The participants of the program met on November 17th in Koneser in Warsaw’s Praga. “Ticket for the Horizon” from Agnieszka Labus won Władysław Kijewska, an architect and an urban planner who believes that architecture is socially necessary. In 2016 she received the Main Award for her master’s diploma in the subject of revitalization awarded by the Institute of Urban Development and completed an internship at IRM, where she conducted research on the dysfunction of contemporary housing in Poland. Her main area of ​​interest is the design of public spaces, as most strongly associated with the sphere of social life, therefore she wants to work to improve its quality and plans to create a collective /a platform in the future dealing with an innovative approach to the design of public spaces.

Three ambitious and wise people were on the podium:

Natalia Cieszyńska– a landscape architect, also completed specialized courses for care for the elderly in Great Britain. Natalia wanted to create the concept of a retirement home with a garden that would provide various and non-standard functions in the LAB 60+ trend. This LAB60+ trend – it is different than the stereotypical perception of old age – we see old age not as something that happens to us but a long-lasting process that begins already after 40 – such seeing of the old age makes us look at infrastructure design in a different way.

Aleksandra Wójcik – a student of Slavic philology, specializing in bohemistry, is the youngest finalist, but can already boast of significant achievements in the field of research onthe Central European architecture and urban planning. Ola plans to start architectural studies in Prague after graduating from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

Jakub Drzastwa – a cultural animator, a theatre teacher, a designer, a producer, a coordinator and a curator of cultural and theatre projects, an author of a stage design and music. We were intrigued by his work and the fact that many of his projects were created out of the desire to act at the interface between the realms of life and art, because, as he himself claims, they  are the most innovative solutions (more: http://kubadrzastwa.pl/)