Karol Drobniewski

[AI]identity

NCBR LIDER UP programme, phase I. 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.

Research

The image of the city as digital art

Small research grant, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Experiments with aesthetics, structure and algorithm: computer vision and generative techniques as a new way of picturing public space. January to December 2026.

Research

unLoc: human and machine creativity in architecture

NCN project led by dr Jacek Złoczewski. 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.

Research

Public spaces and façades of Nowy Port

With Prof. Monika Zawadzka, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Inventory of public spaces, photographic documentation and analysis of the district’s potential.

Research

Ungers, AI and the poetics of urban form

Own research, with the UAA Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft. 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.

Research

CRUNCH: climate-resilient urban nexus choices

NCN project led by dr Joanna Bach-Głowińska. 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.

Research

Retail structure of Gdynia city centre

Project led by dr Sławomir Ledwoń. Inventory of changing service functions, development of the SurSer app, urban analysis and recommendations.

Research

Akademia w mieście

Kwartalnik ASP Gdańsk no. 17 “Szkoła doktorska”: own work and an interview

Publication

Akademia w mieście

Kwartalnik ASP Gdańsk no. 14: the ZNTK Przeróbka concept, a pocket park in Gdynia and the Abrahama 34–35 tenement

Publication

Lokalność dużego miasta

ASP art and research catalogue no. 3: a drinking fountain design and a fence for GIWK water intakes

Publication

Solidarity is / as Conflict

SCAPE conference, Gdańsk, moderator and discussant. Keynote 1 with Prof. Sharon Todd (Maynooth University), European Solidarity Centre, 14–15 May 2026.

Talk

Architecture-Research-Science 26

Poznań and Wrocław Universities of Technology. [AI]identity: interpreting the identity of urban façades with algorithms, 25 April 2026.

Talk

SIGNATURES 2

Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdańsk, curatorial team and exhibitor. Doctoral students of three doctoral schools (Gdańsk, Kraków, Wrocław). Work shown: Gramatyka miasta. 17 May to 14 June 2026.

Exhibition

LE:NOTRE Landscape Forum

Instituto de Design de Guimarães, Portugal. Work shown: Gramatyka miasta, 6–9 May 2026.

Exhibition

smART 2026

Galeria Neon, Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Work shown: Ukryta gramatyka miasta, 27 March to 30 April 2026.

Exhibition

Ars Una Species Mille II

Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, main organiser and speaker. Obraz miasta 2.0: studying urban façades with AI, 27 November 2025.

Talk

Nowe Narracje Architektury

Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Algorithms of care: between machines, locality and regeneration, 6–7 November 2025.

Talk

Art.’em all!

Plenum, Gdańsk. Ungers, AI and the poetics of urban form, part II. July 2025.

Exhibition

SIGNATURES

Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdańsk, co-curator and exhibitor. International exhibition of young researchers and doctoral students; the Ungers experiment. April to May 2025.

Exhibition

4 Design Days

Katowice. Panel: energy, water, air. 23–24 January 2025.

Talk

Ars Una Species Mille I

Doctoral forum of art academies, Gdańsk. AI in architectural design on examples from my own practice. January 2025.

Talk

Planner’s Day

Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Łódź. Student workshops, 16 April 2024.

Talk

C-IDEA Design Award 2021

Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Adelaide. Miasta produktywne w ujęciu lokalnym. December 2022.

Exhibition

Art.’em all!

Ulica Elektryków / Plenum, Gdańsk. What the fuck? July 2021.

Exhibition

Main organiser, Ars Una Species Mille

National conference for young researchers and artists, ASP Gdańsk with the Academy of Music. Second edition on 27–28 November 2025; the first edition ran in January 2024 as the doctoral forum of art academies.

Role