Researcher Theory
01.01.08 – 31.12.09
Henri Lefebvre’s theory of production of space belongs to the very few critical theories of the city which are mobilised in current urban research – otherwise dominated by technocratic, neo-positivist, spectacular or philanthropic approaches.
However, this revival of Lefebvre’s theory, rediscovered in the 1990s after two decades of oblivion, is somewhat astonishing, considering the widespread skepticism towards the Marxist foundations of his work after the end of state-socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. Another obstacle is the apparent exhaustion of the theory of production of space following its incorporation into planning policies in several countries, most notably in Lefebvre’s native France.
The project Productive Crisis questions this paradoxical rediscovery of Lefebvre’s theory – in the midst of what appears to be its double crisis – by interrogating its explanatory value and critical potential in the research on the contemporary European city.
Specifically, this project will focus on the rediscovery of Lefebvre’s work in contemporary French urban research, in its instrumentalization in urban policies since the mid 1960s. It will query the transition from the socialist politique de la ville, marked in the 1980s by the Lefebvrean concept of the “the right to the city”, to the current introduction of penal policy as the new paradigm of urban governance.
The example of France will be juxtaposed with an interrogation of the explanatory power of Lefebvre’s theory in post-socialist states. Most importantly, the project will address the current urban condition in the former Yugoslavia, where Lefebvre was engaged into philosophical debates and urbanistic projects in the 1970s. This part of the project will be developed in collaboration with Gal Kirn, in a joint research project entitled After the self-managed city? Yugoslavian urbanism and the post-socialist condition.
Krakow, PL
Philosophy. Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL.
Architecture. Politechnika Krakowska, Kraków, PL.
Scholarship. Münster University of Applied Sciences, Münster, DE.
Scholarship. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, DE.
Researcher. Department of Architectural Theory. Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Delft, NL.
Collaboration on the research and teaching programme The public space as a medium of communication. Atelier of Sculpture, Faculty of Architecture, Politechnika Krakowska, Kraków, PL.
Peer reviewer for the journals OASE, Footprint – The Delft School of Design journal and for academic publisher Palgrave.
Collaboration on the research programme Social in-habitat. Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, NL.
Participation in the final jury of the project Capital cities: Brasilia. Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, NL.
Co-founder and editor of Footprint - Delft School of Design journal.
Studio Massimiliano Fuksas, Rome, IT.
Independent work on architectural projects, including a house in the Tatra mountains, an exhibition area in Kraków and several interior designs.
Work. Architectuurstudio SITEC BNA, Zwolle, NL.
Apprenticeship. Architekturbüro Bolles+Wilson, Münster, DE.
Organisation of workshop and conference Mindmapping Nowa Huta.
Research scholarship. Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris, Université de Paris 12, Val de Marne, FR.
Research scholarship for the project Retro-socialism in the contemporary European city. Last remnants of the past or emergence of a re-politicized urbanity? Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur.
Research scholarship for the project The theory of production of space by Henri Lefebvre: A critical reconstruction. Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), Zürich, CH.
Individual research grant in Architecture Theory. Collegium Invisibile, Warsaw, PL.
Shortlisted for the James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City.
Shortlisted (third round) in the competition Ein Friedhof der Zukunf. Stuttgart, DE.
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dientst Prize 2002 for excellent foreign student.
Second prize in the students category of the design competition Dom w polskiej tradycji i krajobrazie.
Honourable mention in the AtticAward2000 competition for the multifunctional buildings in the harbour of Hamburg, DE.
First prize in the international student competition Neue Medien. Der Raum und die Grenzen. Neu Landschaften für Lausitz.
Rethinking theory, space and production. Henri Lefebvre today. (11 – 13 November). Organised by Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH); Jan van Eyck Academie & Technische Universiteit. Delft, NL: Technische Universiteit.
Space as concrete abstraction in Henri Lefebvre’s Theory of production of space. In: Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom & Christian Schmid (Eds). Space, difference, everyday life: Reading Henri Lefebvre. London, GB: Routledge.
Lessons from Nanterre. In: Log, Winter.
Die Produktion des städtischen Raums durch massenmediale Erzählpraktiken. Der Fall Nowa Huta. In: C. Bernard & H. Reif (Eds). Städte im Sozialismus. Berlin, DE.
Nowohuckie symulacje: polityka tożsamości konsumpcja przestreni w Nowej Hucie [Simulationen: Identitätspolitik und Raumkonsum in Nowa Huta]. In: Martin Kaltwasser & Jakub Szreder (Eds). Futuryzm miast przemyslowych [Industriestadtfuturismus]. Kraków, PL; London, GB.
Simulation or hospitality. Beyond the crisis of representation in Nowa Huta. In: Lars Frehr & Lars Meier (Eds). Encountering urban places. Visual and material performances in the city, pp. 135-154.
Simulationen. Identitätspolitik und Raumkonsum in Nowa Huta. In: Martin Kaltwasser, Antje Majewski & Jakub Szreder (Eds). Industriestadtfuturismus. 100 Jahre Wolfsburg/Nowa Huta. Frankfurt am Main, DE: Revolver.
The instrumental use of representations of space in the practices of production of space in a postcommunist city. In: Gerhard Bruyns & Patrick Healy (Eds). De-/signing the urban. Technogenesis and the urban image. Delft School of Design series on architecture and urbanism. Rotterdam, NL: 010 Publishers.
Ponowoczesne strategie w poprzemyslowym mieście [Postmodern strategies in a postindustrial city]. With: B.W. Bajor, S. Dousa, J. Wąsacz & Piotr Winskowski. In: J. Purchla (Ed.). Kraków i Norymberga w cywilizacji europejskiej [Kraków and Nürnberg in European civilization]. Kraków, PL.
Naturalność jako projekt [Naturality as a design]. With B.W. Bajor, S. Dousa & J. Wąsacz. In: L. Nyka (Ed.). Architektura wspólczesna wobec natury [Contemporary architecture towards nature]. Gdánsk, PL.
Filozofia jako weidza o niewiedzy [Philosophy as a knowledge about ignorance]. In: Po co filozofia wspó łczesnemu człowiekowi? [Why a contemporary (wo)man needs philosophy?]. Warszawa, PL: Liber.
Idea szklanego domu i przemiany w dekonstrukcji lat 90-tych [The concept of a glass house and the changes in deconstruction in the 1990s]. With Piotr Winskowski. In: E. Rewers (Ed.). Przestrzeń, filozofia, architektura [Space, philosophy, architecture]. Poznań, PL.
Re-reading The production of space. Towards a methodology of urban research. In: Zeithistorische Forschung, 3.
Trans-disciplinarity: The singularities and multiplicities of architecture. With Tahl Kaminer. In: Footprint. Delft School of Design Journal, 1.
Architektura jako krytyka i jako projekt [Architecture as a critique and as a project]. In: Piktogram, 4.
Symulacje i gościność: Kryzys reprezentacji w Nowej Hucie. In: Obieg, 1.
Mapowanie Nowej Huty [Mapping Nova Huta]. In: Architektura & Biznes, 7-8.
Budynki, które pozwalają oddychać. Z Wolfgangiem Welschem rozmawia Łukasz Stanek [Buildings that let us breath. Interview with Wolfgang Welsch]. In: Opcje, 3(44).
Dom akademicki przy ulicy Nawojki [Students’ house at ul. Nawojki]. In: Architektura & Biznes, 11.
Dom narodowy: Architektura, historia, polityka [National house: Architecture, history, politics]. In: Architektura & Biznes, 3.
Bolles+Wilson: Teatr New Luxor w Rotterdamie [Bolles+Wilson: The new Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam]. In: Architektura & Biznes, 11.
Dekonstrukcja a dekonstruktywizm. Koncepcja architektury i architektoniczności w filozofii Jacques Derridy [Deconstruction and deconstructionism. The concept of architecture and architecturality in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida]. In: Archivolta, 4.
Porządkowanie wirtualnych struktur [Order in virtual structures]. In: Architektura & Biznes, 10.
Logik i mistyk o nieskończoności. O myśleniu Jana Dunsa Szkota i Mistrza Eckharta [A logician and a mystic speaking about infinity. The thinking of Iohannes Duns Scotus and Meister Eckhart]. In: Principia, XXI-XXII.
Nowe media - przestrzeń i granice [New media - the space and the borders]. In: Architektura & Biznes, 11.
The production of urban space by mass media storytelling practices: Nowa Huta as a case study. Cambridge, US: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Published on: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit4/papers/stanek.pdf.
2001-2003
Szkoly mówienia [Schools of speaking]. In: Architektura & Biznes. Series of short essays on architectural theory. Kraków, PL.
The emergence of urban society? The research of the Institut de Sociologie Urbaine (1962-1974). (26 October). In: In search of the Postfordist city. New York, US: Fordham University.
Urban territory and spatial agency. (12 September). In: Dutch artistic research event #3. Spatial practices. Utrecht, NL: Graduate School of Visual Art and Design.
Henri Lefebvre and the European city after the welfare state. (29 August). In: 9th International conference on urban history. Paris, FR: École Normale Supérieure - Lettres et Sciences Humaines.
Autogestion. (12 July). In: Lefebvre total. Workshop für ein kohärentes Lefebvre-Verständnis. Berlin, DE: Technische Universität Berlin.
Konkrete Abstraktion. (11 July). In: Lefebvre total. Workshop für ein kohärentes Lefebvre-Verständnis. Berlin, DE: Technische Universität Berlin.
Henri Lefebvre et la recherche urbaine au delà de la France. (12 June). Val de Marne, FR: Université de Paris 12.
The production of commons, subjectivity and space. (5 June). In: Communists like us. The production of commons, subjectivity and space. Introduction of symposium. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Henri Lefebvre and the concrete research of space. Urban theory, empirical studies, architecture practice. (19 May). Dissertation defense. Delft, NL: Technische Universiteit.
The production of place. Henri Lefebvre, architecture and the politics of scale. (13 November). In: ASCA Space soirees. Amsterdam, NL: Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.
Lefebvre: The urban revolution. (11 November). In: Architecture theory. The urban question. Delft, NL: Technische Universiteit.
Lefebvre as a thinker of habitation I. (2 October). In: Social in-habitat Caracas. Rotterdam, NL: Berlage Institute.
Markt-collectivismus und die Produktion der gegenwärtigen europäischen Stadt. (2 June). Graz, AT: Technische Universität Graz.
The production of space in Nowa Huta. (27 February). Ghent, BE: Sint-Lucas Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst.
Retro-socialism. (17 February). With BAVO, Gideon Boie, Matthias Pauwels. Amsterdam, NL: 66 East - Centre for Urban Culture.
Retro-socialism. (5 January). With BAVO, Gideon Boie, Matthias Pauwels. In: Spaces of culture. Kraków, PL: Bunkier Sztuki Kraków.
The instrumental use of representations of space in the practices of production of space in a postcommunist city. (26 September). In: Konkurrenzen, Interferenzen, Umbrüche. Architektur, Städtebau und Alltagskultur in Ost- und Westeuropa 1960-1989. Hamburg, DE: Hamburgische Architektenkammer.
La production de l’espace par les représentations médiatiques: Nowa Huta (Pologne) comme une étude de cas. (29 June). In: Henri Lefebvre: Penser les possible. Paris, FR: Université de Paris VIII-Vincennes.
Applying Henri Lefebvre’s theory of production of space to urban empirical research in Central Europe. (13 May). In: Power, state and society: Interdisciplinary approaches to discourses, social groups and agency in Central and Eastern Europe. Budapest, HU: Central European University.
Appropriating Lefebvre for empirical urban research: Castells, Soja, Schmid. (24 March). In: Switzerland. An urban portrait with Christian Schmid. Delft, NL: Delft School of Design (DSD).
Lefebvre’s The urban revolution: Towards an epistemology of the urban. (8 November). In: The urban question. Delft, NL: Delft School of Design (DSD).
Simulating Nowa Huta: The crisis of representation in a postcommunist city and its consequences for the production of urban space. (13 October). In: Technological and aesthetic (trans)formations of society. Darmstadt, DE: Technische Universität Darmstadt.
Nowa Huta and the crisis of representation. (9 September). In: Industriestadt-Futurismus 100 Jahre Wolfsburg. Organised by Büro Kopernikus; Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Nowa Huta, PL: Teatr Laznia Nowa.
The production of urban spaces by mass media storytelling practices. (7 May). In: MIT4: The work of stories. Cambridge, US: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Métropolitains: L’architecture et la ville. (16 July). With Michèle Jolé, Thierry Paquot & Christian Schmid. Paris, FR: Radio France Culture.
Charles Fourier. The architecture of populism. (26 June). In: The autonomy project. With Pier Vittorio Aureli. Rotterdam, NL: Berlage Institute.
Lefebvre as a thinker of habitation II. In: Social in-habitat Caracas. (1 – 4 February). Rotterdam, NL: Berlage Institute.
Industriestadtfuturismus: 100 Jahre Wolfsburg/Nowa Huta. (10 December 2005 – 19 February 2006). Wolfsburg, DE: Kunstverein Wolfsburg.
SFX: Publiczność. Spontane Öffentlichkeiten. (3 September – 30 October). Münster, DE: Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster.