Marta Smagacz-Poziemska - sociologist of the city, space and local communities. She has conducted research on, among other things, revitalization, processes of producing differences and boundaries in metropolitan settlements, attitudes of teenagers towards the city. She is currently the manager of an NCN project entitled "Normalność w warunkach niepewności. Perspektywa prakseologiczna w badaniach (re)produkcji 'normalnego' życia miejskiego". Vice-coordinator from 2015 to 2017 and coordinator of the 37th Research Network - Urban Sociology at the European Sociological Association (ESA) from 2017 to 2021; member of the Scientific Advisory Board of JPI Urban Europe from 2017 to 2021. For nearly 20 years - as an expert, researcher, facilitator - she has worked with local, regional and international public institutions and NGOs. For more than 10 years, she has been co-organizing - together with the Faculty of Interior Design of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Architecture of the Krakow University of Technology - the student interdisciplinary design workshop "Nowa Przestrzeń".