Jury
Andrzej Betlej
Andrzej Betlej – art historian, professor of the humanities, employed at the Jagiellonian University Institute of Art History. Director of the Jagiellonian University Institute of Art History in 2012-2016, director of the National Museum in Krakow in 2016-2019. His tenure coincided with the completion of the conservation renovation and the opening of a new exhibition at the Princes Czartoryski Museum, branch of the National Museum in Krakow. In 2020, he was appointed director of the Wawel Royal Castle – State Art Collections. During his tenure, Wawel Castle underwent an overhaul; the previously closed Royal Gardens and the Gereon Church were opened to the public, along with new permanent exhibitions – a result of completed investments – including the Crown Treasury, the Underground Wawel Castle, the Lapidarium and the Zwinger, as well as the Wawel Town in the Small Tower. His research interests focus on modern art, in particular on heritage preservation. At the Wawel Royal Castle, with the help of his Team, he has been nurturing the memory of the heritage of the past for more than six years by organising cross-sectional exhibitions (All the King’s Tapestries. Returns 2021 – 1961 – 1921, Image of the Golden Age), as well as engaging in a dialogue with the present, as evidenced by contemporary artistic interventions inspired by the art and history of Wawel Castle.
Denis Bocquet
Denis Bocquet, born in 1970 in the French Alps, has been a professor at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Strasbourg (France) since 2014, where he directs the master’s studies in urban planning. He is a graduate of École Normale Supérieure (1990-1994) and holds a degree in history from Sorbonne University and in urban planning from the University of Paris-Est. He worked as an assistant at the University in Aix-en-Provence, where he conducted research in history and urban planning at the French school in Rome (1999-2002), and was also a lecturer at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. He lectured at the Technische Universität Dresden (2007-2011) and the Technische Universität Berlin. He is the author of numerous articles and publications on European cities. He is the editor-in-chief of the Espaces et Sociétés journal.
Justyna Dziedziejko
A graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. She received first prize in the Concrete Architecture 2024 competition for her diploma thesis. A graduate of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Since 2018, she has been working at the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology in the Department of Architectural and Urban Design. Since 2017, she has been a co-owner of the Warsaw-based landscape design studio topoScape. She is a winner of numerous competitions (together with the topoScape and Archigrest teams) for parks in Warsaw and Bieżuń, as well as a co-author of award-winning works in architectural competitions carried out in cooperation with: Archigrest, Grupa 5 Architekci, Bujnowski Architekci, TŁO-Michał Sikorski. She is also the author of the design for the “Akcja Burza” Park on the Warsaw Uprising Mound. The park received first prizes in the following competitions: European Prize for Urban Public Space 2024, European Garden Award 2025, and was the winner of three categories of the Architectural Awards of the Mayor of the City of Warsaw, including the Grand Prix of the competition, the Grand Prix of the Architectural Award of the weekly magazine “Polityka,” and first prize in the Polish Cement in Architecture competition. The park was also the winner of the Landezine International Landscape Award (LILA) international competition.
Urszula Forczek-Brataniec
A graduate of Cracow University of Technology, DSc (habilitation) in technical sciences specializing in landscape architecture, and Professor at Cracow University of Technology. Since 2007, a designer at eM4. Pracownia Architektury. Brataniec, specializing in public space and landscape architecture projects. Member of the Association of Polish Architects (SARP), Krakow and a certified SARP competition judge. Between 2016 and 2020, she served as Secretary General of IFLA Europe. Since 2016, a member of the Presidium of the Scientific Council of the Pieniny National Park and a long-standing board member of the Polish Landscape Architecture Association (SAK).
Curator of international landscape architecture exhibitions, including the Visegrad Group exhibitions CLAV 2012 and 2015, as well as the IFLA Europe exhibitions in 2018 and 2022. Author of landscape studies and analyses, and two monographs: “View from the Road: Landscape in Dynamic Perception” (2008) and “Visible Space: A Visual Analysis in Landscape Planning and Design” (2018), the latter awarded the Gaudeamus Prize.
Co-author of award-winning and published projects, including: Revitalization of the Old Town of Gorlice (Public Space 2014 Nomination, Landscape Architecture Europe 2015 publication); Educational Pavilion in Warsaw (City of Warsaw President’s Award in the Public Space category, Grand Prix of the Polityka Architectural Award, LILA AWARD shortlist 2021, 2024). Co-author of a project recognized in the Design Educates Awards in 2022 and 2023.
