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Projects that shape space

Discover projects and initiatives carried out by a team of experts, often in collaboration with various organizations. Each one responds to real needs and represents a step toward positive change.

Three concepts for transforming parts of Rzeszów city center and community-based city design

In May 2025, Pracownia Zmiany, together with Strefa Działań Miejskich and local activists and residents of Rzeszów, started a process to design three public spaces in the city center.

Why doesn’t Laboratorium Zmiany stop in Warsaw? An interview with Marcel Świerkocki

What is it like to work with cities that are just starting their path toward a better, greener future? And why are small successes sometimes more important than big visions?

Interview: “Advertising Chaos vs. Order: How Urban Design Can Shape Our Cities”

Kamil Kubik and Przemysław Ostaszewski, experts in urban space and sign design, talk with Pracownia Zmiany about the future of advertising in Poland.

How to Create a Beautiful City? A New Laboratorium Zmiany Webinar

We would like to invite you to another online meeting as part of the Laboratorium Zmiany program, run in cooperation with the EFC Foundation. This time, the webinar will focus on the aesthetics of public spaces.

How to “Deconcrete” Your Yard, Street, and City? Another Laboratorium Zmiany Webinar

The webinar will focus on urban greenery and deconcreting public spaces. It will be led by Jan Mencwel – social activist, books author, Warsaw city councilor, and co-founder of the association Miasto Jest Nasze.

Pracownia Zmiany at the NECE Meeting in Oslo

In March 2025, we had the pleasure of taking part in the international event Hope as a Civic Skill, organized in Oslo by NECE – Networking European Civic Education.

“School Streets Are a Concrete Change We Can Make Here and Now”

How can we improve children’s safety on the way to school? We discussed these questions with Agnieszka Krzyżak-Pitura, an expert in urban mobility.

Laboratorium Zmiany Webinar: “How to Start School Streets in Your City”

Pracownia Zmiany, in cooperation with the EFC Foundation, invites you to a webinar on creating school streets.

Report: “Chatbots for Local Governments – Assessing the Potential”

We present the first report in Poland analyzing the potential of AI-based tools for communication between local governments and residents.

Continuing Our Cooperation with the EFC Foundation!

Pracownia Zmiany started working with the EFC Foundation in 2024. Now we are taking the next step – we received a grant to support activists in their local projects.

How Aesthetics Can Change a Space: Pracownia Zmiany Workshops in Izabelin

In February 2024, Pracownia Zmiany held workshops on the aesthetics of signs in Izabelin. The goal was to help local business owners adjust their signs and advertisements to meet the rules of the local landscape resolution.

Get Out and Vote! Mobilizing Citizens to Participate

Between March and April 2024, we encouraged the residents of Warsaw to take part in the upcoming elections through a special campaign promoting voter participation.

Spatial order of tourist cities

The expert team of Pracownia Zmiany has supported the ‘Flins’ Association in preparing comments on the change project Study of Conditions and Directions of Spatial Development in the City of Świeradów-Zdrój.

The first Pracownia Zmiany project: ’DeConcreted’

The largest urban movement in Poland – Miasto Jest Nasze – established a think-tank. The Pracownia Zmiany Foundation aims to support wise green changes in Polish cities and to support those fighting for them.

Chatbots for Local Governments? Let’s Check!

Can new technologies make it easier for local governments to communicate with residents? Or will they make it more difficult? The Chatbots for Local Governments project aims to answer these questions.