residency: April—May 2025
SAM Rozkwit
- Urban Activities Association Rozkwit is a non-governmental organization established in 2017 as an initiative for protection, accessibility, and diversity of green spaces—primarily allotment gardens. It operates at the intersection of art, design, social integration, and urban activism. Between 2019 and 2022, Rozkwit developed the program Naprzód działki for the Warsaw Greenery Authority, aiming to support allotment gardens and improve their accessibility.
- Other projects and detailed information can be found at: samrozkwit.org.
- Aleksandra Andrzejewska
- Architect by training, with master's degree in the humanities and an unfinished PhD in philosophy. Co-founder of SAM Rozkwit. Lecturer at the School of Form, SWPS University in Warsaw, Faculty of Design. Member of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Thought. Gardener.
- Megi Malinowska
- Trained as an architect. Lives and works in Gdynia. Designer and co-founder of the furniture brand Tabanda, active since 2009. Lecturer at the School of Form, SWPS University in Warsaw. She teaches product design, often addressing topics of sustainability, care for non-human inhabitants, and community-building. Member of SAM Rozkwit and co-founder of the design studio Proto Typy at PPNT in Gdynia.
- Photo: Kuba Rodziewicz
