We present the leaders of the teams participating in the CONVIVIUM project, responsible for the implementation of the project tasks. In several episodes, we will present people from different countries, scientific centers and cultural institutions who share a common passion for food, healthy nutrition, social integration, cultural heritage, art, architecture, nature in urban space, local activities and intercultural exchange – in other words, everything that the CONVIVIUM.NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS SOLUTIONS IN FOOD, LIVING HERITAGE, AND CONVIVIALITY project involves.

Meet Irena Chawrilska from the University of Gdańsk.

Irena is a director of the Academic Center for Polish Language and Culture at the University of Gdansk, coordinator of the More-than-Human Studies Lab at the UG Center for Sustainable Development; Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Polish Studies at the UG; visiting scholar at Utrecht University (2023), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (2025), visiting professor at the University of Toronto (2023–2024); author of books: Hybrids and hybridity: from the borderland of literature and visual arts (2020), Polish for sustainability? Polish culture and global challenges (2022), LOST in Gdansk! Polish culture in the age of uncertainty (2023). In years 2021-2024 coordinator of the  Culture fof Sustainable Development Programme at the Centre for Sustainable Development at UG.

Her research interests focus on: environmental humanities, philosophy of the land, in particular wetlands and swamplife, polish foodscapes, literature and art in teaching Polish as a foreign language, migration experience in the process of education, the phenomenon of hybridity in culture, experimental literature, and the reception of Bruno Schulz’s works in the world.

Video by Diego Vilas Boas