he started his own studio practice Variable in order to pursue his interest in blending design, software and the aesthetics emerging from data, processes and human behaviour. Living in an increasingly data driven world requires new ways of seeing and understanding the systems that shape our life. In his work, Marcin uses code to build tools for probing the surrounding reality in a search to discover the shape of data. Marcin has a background in Computer Science, New Media Art and Interaction Design. He has exhibited in Poznan, Aarhus, Vancouver, Moscow, London and Paris.
Marcin Wilkowski works at the University of Warsaw’s Laboratory of Digital Humanities (LaCH UW). His academic interests focus on digital history and Web archiving. More information: http://wilkowski.org/
Ryszard Nakonieczny (1965)
Architect, PhD- graduate and academic at the Faculty of Architecture at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland; author of the PhD dissertation entitled: Metropolitan housing architecture of Katowice in the interwar period (1922-1939). Editor and co-author of two books: Great Villas of Poland (Foibos, Prague 2013), The Many Faces of Modernism in Architecture (Śląsk, Katowice 2013). Editor-in-chief of the nationwide quarterly 'Archivolta' in the years 2004-2011
Sylwia Żółkiewska is a designer, educator, expert in mobile application design for culture and education, author of APPetyt na APPlikacje [APPetite for APPlications], Poland’s first guide to the world of mobile applications (publ. by Orange Foundation edition and Creative Initiatives Society ę, 2016). She is a curator at the Culture Shock Foundation’s FAM, Forum Aplikacji i Gier Mobilnych [Mobile Applications and Games Forum], and a mentor in the Digital Centre’s Open Culture Studio.
She has authored several dozen educational materials and lesson plans involving mobile applications, including those for the project "Tablets in Your Library", delivered by the Foundation for the Development of Information Society. She lectures and leads workshops on the design of mobile applications and games for culture and education. More information: www.zolkiewska.pl
A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. As part of her master’s degree project she wrote ‘Life according to an architect. Utopia in socmodern housing architecture’, an essay containing a theoretical description of the analysed phenomenon an its utopian nature. She is currently working as a teaching assistant at the Book Arts Studio, and a freelance graphic designer specialising in editorial design.
Dr. Dominikus Baur works as a freelance data visualization developer. His award-winning projects for clients like Google, the OECD or Microsoft Research make large datasets accessible, understandable, and usable. His work covers the whole spectrum from mobile apps, to websites, to large, touch-controlled installations – always focused on the people using them. As a computer scientist, he sees his work in the larger context of technological and societal developments and doesn’t shy away from asking critical questions.
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