Joanna Kusiak, a sociologist and urban activist. She is getting her doctorate at University of Warsaw and Darmstadt University of Technology (co-tutelle) about transformational chaos in Warsaw, taking into consideration space, ideology and politco-organisational issues. Scholar of Foundation for Polish Science (“START” program) and Polish-American Fulbright Commission. Researcher in Einstein Research Group at Humboldt University in Berlin. She is the co-author of book “Chasing Warsaw. Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change after 1990” (written with Monika Grubbauer).