Agnieszka Labus
Initiator of the establishment of the LAB 60+ Foundation. Architect and urban planner, assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Spatial Planning at the Faculty of Architecture at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. She was the first in Poland to undertake a scientific discourse on the concept of renewal of European cities in the 21st century in the context of an aging population. She is a graduate of the largest government program supporting innovation in science TOP 500 Innovators. She has completed numerous foreign scientific and training internships at the world’s top universities: Berkeley University in the United States, the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Madrid in Spain.
Agnieszka Labus, is a respected and award-winning expert, not only in Poland, but also abroad. She has been awarded for her work by numerous bodies, including the winner of the Polityka Science Prize (2014), the winner of the “Start” program of the Foundation for Polish Science (2015), the winner of a scholarship for outstanding young scientists (2013-2016), the winner of the 2018 O Prize awarded by the Polish Culture Portal O.pl for establishing the 60+ Architecture Laboratory Foundation.
She has been promoting positive and healthy aging for more than 14 years, and has conducted scientific research on the paradigm shift in the approach to space design towards longevity. She believes that living long and aging positively is like a trip around the world, so it must be planned early in terms of budget, accommodations, transportation and experiences, and architecture and design play a key role in this journey.
