Overview
Track
Track 2: Ensuring the Economic Diversity and resilience
Company / Institute
Gdansk University of Technology
Position
Assistant Professor
I'm interested in
City and Regional Planning
ICT, Modelling, GIS
Sustainability and Resilience
Bio
Hanna Obracht-Prondzynska is an architect, urban planner and spatial data scientist with an experience gained while working on urban projects in Poland, U.S., China, South Africa, Romania etc. For the last five years she was a spatial planning specialist at the Pomeranian Office for Regional Planning (Poland), where she was working on the development plan for the Pomeranian region and the metropolitan area of Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot. Additionally, she codesigned policies for urban functional areas and introduced conceptual studies such as e.g. the urban development among the Pomeranian metropolitan railway.
Currently she works as a researcher and lecturer at the Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning where she received her Master degree in architecture and urban design. She was also studying at the Vienna University of Technology and graduated Warsaw University of Technology as a GIS analyst.
Since then, her professional practice focuses on data driven design while her research concentrates on enhancing urban data management and data visualisation aiming to introduce tools for shaping and implementing urban policies and supporting urban processes.
She is a cofounder of GUT Urban Data Lab as well as a board member of the Polish Society of Town Planners and an active member of the International Society for City and Regional Planners. In ISOCARP she participated congresses, coordinated YPP workshops and introduced Mentor&Student Research Lab – platform for e-research cooperation.
Recently, she was working on research grants: RESTORE REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy, funded within COST CA16114; ERA-NET CRUNCH project: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus CHoices: operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus. Additionally, she is actively involved in urban projects, trainings for architectural students and educational projects aiming to improve the quality of built environment.
