Dr Krzysztof Nawratek

School of Architecture

Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Architecture

Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes (PGT)

Director of Space, Cultures and Politics research group

k.nawratek@sheffield.ac.uk

Arts Tower

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Dr Krzysztof Nawratek
School of Architecture
Arts Tower
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN

Profile: Before joining Sheffield School of Architecture, I was an Associate Professor in Architecture and MArch (RIBA Part 2) programme leader at the Plymouth University. I have worked as an architect and urban designer in Poland, Latvia and Ireland and as a researcher at the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), Maynooth, Ireland. My main research interest lays in urban theory in the context of post-secular philosophy, I am interested in the crisis of the contemporary (neoliberal) city model, radical inclusivity and urban re-industrialisation.

Qualifications: PhD in Architecture and Urban Planning

Research interests

My research interest lies in spatialized post-secular thought. In my work, I focus on non-dialectic modes of thinking. This investigation has two intertwined threads. The first is more theoretical (in a tradition of hermeneutic inquiry) investigation of radical contextualization, radical inclusivity and in general how The Absolute Other’s (‘das ganz Andere’ defined by Rudolf Otto) influences are actualized in space. The second is more empirical; it focuses on religious imaginations and religion-related behaviours in space. This more empirical perspective is then contextualised as a framework in order to decolonize Western (post)Christian urban and architectural discourses.

I am founder and coordinator of Postsecular Architecture Research Network.

Publications

Books

Kozlowski M, Mehan A & Nawratek K (2020) Kuala Lumpur Community, Infrastructure and Urban Inclusivity. Routledge. View this article in WRRO
Nawratek KJ (2018) Total Urban Mobilisation. Ernst Jünger and Post-capitalist City. Palgrave.
Nawratek K (2012) Holes in the Whole Introduction to the Urban Revolutions. Washington: Zero Books. View this article in WRRO
Nawratek K (2011) City as a Political Idea. Citizenship, Sovereignty and Politics. University of Plymouth Press.
Nawratek K (2005) Ideologie W Przestrzeni. Próby Demistyfikacji. Krakow: Universitas.

Edited books

Nawratek KJ (Ed.) (2015) Radical Inclusivity. Architecture and Urbanism. Barcelona: dpr-Barcelona. View this article in WRRO

Journal articles

Nawratek K, Mehan A & Tahar F (2022) Beyond Community: Inclusivity through Spatial Interventions. Writingplace.
Nawratek K & Mehan A (2020) De-colonising public spaces in Malaysia: dating in Kuala Lumpur. cultural geographies. View this article in WRRO
Yaghi A, Petrescu D & Nawratek K (2019) Performative interventions to re-claim, re-define and produce public space in different cultural and political contexts. Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research. View this article in WRRO
Nawratek KJ (2014) An urban partisan: Carl Schmitt's and Jacob Taubes’ guide for urban revolution. Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 38(1), 3-10. View this article in WRRO
Nawratek K (2012) New progressive architecture: Designing for cities in end times. Journal of European Popular Culture, 3(1), 77-88.
Nawratek K (2011) The internet: a potential factor in socio-spatial disintegration of Riga?. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning, 164(4), 233-239.
Nawratek K () HOW BRAVE CAN WE BE? THE CITY AS A POLITICAL EXPERIMENT. JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM, 38(1), 1-2.
Nawratek K () Urban Landscape and the Postsocialist City. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 14(3). View this article in WRRO
Nawratek K () Rudolf Otto’s ‘the Absolute Other’ and a radical postsecular urban contextualization. Planning Theory, 147309522091276-147309522091276. View this article in WRRO

Chapters

Nawratek KJ (2018) Architecture of radicalized postsecularism In Beaumont J (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Postsecularity (pp. 315-324). Routledge
Nawratek KJ (2017) ‘Der Arbeiter’: (Re) Industrialisation as Universalism? In Nawratek KJ (Ed.), Urban Re-industrialization Punctum Books View this article in WRRO
Nawratek K (2017) University as a Terminal: Socio-Material Infrastructure for Post-Neoliberal Society, The Future of University Education (pp. 145-156). Springer International Publishing View this article in WRRO
Nawratek KJ & Bus-Nawratek KI (2015) On the Frustrating Impossibility of Inclusive Architecture In Nawratek KJ (Ed.), Radical Inclusivity. Architecture and Urbanism (pp. 12-23). Barcelona: DPR-Barcelona. View this article in WRRO
Nawratek KJ (2013) Contemporary Capitalism and a Post-socialist city: the Bankruptcy of Neo-liberal Riga In Redbergs O (Ed.), Conditions for Contemporary Culture (pp. 129-136). Riga: Megaphone Publishers.
Nawratek KJ (2013) Territory, Autonomy and Provisional Revolution: How to Survive in 21st Century In Redbergs O (Ed.), Conditions for Contemporary Culture (pp. 91-95). Riga: Megaphone Publishers.
Nawratek KJ (2012) Producing citizens: from socialist to post-socialist urban opression In Miles M & Savage J (Ed.), Nutopia A Critical View of Future Cities (pp. 36-35). University of Plymouth Press
Nawratek KJ (2011) Rejecting the Communicative Paradigm of Public Space In Bader M, Baurhenn O, Szreder K, Voinea R & Koch K (Ed.), The KNOT. An Experiment on Collaborative Art in Public Urban Space (pp. 151-156). Berlin: Jovis.

Research group

Spaces, Cultures and Politics

Grants

MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS
Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
“RE-DWELL”. Delivering affordable and sustainable housing in Europe

Teaching interests: I am interested in design as an 'applied theory' and in theory of design process. I am interested in radically inclusive architecture and in design as a thinking process. I was practising as an architect and urban designer, in my teaching I invite students to contextualize their design and to focus on the way how the design change the existing power and social relationships.

Teaching activities

ARC6986 and ARC6987 (MAAD) Studio Leader
ARC6742 Power, Space, Society (PGT) module leader

Professional activities

I am an External examiner of MA in Architecture Design programme, The Leicester School of Architecture, De Monfort University, UK.

I am Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (HEA), member of Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) and member of The British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR).