2025–now
FounderArchitektoniczna Inteligencja, GdańskWork
A research and artistic collective developing applications of AI to spatial problems in architecture, urbanism and spatial analysis: research, design experiment and implementation in one studio.
Current priority: the [AI]identity tool for analysing and designing in line with local urban identity.
2019–now
Urban designer and designerA2P2 architecture & planning, GdańskWork
Full-time since August 2019, design support in 2018–2019. Close to forty architectural, urban and landscape studies: concepts for post-industrial districts, briefs for cultural institutions (theatres, museums, archives), public spaces, parks and squares.
The work covers context analysis, programme assumptions, public consultation and coordination with specialist teams, for local governments and private investors. The full list is under research / urbanism.
2025–now
Teaching assistantAcademy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Faculty of ArchitectureWork
Architecture of Place (60 h) and Foundations of Urbanism (120 h) at BA level; earlier MA workshops on public space design in practice, from commission to realisation, and urban space analysis with QGIS. Doctoral teaching practice in the Urban Architecture and Public Space studios.
2022–2024
Research and teaching assistantUniversity of Łódź, Institute of the Built Environment and Spatial Policy, Faculty of Geographical SciencesWork
Full time, February 2022 to October 2024. Urban design I and II, safe space design, technical and planning drawing, spatial analysis methods (about 280 h a year), plus revitalisation and spatial policy at MA level. Led students through the professional competition for the New Centre of Hajnówka (honourable mention).
2024–nowDoctoral SchoolAcademy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, fine arts and conservationEducation
Research on the use of AI in interpreting architectural form and the identity of places. Positive mid-term evaluation.
2021–2024
MSc Spatial Management, Integrated Coastal Zone ManagementFaculty of Architecture, Gdańsk University of TechnologyEducation
Architecture and urbanism, final grade 5.0. Coastal and offshore design, seaports, sustainable urban strategies.
2019–2021MA Architecture of Cultural SpacesFaculty of Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts in GdańskEducation
Fine arts and conservation, final grade 6.0. Design in cultural landscapes, urban interiors and public space, landscape architecture, form and computer graphics.
2015–2019BEng Spatial Management, UrbanismFaculty of Architecture, Gdańsk University of TechnologyEducation
Architecture and urbanism, final grade 5.0.
2025–2026
Artificial intelligence and machine learningPostgraduate studies, WSB Merito, Faculty of Computer Science and New TechnologiesCourse
October 2025 to September 2026. Programming, data analysis, TensorFlow and Keras, neural networks.
2025–2026AI and business process automationPostgraduate studies, Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of ManagementCourse
February 2025 to March 2026, final grade 5.0. Python, machine learning, deep learning, process automation, running AI projects, computer vision, statistics.
2025
Global Summer School: Advanced Computation Design, Urban Data Analytics, Generative AI for ArchitectureInstitute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, BarcelonaCourse
Three programmes: an algorithmic building concept with clustering for form optimisation; a data workflow and interactive maps on ground floors in Barcelona’s Gràcia district; a proof-of-concept tool (Grasshopper and n8n) for generating and comparing architectural options against environmental criteria.
2025Startup School OneGdańsk University of Technology, acceleration programmeCourse
Business Model Canvas, Lean Startup, user research, prototyping, intellectual property, pitching.
2020
To Design Mathematical FormUniversidad de Navarra with the Academy of Fine Arts in GdańskCourse
Spatial form through computational design.
2026[AI]identityNCBR LIDER UP programme, phase IResearch
A tool for analysing, parameterising and generatively shaping urban fabric with computer vision, machine learning and generative methods. Selected for phase I among 600 entries, the only architectural project and the only one from an art academy. February to December 2026.
2026Miasto w działaniu: non-institutional cultural practices in Gdańsk districts, 2020–2025Instytut Kultury Miejskiej, programme “Ugory”, funded by the Ministry of CultureResearch
Documenting and mapping grassroots cultural initiatives outside public institutions, with a report, a catalogue and GIS maps. June to September 2026, with Aleksandra Paszki and Cyprian Lisewski.
2026AI and the generative reconstruction of street-wall fabricSmall research grant, Academy of Fine Arts in GdańskResearch
A generative tool for what-if experiments on façade rhythm, perforation, module width, height and ground floors, from a single façade to a fragment of the city.
2026The image of the city as digital artSmall research grant, Academy of Fine Arts in GdańskResearch
Experiments with aesthetics, structure and algorithm: computer vision and generative techniques as a new way of picturing public space. January to December 2026.
2025unLoc: human and machine creativity in architectureNCN project led by dr Jacek ZłoczewskiResearch
Participant. A design and artistic study using AI to redefine the housing architecture of power, on the Szpiegowo estate at Sobieskiego 100 in Warsaw. July to November 2025.
2025–nowPublic spaces and façades of Nowy PortWith Prof. Monika Zawadzka, Academy of Fine Arts in GdańskResearch
Inventory of public spaces, photographic documentation and analysis of the district’s potential.
2024–nowUngers, AI and the poetics of urban formOwn research, with the UAA Ungers Archiv für ArchitekturwissenschaftResearch
A large language model as co-author in interpreting the city, built on the triads of Ungers’s City Metaphors. Language model work, generative AI, audience research and exhibitions.
2020–2021CRUNCH: climate-resilient urban nexus choicesNCN project led by dr Joanna Bach-GłowińskaResearch
Design of a low-emission district in Gdańsk-Rębiechowo, district parameters for the IDSS system, graphic design and layout of the seven-volume Urban Ideas series, and the CRUNCH Time exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021.
2016Retail structure of Gdynia city centreProject led by dr Sławomir LedwońResearch
Inventory of changing service functions, development of the SurSer app, urban analysis and recommendations.
2026Machine Metaphors: Reimagining Ungers’s City Metaphors in the Age of AILeonardo, MIT Press, in reviewPublication
2026Akademia w mieścieKwartalnik ASP Gdańsk no. 17 “Szkoła doktorska”: own work and an interviewPublication
2025Ungers, AI i poetyka Formy MiastaSIGNATURES vol. 1 exhibition catalogue, on the method of the workPublication
2024Katalog kształtowania współczesnych zespołów zabudowy przemysłowo-logistycznejBook, ISBN 978-83-962832-2-1Publication
2024Pętla zamiast linii: życie po życiu budynkówGdynia Design Days 2024 catalogue, with Łukasz PancewiczPublication
2024Akademia w mieścieKwartalnik ASP Gdańsk no. 14: the ZNTK Przeróbka concept, a pocket park in Gdynia and the Abrahama 34–35 tenementPublication
2024Teatr Wybrzeże w GdańskuArchitektura MuratorPublication
2021Miasta produktywne w ujęciu lokalnymShort handbook on productive cities, ISBN 978-83-962832-0-7Publication
2021Co przed projektemCo-edited issue of Architektura & Biznes, pp. 46–71Publication
2021Lokalność dużego miastaASP art and research catalogue no. 3: a drinking fountain design and a fence for GIWK water intakesPublication
2021What the fuck?Magazyn Linia 6(2)/2021Publication
2020Urban Ideas, vol. V: masterplan of a low-emission districtASPRA; eds. J. Bach-Głowińska, D. Wojtowicz-Jankowska; main authors Karol Drobniewski, Paulina PałaszPublication
2020Źródła samokształcenia dla architektaZawód: Architekt, October 2020Publication
2020Design Workshop Studio: Design Mathematical Formed. Fernando Alonso, Campus UniversitarioPublication
2019Nowy wspaniały świat: alternatywna historia człowiekaRZUT no. 21 “Starość”Publication
2019See the city, see the water: reconstructing the wallMBA Kraków 2019, SARP KrakówPublication
2019Prawda: Świadkowie ArchitekturyRZUT no. 20 “Forma”Publication
2025Finalist, StageTwo BerlinRWTH Aachen University and HHL LeipzigAward
The [AI]identity concept. November 2025.
2025Finalist, ING Grant Programme, 7th editionING PolskaAward
The [AI]identity concept. June 2025.
2025Young Design Excellence Award 2025C-IDEA Design AwardAward
For the catalogue of contemporary logistics and industrial building forms. March 2025.
2023Main Prize of the Society of Polish Town PlannersTowarzystwo Urbanistów PolskichAward
Urban and architectural concept for the former ZNTK railway works in Gdańsk-Przeróbka. January 2023.
2022New Star Award 2021C-IDEA Design AwardAward
The ZNTK Przeróbka concept. August 2022.
2021Finalist, Urban Design Award 2019/2020Czech Technical University in PragueAward
Projekt.Odnowa: regeneration of Nowy Port and Letnica in Gdańsk.
20201st prize, national competition for the best works on urban and metropolitan topicsInstytut MetropolitalnyAward
Masterplan for Wyspa Ostrów in Gdańsk.
20203rd prize, American Corner library interiorWojewódzka i Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna, GdańskAward
20172nd prize and audience award, Zmieniamy AbrahamaMiasto WspólneAward
A woonerf for Gdynia.
2017–2021Rector’s scholarship for academic achievementFour consecutive yearsAward
2026Solidarity is / as ConflictSCAPE conference, Gdańsk, moderator and discussantTalk
Keynote 1 with Prof. Sharon Todd (Maynooth University), European Solidarity Centre, 14–15 May 2026.
2026Architecture-Research-Science 26Poznań and Wrocław Universities of TechnologyTalk
[AI]identity: interpreting the identity of urban façades with algorithms, 25 April 2026.
2026Data Analytics Meeting 2026GdańskTalk
Analysing urban façades with AI.
2026SIGNATURES 2Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdańsk, curatorial team and exhibitorExhibition
Doctoral students of three doctoral schools (Gdańsk, Kraków, Wrocław). Work shown: Gramatyka miasta. 17 May to 14 June 2026.
2026LE:NOTRE Landscape ForumInstituto de Design de Guimarães, PortugalExhibition
Work shown: Gramatyka miasta, 6–9 May 2026.
2026smART 2026Galeria Neon, Academy of Fine Arts in WrocławExhibition
Work shown: Ukryta gramatyka miasta, 27 March to 30 April 2026.
2025Ars Una Species Mille IIAcademy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, main organiser and speakerTalk
Obraz miasta 2.0: studying urban façades with AI, 27 November 2025.
2025Nowe Narracje ArchitekturyAcademy of Fine Arts in WarsawTalk
Algorithms of care: between machines, locality and regeneration, 6–7 November 2025.
2025Rethinking the Architecture of PowerArt Academy of Latvia, Riga, exhibition and symposiumExhibition
November 2025.
2025Guest lecture: what are productive cities?Gdańsk University of TechnologyTalk
8 October 2025.
2025Art.’em all!Plenum, GdańskExhibition
Ungers, AI and the poetics of urban form, part II. July 2025.
202512th Forum of Participation PractitionersŁódźTalk
Consult before, create during or argue after? Participation in urban space, 15–16 May 2025.
2025SIGNATURESZbrojownia Sztuki, Gdańsk, co-curator and exhibitorExhibition
International exhibition of young researchers and doctoral students; the Ungers experiment. April to May 2025.
20254 Design DaysKatowiceTalk
Panel: energy, water, air. 23–24 January 2025.
2025Ars Una Species Mille IDoctoral forum of art academies, GdańskTalk
AI in architectural design on examples from my own practice. January 2025.
2024APK na mieście: Aioli inspired by GdańskGdańskExhibition
What the fuck? The ZNTK concept. October to November 2024.
2024Arte_Archi_KulturaStara Kotłownia, OlsztynExhibition
What the fuck? March 2024.
2024Planner’s DayFaculty of Geographical Sciences, University of ŁódźTalk
Student workshops, 16 April 2024.
2023Zieleń i woda: projects for GdańskGdańskTalk
Study for greening the western front of Śródmieście, 6 March 2023.
2023Architecture students of ASP GdańskWielka Zbrojownia, GdańskExhibition
The ZNTK Przeróbka concept. March 2023.
2022C-IDEA Design Award 2021Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, AdelaideExhibition
Miasta produktywne w ujęciu lokalnym. December 2022.
2022Small towns: space, society, economyŁódźTalk
Assessing EU-funded urban projects in small towns, 28 October 2022.
2021Krajobraz / metamorfozy wyobraźniCentrum Sztuki Galeria EL, ElblągExhibition
Miasta produktywne and What the fuck? January to February 2021.
2021Nowy Port. Zdjęcia MiaryMEWKA gallery, Open House GdańskExhibition
Research results. May 2021.
2021Art.’em all!Ulica Elektryków / Plenum, GdańskExhibition
What the fuck? July 2021.
2020Natural Heritage Index MuseumGaleria Kiedyś To Będzie, WarsawExhibition
January 2020.
Tools
- Python, TensorFlow and Keras, computer vision
- QGIS and urban data analysis
- Grasshopper and generative workflows
- React / JSX, Node.js, document automation
Contact
- Gdańsk, Poland
- karol.drobniewski@asp.gda.pl
- facebook.com/drobniewski