Piotr Lorens – PhD, DSc., urban planner. Lecturer in urban design and development and - since 2007 - Head of the Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology. He graduated as architect from the Gdansk University of Technology, and also completed the post-graduate studies (as Fulbright Fellow) at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then he is active as guest lecturer at numerous universities, mostly around Europe. His university activities also include coordination of the research and EU Social Fund projects. Based on these projects he was responsible for organization and coordination of the post-graduate studies and international conferences related to the issues of urban regeneration and management. Besides his academic career he is also actively involved in the activities of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (at present – holding the position of Vice President responsible for the Young Planning Professionals program) as well as of the Society of Polish Town Planners – TUP (at present – President of the society). 

 

Photo: Eric Chena

 

Enrico Lunghi (b. 1962 in Luxembourg) - studied History of Art, as well as History at the University of Human Sciences in Strasbourg. He was a Scientific Assistant at the National Museum of History and Art of Luxembourg from 1991 to 1995, an Artistic Director of Casino Luxembourg - Forum of Contemporary Art founded with Jo Kox, from 1996 to 2008. He was a General Director of the Mudam (Museum of Modern Art of Luxembourg) from 2009 to 2016. He was a Curator for Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale in 1995 (Bert Theis, Potemkin Lock), in 1999 (Simone Decker, Chewing and Folding projects) and in 2007 (Jill Mercedes, Endless Lust). In 2009, he was a Curator in Venice for the French Community of Wallonia-Brussels with Jacques Charlier’s 100 Sexes d’artistes project. From 2005 to 2011, he was a President of the IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art). Curator of multiple exhibitions, he has also published numerous texts on art and contemporary artists. Since 2017, he has been in charge of studies for the Ministry of Education (SCRIPT) and at the University of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (IRMA). He explores the relation of contemporary art and architecture as a Guest Professor at a Master's course in architecture at the University of Luxembourg and he has organized or been involved in many projects of "art with public space" (rather than "art in public space") in Luxembourg and abroad.  In 2019 he curated, a.o., the retrospective of Bert Theis Building Philosophy - Curating Utopia at Mudam Luxembourg, "Un monde, un seul, pour demeure – Sociétés et figures humaines dans les collections des FRAC de Nouvelle-Aquitaine" at the Château de Biron (Dordogne) and Celebration Factory of Filip Markiewicz at Kunsthalle Osnabrück.

 

photo Julien Becker

Prof Wojciech Zamiara (b. 1960 in Toruń) - Polish contemporary artist, interdisciplinary artist (creator of multimedia installations, performance and video art), teacher. He studied at the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Gdańsk (current name: Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk), he obtained a diploma in the Graphic Workshop of prof. Cyprian Kościelniak in 1986. He has been working at the University of Gdańsk since 1986, currently he runs Audio and Video Spaces studio.