Aleksandra Hantkiewicz-Lejman (PL)

UX/UI designer, product owner and urban planner. She has extensive design experience in all scales and many specialized thematic contexts. In recent years, she has worked on urban projects combining user experience research, design, prototyping and public participation. The processes she has co-designed have been awarded prizes in the Society of Polish Urban Planners’ competition for the best developed public space in Poland (2023) and the European Commission’s Mobility Action Award for the most important and best action on sustainable mobility in the European Union (2022). She is the originator and author of the Public Green Space Management Systems for the City of Tychy and for Zduńska Wola, which form the basis of a coherent, long-term policy for the development of urban green spaces. She organizes and conducts custom creative workshops involving users and all kinds of stakeholders in the field of urban planning and IT. For many years, she has been the organizer and product owner of the largest urban workshops for architecture and urban planning students in Poland, the Architektour. Currently, she uses her experience designing UX/UI digital products for the commercial market, continuing to develop her management and coordination skills. She works in scrum methodology while simultaneously training as a Scrum Product Owner.

City-laboratory

Referring to our experience in managing the “Rawa Laboratory” process and other prototyping activities we have implemented, we will talk about experimentation as a research tool to support urban design. We will outline the key role of change modeling, which allows us to discover and evaluate the many aspects of the proposed changes and their consequences before they are implemented in a (relatively) permanent form. We will compare digital and analog modeling, pointing out their peculiarities, possibilities and limitations. Above all, we will draw attention to the problem of planning socialization, which lends a political dimension to technical issues.