01
Speculative Warsaw Masterclass
What if Warsaw became a co-author of its own future: not the backdrop against which we design, but a sense we don't yet know how to listen to?
In this intensive futures design course we are learning to look at our city the way one looks at someone not yet known: without assumptions, attentive to what the data doesn't record but the body already feels, encodes, notices. Warsaw carries within it destruction, reconstruction, and inequality, but also a readiness to be endlessly reimagined. Our tool for knowing and imagining the city is speculation (- a mental framework that allows us to create alternative scenarios for the city's future. But this is a local, situated speculation, rooted in the body and place rather than in abstraction.
We ask students to explore Warsaw through questions: why do we need new tools of imagination? Whose experiences count when thinking about the future — whose bodies, whose traces of experience, whose footsteps measuring the space between what already was and what might yet be? Can design be a practice of reflection rather than aesthetics?
Where
School of Form
Format
Weekend and a week-long intentive course as part of Master Workshops guest Lecturing
02
Mirror Walks
The Wisła and the Seine carry centuries of movement, memory, and forgetting — more history than Warsaw or Paris consciously hold onto.
Speculative Mirroring: River Walks is an ongoing collaborative research project pairing the Experimental Walk method, developed by design researchers Julia W. Szagdaj and Beata Giermasińska. For Mirror Walks we collaborate wwith the immersive theatre practice of French director Mélanie Esther Dorey — using the riverbank itself as common ground between the two cities.
The project approaches memory not as something fixed, but as something we re-enact, misplace, and occasionally reinvent: what stays, what disappears, and what gets quietly written off as too strange to be true.
Participants are invited to become speculative cartographers. Guided by an actor into a territory that belongs to neither country, it trace signs of Polish presence along the Seine, layering what they notice onto a shared map that grows across both days rather than starting over. The map is intended to remain on public view at the venue afterward, open to anyone who walks in.
Format
ongoing research project
03
Mapping the City through Senses: Multisensory Ethnography in Practice
This workshop, held at 2026 Re-mind conference offered an embodied, practice-based approach to exploring urban space through the senses.
Drawing on multisensory ethnography, participans treated sensing itself as a way of knowing. In small groups, they take part in a collective walk guided by open-ended "Re-Attune Maps" — abstract prompts that invite pauses, shifts in attention, and heightened awareness, inspired by Anna Tsing's "arts of noticing" and Donna Haraway's situated ways of knowing.
The walk becomes a practice of "signal scanning" — noticing alignment, dissonance, and what usually goes unrecognized as data. Afterward, participants translate their observations into maps, annotations, and collages, layering them into a shared cartographic assemblage — a speculative, multisensory portrait of the conference grounds.
Where
Re-mind conference, 2026 in Wroclaw, Poland
Format
In person workshop (4 hours)
01
Speculative Warsaw Masterclass
What if Warsaw became a co-author of its own future: not the backdrop against which we design, but a sense we don't yet know how to listen to?
In this intensive futures design course we are learning to look at our city the way one looks at someone not yet known: without assumptions, attentive to what the data doesn't record but the body already feels, encodes, notices. Warsaw carries within it destruction, reconstruction, and inequality, but also a readiness to be endlessly reimagined. Our tool for knowing and imagining the city is speculation (- a mental framework that allows us to create alternative scenarios for the city's future. But this is a local, situated speculation, rooted in the body and place rather than in abstraction.
We ask students to explore Warsaw through questions: why do we need new tools of imagination? Whose experiences count when thinking about the future — whose bodies, whose traces of experience, whose footsteps measuring the space between what already was and what might yet be? Can design be a practice of reflection rather than aesthetics?
Where
School of Form
Format
Weekend and a week-long intentive course as part of Master Workshops guest Lecturing
02
Mirror Walks
The Wisła and the Seine carry centuries of movement, memory, and forgetting — more history than Warsaw or Paris consciously hold onto.
Speculative Mirroring: River Walks is an ongoing collaborative research project pairing the Experimental Walk method, developed by design researchers Julia W. Szagdaj and Beata Giermasińska. For Mirror Walks we collaborate wwith the immersive theatre practice of French director Mélanie Esther Dorey — using the riverbank itself as common ground between the two cities.
The project approaches memory not as something fixed, but as something we re-enact, misplace, and occasionally reinvent: what stays, what disappears, and what gets quietly written off as too strange to be true.
Participants are invited to become speculative cartographers. Guided by an actor into a territory that belongs to neither country, it trace signs of Polish presence along the Seine, layering what they notice onto a shared map that grows across both days rather than starting over. The map is intended to remain on public view at the venue afterward, open to anyone who walks in.
Format
ongoing research project
03
Mapping the City through Senses: Multisensory Ethnography in Practice
This workshop, held at 2026 Re-mind conference offered an embodied, practice-based approach to exploring urban space through the senses.
Drawing on multisensory ethnography, participans treated sensing itself as a way of knowing. In small groups, they take part in a collective walk guided by open-ended "Re-Attune Maps" — abstract prompts that invite pauses, shifts in attention, and heightened awareness, inspired by Anna Tsing's "arts of noticing" and Donna Haraway's situated ways of knowing.
The walk becomes a practice of "signal scanning" — noticing alignment, dissonance, and what usually goes unrecognized as data. Afterward, participants translate their observations into maps, annotations, and collages, layering them into a shared cartographic assemblage — a speculative, multisensory portrait of the conference grounds.
Where
Re-mind conference, 2026 in Wroclaw, Poland
Format
In person workshop (4 hours)
01
Speculative Warsaw Masterclass
What if Warsaw became a co-author of its own future: not the backdrop against which we design, but a sense we don't yet know how to listen to?
In this intensive futures design course we are learning to look at our city the way one looks at someone not yet known: without assumptions, attentive to what the data doesn't record but the body already feels, encodes, notices. Warsaw carries within it destruction, reconstruction, and inequality, but also a readiness to be endlessly reimagined. Our tool for knowing and imagining the city is speculation (- a mental framework that allows us to create alternative scenarios for the city's future. But this is a local, situated speculation, rooted in the body and place rather than in abstraction.
We ask students to explore Warsaw through questions: why do we need new tools of imagination? Whose experiences count when thinking about the future — whose bodies, whose traces of experience, whose footsteps measuring the space between what already was and what might yet be? Can design be a practice of reflection rather than aesthetics?
Where
School of Form
Format
Weekend and a week-long intensive course as part of Master Workshop
02
Mirror Walks
The Wisła and the Seine carry centuries of movement, memory, and forgetting — more history than Warsaw or Paris consciously hold onto.
Speculative Mirroring: River Walks is an ongoing collaborative research project pairing the Experimental Walk method, developed by design researchers Julia W. Szagdaj and Beata Giermasińska. For Mirror Walks we collaborate wwith the immersive theatre practice of French director Mélanie Esther Dorey — using the riverbank itself as common ground between the two cities.
The project approaches memory not as something fixed, but as something we re-enact, misplace, and occasionally reinvent: what stays, what disappears, and what gets quietly written off as too strange to be true.
Participants are invited to become speculative cartographers. Guided by an actor into a territory that belongs to neither country, it trace signs of Polish presence along the Seine, layering what they notice onto a shared map that grows across both days rather than starting over. The map is intended to remain on public view at the venue afterward, open to anyone who walks in.
Format
ongoing research project
03
Mapping the City through Senses: Multisensory Ethnography in Practice
This workshop, held at 2026 Re-mind conference offered an embodied, practice-based approach to exploring urban space through the senses.
Drawing on multisensory ethnography, participants treated sensing itself as a way of knowing. In small groups, they take part in a collective walk guided by open-ended "Re-Attune Maps" - abstract prompts that invite pauses, shifts in attention, and heightened awareness, inspired by Anna Tsing's "arts of noticing".
The walk becomes a practice of "signal scanning" - noticing alignment, dissonance, and what usually goes unrecognized as data.
Afterward, participants translate their observations into maps, annotations, and collages, layering them into a shared cartographic assemblage — a speculative, multisensory portrait of the conference grounds.
Where
Re-mind conference, 2026 in Wroclaw, Poland
Format
In person workshop (4 hours)
