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phot.credits: Crispijn van Saas
Justyna Chmielewska (1991) - a Polish landscape architect, based in Amsterdam. After 10 years of experience as a designer at leading Dutch landscape architecture offices (Karres en Brands, DS landschapsarchitecten), and graduating as a landscape architect from the  Amsterdam Academy of Architecture in 2021, she decided to pursue new path with landscape choreographies.

Landscape choreographies evolve around imagining futures which untame landscapes, By fostering caring and respectful relationships towards nature, we can learn to coexist, adapting to its rhythms and characteristics. In my work I look for social adaptations that give space to natural processes, helping communities adapt to the natural forces: flooding, rain or plant succession, By fostering caring relationships with landscapes, we learn to coexist. Can flooding landscapes be seen for their opportunity instead of a problem? Can we shift from dominance to mutual support? Can we, by seeing benefits in natural forcess, keep them from dissapearing? Using the lens of choreography allows for viewing landscapes as constantly transforming and temporary. Every project instead of being a final, fixed result, is a starting point and the rest is allowed to develop by its own according to unexpected character of nature itself. 
    
 

contact


Justyna Chmielewska
chmielewska.justyna.kinga@gmail.com
Obiplein 18 C 1094 RB Amsterdam


CV

Self initiated projects


Kunstloc Brabant Desgin Challenge
Rituals of Henriettewaard, 2024 

2nd prize SARP competition
2023 Floodplain park Goledzinow, Warsaw

SARP competition 
Revitalisation of historical square in Trzebiatow, 2022

Revitalisation of Park Slimak
Ilawa, Poland, 2024-now 

Feral Palace: Multispecies Design Challenge 
https://krater.si/en/projekti/palaca-divjine-odprti-poziv Soil procolos, 2022 

Graduation project
Choreographing resilience around a flooding Strzyza creek, 2019-2021 


Education


Master degree in Landscape Architecture
Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, 2016 - 2021 

Exchange: Master degree in Landscape Architecture
University of Copenhagen, 2014 - 2015 

Engineer, Bachelor degree in Landscape Architecture
Warsaw University of Life Sciences



Professional experience


Landscape Choreographies
Landscape Architect (self employed) 

Guest Teacher,  Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam
design courses P2A, P2B

DS Landschapsarchitecten
Landscape Architect, 2021-2024

Karres en Brands landscape architecture and urban planning
Junior designer, 2014-2021

Gardenphilia SP. Z O. O. 
painter (watercolours of plants)

Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden
gardener in a Center for Biological Diversity Conservation in Powsin


Prizes


Kunstloc Brabant, Design Challenge
Ondersteboven van Water in de Henriëttewaard
https://www.kunstlocbrabant.nl/kennis-inspiratie/samenwerken-met-de-natuur-van-doemscenario-tot-bitterbal-65294

1st prize Archiprix NL
graduation project Choreographing Reslience
https://www.archiprix.nl/national/?project=4372

2nd Prize, competition
Goledzinow Natural Flood Park, SARP Warsaw
https://konkurs-goledzinow.sarp.warszawa.pl/?page_id=28

The Feral Palace Open Call
Multispecies Design Challange 
https://koozarch.com/essays/the-feral-palace-education-as-a-design-urgency

Honorable mention: Ctrl+Space competition
competition for the Warszawianka Sports Park 
https://worldarchitecture.org/architecture-news/cgcce/ctrl-space-announced-warsaw-sports-park-competition-winners.html



Exhibitions & Publications



Eindhoven Dutch Design Week DDW
Kunstloc Brabant Design Challenge exhibition
https://ddw.nl/nl/programma/11646/expositie-design-challenge-henriettewaard

Eindhoven Dutch Design Week DDW
Archiprix Exhibiton

Archined interview
ttps://www.archined.nl/2023/10/choreographing-resilience-archiprix-2023/

Blauwe Kamer, special: graduation projects

Delta Strikes Back, Nine projects for El Haranea
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, P5 course
https://issuu.com/bouwkunst/docs/delta_strikes_back_web



co-choreographers (clients, collaborators, allies)



Krzysztof Popinski 
Magdalena Popinska 
DS landschapsarchitecten
Anna Zan 
Malgorzata Chmielewska 
Zuzana Jancovicova 
Elena Dobretsova 
Marieke Berkers 
Anna Fink 
Hyeisoo Kim 
Zipped Studio 
Trude Cone 
Jean Francois Gauthier 
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture
Clemens Karlhuber
Roy Damen 
Carolina Chateignier
Maurijn Rouwet
Simona Tothova
Jozef Olsavsky
Anna Torres
Karres en Brands
APA CAD architecture
interior and furtniture designer 
landscape architecture studio
architect and researcher 
animator, artist, photographer
landscape architect
landscape architect and scientist
architectural historian
landscape architect 
artist
animation and filmmaking 
dancer, choreographer, educator 
landscape architect
educational institution 
landscape architect, 
landscape architect at Damen Chataignier
architect at Damen Chataignier
architect, artist
architect, urban designer
architect, XUTOPIA
architect


https://annafink.eu

https://zippedstudio.nl
https://sylva.la/het-langste-park
https://ahk.nl

https://damenchataignier.com




https://www.studioannatorres.com
https://www.karresenbrands.com/en/