Teaching & Educational Work
Michal Jurgielewicz is an artist and educator currently teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, in the Department of New Media. He previously served as an Adjunct Professor and Year 4 Design Studio Leader at INDA, the International Program in Design and Architecture in Bangkok, Thailand, from 2019 to 2022. He has also been invited as a guest lecturer, critic, and seminar leader at institutions including the Architectural Association School of Architecture (London), Aarhus School of Architecture, The Bartlett (UCL), Hong Kong University, City University of Hong Kong, EDUMEET Madrid, Space Saloon, and OSSA.
As an educator, Michal is committed to exploring alternative pedagogies that emphasize experimentation, collaboration, and peer-to-peer learning. His teaching introduces formats and routines that help students articulate their own positions within contemporary digital cultures, with a focus on climate change, global and trans-local trends, and emergent civic typologies. Through research, writing, and 3D narrative media—including game engines, open-world environments, and asset archives—he examines the culture-shaping roles of emerging technologies in spatial practice. In May 2020, during the global lockdown, he coordinated and developed the virtual infrastructure, protocols, and 3D online environment for Inda Parade 2020, an international end-of-year virtual student festival that reimagined the entire architecture program through remote and immersive formats. He also initiated and curated INDA’s first public online lecture series, Never The Right Time, designed as an essential alternative space within the school. The program featured speakers such as Alice Bucknell, Lindsay Bremner, School of Commons, Dank Lloyd Wright, and Tuliza Sindi, and addressed the futures of education, participation, and design practice.
His academic and artistic interests lie in urbanization processes, climate-altered landscapes, and the politics of information and resources. In May–June 2022, he coordinated Arctic Urbanism: City-Building Above the Polar Regions, a field research trip aimed at documenting and theorizing approaches to inhabiting one of the planet’s most extreme environments.
As an educator, Michal is committed to exploring alternative pedagogies that emphasize experimentation, collaboration, and peer-to-peer learning. His teaching introduces formats and routines that help students articulate their own positions within contemporary digital cultures, with a focus on climate change, global and trans-local trends, and emergent civic typologies. Through research, writing, and 3D narrative media—including game engines, open-world environments, and asset archives—he examines the culture-shaping roles of emerging technologies in spatial practice. In May 2020, during the global lockdown, he coordinated and developed the virtual infrastructure, protocols, and 3D online environment for Inda Parade 2020, an international end-of-year virtual student festival that reimagined the entire architecture program through remote and immersive formats. He also initiated and curated INDA’s first public online lecture series, Never The Right Time, designed as an essential alternative space within the school. The program featured speakers such as Alice Bucknell, Lindsay Bremner, School of Commons, Dank Lloyd Wright, and Tuliza Sindi, and addressed the futures of education, participation, and design practice.
His academic and artistic interests lie in urbanization processes, climate-altered landscapes, and the politics of information and resources. In May–June 2022, he coordinated Arctic Urbanism: City-Building Above the Polar Regions, a field research trip aimed at documenting and theorizing approaches to inhabiting one of the planet’s most extreme environments.
School of Many Schools focuses on peer-to-peer learning formats, building and exploring speculative future scenarios through world-building, cinema, games, and publishing.
Footnotes: Annotating the Future of Arts Education
Footnotes is a Summer School for academics, professionals, students and curious people organised by School of Commons. It will take place from 29. August to 1. September 2022, on the campus of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
Footnotes is conceived as a Live Action Role-Playing Game, which will unfurl from a speculative scenario. Assume a fictional character to interpret and design future realities. No prior experience needed.
Footnotes will be split into three workshop days and two conference days. You can register for the workshops and the conference separately, but you are also welcome to attend both. Choose between seven groups, each exploring a specific theme: Digital Cultures of Education, Art and Society, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, Knowledge Commons, Institutional Structures and Strategies, Ecological and Social Sustainability, the Institutional vs. the Non-Institutional.
participant
School of Commons
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Zurich, Switzerland, 2022
Arctic Urbanism: City-Building Above the Polar Region
The Arctic, a fetishized territory, almost always exoticised and often considered a ‘frontier’ to human settlement and modernity, despite having been inhabited for millennia, falls across national, environmental, and mythological boundaries. One of the fastest-populating regions in the world, the Arctic lies at the intersection of climate change, post-colonialism, extractivism, indigenous sovereignty claims, and new trade routes. It is also a venue for radical urbanisation: resurrected indigenous architectural practices, reconstructed ruins, underground apocalyptic vaults, collapsing Cold War infrastructure, shifting design paradigms, avalanche-reactive zoning, and nostalgic cities. The unique spatial attributes of the contemporary Arctic formed the basis of “Arctic Urbanism: City-Building Above the Polar Region”, a research trip to document and theorise different tactics for inhabiting one of the harshest territories on the planet.
program leader with Eduardo Cassina
Experiencing Architecture, Summer Program, sem ii , 2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022
Never The Right Time: Public Lecture Series
We are dwelling in uncertainties of our world, its climate, accelerated and volatile market, blurred boundaries of profession, life opportunities and challenges, liquidated institutions. We share the vulnerability, dreams, ideas, desires and attitudes towards the common present and the future - learning how we could describe, define the world to recognize its diversity and our interdependence. It's hard to find a right time for all of that, therefore we need practices to stretch time and space where we can build imaginaries of our present.
'Never the Right Time Public Lecture Series" acts as an amplifier inviting radical thinkers and practitioners to discuss our common ground and ways of possible world building.”
During one year, I had a pleasure to invite and host incredible speakers: Alice Bucknell, Lindsay Bremner, Dank Lloyd Wright, School of Commons, and Tuliza Sindi. As well as collaborating on visual direction with Thai artist Cuscus the Cookoos who develeoped posters for the series.
independent lecture series
program coordinator
2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022
metametameta.io
Metaverse has recently become one of the hottest topics in the innovation driven media narratives. It’s not necessarily clear what this is or might be. The market definition/s are yet to be promoted, and what is clear now is the massive capital interest to pioneer in this venture. One thing is sure - the internet is not going anywhere and we need to evaluate, discuss and build better personal and public spaces, practices, methodologies in the online/digital. Why we need to reevaluate contemporary digital developments and how to build digital infrastructures as spaces to learn, play, exchange and experiment with different forms of governance and online cultures, as an active participatory process, becomes the core question of the studio.
studio leader
Year 4 Design Studio, sem ii , 2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022
The School In Real Time
“Organizing a condensed 24-hour event series that mixes physical and virtual presence seemed very relevant to the current moment we live in. Social media has altered the way knowledge is consumed, as attention spans are becoming fragmented. At the same time, we have access to increasingly rich experiences of digital connectivity. In this context, architecture benefits greatly from plugging in to the broader circulation of ideas, so finding new ways of engaging with different parts of the world becomes crucial in forming a progressive architectural agenda”.
The program will explore how emergent tools, practices, and spaces of the immaterial realm are becoming a crucial form of architectural engagement.
studio leader in participation with students Nana Boonorm, Supanat Chaiyanopakul, Thanakorn Phonthanakornkul
Aarhus School of Architecture
Aarhus, Denmark, 2021
Faculty of Transmissions Research Paper
The Faculty of Transmissions looks at the potentials and new preferable forms of pedagogy, production, and mediation of knowledge. How do we form collaborations and how can we provide common ground for both the individual and collective growth is essential when establishing new learning frameworks, important as the alternatives to the institutions that are deep in crisis. It seeks to operate with community-rooted principles at multiple scales, across many generations, and timelines. This proposal discusses an alternative form of publicly funded and inclusive educational networks, reimagined through the infrastructure of web 3.0 and blockchain, inviting students, public, radical thinkers and anyone willing to participate and shape a dynamic curriculum composed as the school of many schools with the unlearning attitude at heart.
Gitcoin Grant project proposal
Paradise Estate
Travel has long associations with the idea of growth and progress. Having imperial and colonial roots, movement in space and the arrival to the “destination” carries the promise of “new” as the “experience” of the “other” could become transformative, rebooting the “self” - the body and mind of the visitor. This unfolding hyper-preservation and alienation of the place through the media-constructed image of the paradise paradoxically goes hand in hand with the rapid development and transformation of the environment with attention economy as the main driving force. With so many bodies, species, machines, resources, and planetary-scale infrastructures involved deeply in the production of free time, the studio aims to focus on land study to map and unlearn the concept of real-estate, exploring its complex territorial, cultural, social, and ecological dimensions of tourism. Working with cinema as your medium, you will construct alternative environmental and geo-political scenarios developed from your research and proposed changes in human culture.
studio leader
Year 4 Design Studio, sem ii , 2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2021
EDUMEET. International Congress on Transfers for Innovation and Pedagogical Change 2020
Madrid, Spain, 2020
Charette, Catalyst of Pedagogies, the journal of AEE, Association of Architecture Educators
> see pdf hereJournal, 2020
What Texture Pack Is This? Post-Nostalgia in Academia,
Campfire Conference
Curator
with
Tijn van de Wijdeven
Monitor Lizard House,
Bangkok, Thailand, 2020
Design Studio Semiar by Merve Bedir
speaker
Hong Kong University
Hong Kong, 2020
Tool For Architectre Desing Studio Seminar
speaker
with Patrick Donbeck
Architectural Association
London, UK. 2020
Keep School Real, Inda Parade 2020, Virtual Student Festival
coordinator and designer
with Patrick Donbeck
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Home Is Design Build
summer program instructor and coordinator
Year 4 Design Studio, sem ii , 2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Satellite Lab Research Workshop
research workshop leader
Space Saloon Online
Tipping Points
studio leader
Year 4 Design Studio, sem ii , 2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
You i i i i i and everything else
studio leader
Year 4 Design Studio, sem ii , 2021-2022
INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
