Barbara Nawrocka

Barbara Nawrocka is an architect and a graduate of the Krakow University of Technology. Together with Dominika Wilczyńska, she runs Miastopracownia architectural office, which operates at the junction of architecture, installation and activism. Together, they do architecture, interior design, installations in public space and exhibitions. What they like the most is to design meeting places: local centres and community centres. Nawrocka has been involved in several participatory processes. She has been awarded and honoured in many architectural and artistic competitions, e.g.  the Scholarship of the City of Krakow in 2017, the main prize at the Ljubljana Design Biennale BIO50 in 2014. Since 2021, she is a co-founder of Bal_architektek, an initiative addressing women in architecture and feminist approach to urban planning. She is a co-author of the installation of the Polish Pavilion at the 23rd Milan Triennale in 2022 and the installation at the ‘Anthropocene’ exhibition at Warsaw’s Zodiak Architecture Pavilion. In the same year, she co-curated the DoFA Architecture Festival in Wrocław. Also in 2022, Miastopracownia was among the 11 young Polish architectural studios taking part in an exhibition at the Westival in Szczecin held under the motto “The future of Polish architecture I am waiting for”. Since 2023, she has participated in the project ‘Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment’. She has published in magazines such as Dérive and Autoportret. Pismo o dobrej przestrzeni. Her texts appear regularly in Architektura Murator and Notes na 6 Tygodni magazines.