Dr. Monika Arczyńska is an architect and researcher with over 10 years of international experience in cultural projects. She has been working on the awarded designs of Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Palestinian Museum in East Bank, Giant’s Causeway Visitor Centre and National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow (with Heneghan Peng Architects). As a founder of a2p2 architecture&planning she has developed strategies such as a converting 12,600 sqm postindustrial buildings in Gdansk Shipyard into a contemporary art museum. She has broad experience from feasibility studies concept design, through project management to technical assistance at construction stage. Together with Łukasz Pancewicz she runs urban design studio at Gdansk University of technology where she is responsible for managing team work and collaboration between project participants. She also lectures at the University of Gdansk ad Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw, works as an architectural critic for ‘Architektura-murator’ (a popular Polish architectural monthly) and for Czech magazine ‘Intro’, runs an architectural blog and organizes lecture series on architecture and design.
Dr Łukasz Pancewicz is a town planner with over 11 years of experience of work on planning and urban design projects for public and private clients. Before co-founding a2p2 architecture&planning, he worked for private consultancies in Ireland and Poland. He also held a position of a chief specialist in the Municipal Planning Bureau of Łódź in the years 2013-2016, where he worked on the main structure plan of Łódź. He cooperated with the Ministry of Development on the implementation of pilot regeneration schemes in Łódź z and Wałbrzych. He cooperated with OECD research team assessing Łódź planning policy. Previously, Łukasz worked on local planning projects for local communities in Poland. In his professional work he focuses on the topics of connecting town planning with urban regeneration and practical application of the public participation methods. Łukasz participated in the one year professional development programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His affiliations include the memberships in the Society of Polish Town Planners (TUP) and International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP).
Architect and urban planner with several years of experience in work related to the design of public spaces. She was employed in the Department of Public Space Development in the City of Gdańsk, where she coordinated the “Fasady of OdNowa” project and was a member of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan team, Smart Solutions Supporting Low Emission Zones and the Public Space Operational Programme in Gdańsk. She co-edited the “Metropolitan” magazine and coordinated “W stronę piękna”and “Open Garden in the Shipyard” project. As part of cooperation with FRAG she was involved in creating a transformation strategy for Podwale Przedmiejskie street in Gdańsk. She graduated from English Studies at the University of Gdańsk and Architecture and Urban Planning at the Gdańsk University of Technology. Her Master’s thesis “Study of the development of the central part of Granary Island in Gdańsk” received the distinction of TUP in Northern Poland. In A2P2 Barbara is the project leader for public spaces projects.
Planner/urban designer, Spatial Planning graduate from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and the Faculty of Architecture at Gdansk University of Technology (Spatial Planning). In A2P2 Dawid coordinates projects associated with planning issues and participation, such as masterplanning, local area planning and public space systems.
Architect and urban planner, graduate from the Faculty of Architecture at the Gdańsk University of Technology. As part of the Erasmus+ exchange she studied at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. For several years she was involved with the “Zobaczyć na Nowo” Foundation, where she co-organized educational workshops for children and adults in the field of urban aesthetics. She took part in many urban planning workshops, among them: historically-themed workshop in Rotterdam, BISS in Hamburg on waterside areas, and Autumn School Los_Dama in Munich. She assisted in conducting three editions of the EASA workshops. As part of managing the BUA scientific club at the Faculty of Architecture, she co-organized two editions of workshops for students of Urban Planning and Transport Faculties. She coordinated the work on the report “Visions for the Royal Route” for Long Street and Long Market in Gdańsk. In A2P2 Anna is responsible for interdisciplinary projects and solving complex urban issues.
Architect and urban planner, graduate from the Faculty of Architecture at the Gdańsk University of Technology. Michał studied at Cairo University in Egypt within Erasmus+ scholarship and participated in international workshops, in Denmark and Russia among others. Within his Master thesis he has carried out a research on waste production and recycling, proposing a complex infrastructural and system solutions based on the idea of the circular economy. He has gained work experience in Poland and the Netherlands – he was engaged with Casanova & Hernandez office in Rotterdam, where he designed public spaces and buildings. He coordinated work on „The Design Guidelines for Public Spaces in Gdynia” project within the municipal urban regeneration programme. In A2P2 Michał is responsible for public spaces design as well as investment programming.
Graduate of Urban and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture of the Gdańsk University of Technology. He continues education at the Master degree in the specialty of Integrated Coastal Zone Management and in the field of Architecture of Cultural Space at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Winner of the Metropolitan Institute award in the category of bachelor diplomas for the project of Masterplan for Ostrów Island in Gdańsk. Co-author of articles for architectural magazines. Karol collaborated with the Pomeranian Regional Planning Office on the emerging landscape audit.
Graduate (MArch/PhD) from the Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology, collaborating with A2P2 on urban regeneration projects. Urban designer and planner, with more than 10 years experience in PPR DOM sp.z o.o. Senior Designer in Gdansk Development Bureau, coordinator of the Municipal Regeneration Programme for Orunia district in Gdansk. Lecturer at Gdansk University of Technology and Sopot University of Applied Sciences, urban activist and Foundation in Support of Local Democracy expert. Barbara collaborates with A2P2 as the project leader for local area planning and urban regeneration projects.
Employed with A2P2 in 2018-2019. Architect, graduate from Gdańsk University of Technology (BArch) and Technische Universiteit in Delft (MArch). Collaborated over series of lectures of prof. ir. Michiel Riedijk ‘Means of Architectural Design’. Worked as a cartoonist at B-Nieuws, architectural periodic of TU Delft. Graduated with thesis project ‘The Good Banality and The Pleasure of Boredom. Redefinition of the domestic realm in the post-industrial city of Łódź’, published by Bec Zmiana. The project is an architectural attempt at a conscious domestication of boredom in order to benefit from the non-profit time, dedicated purely to the celebration of existence and to being per se. Collaborator of Non-Architecture Competitions, creative platform focused on research. Currently employed with MLA+ in Berlin.
Graduate of Urban and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture at Gdańsk University of Technology, currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Urban Planning at the same faculty. She also holds a secondary vocational education in architecture from Moscow Architecture, Design and Engineering Technical School. Gained professional experience working on interior design projects in an architectural office as well as independently. Author and instructor of the online course ‘Basics of Spatial Analysis using QGIS’. Currently responsible for geoinformation systems analyses and graphic works in A2P2.
