Civil City Lab aims to investigate the consequences of technological development in the context of urban life. We want to understand how digitization and new technologies can shape the quality of life of city users, influence cities development and urban policies. We are particularly interested in how technology can influence the implementation of the principles of democracy, equality and social justice in cities. Based on existing sociological and psychological theories – including the recent concept of “digital right to the city” – we want to answer the question about the impact of technological innovations on the well- being of urban dwellers, social cohesion and the quality of local democracy, understood as the ability of citizens to articulate their interests and participate in making decisions about the direction of city development. ISS Director. Assistant Professor. Social researcher with 20 years of experience, head of the Civil City Lab, specializing in Civil society, social movements, urban movements, urban sociology, gender sociology, sociology of science and education E-mail: anna.domaradzka@uw.edu.pl Psychologist working at the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Member of International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) Urban health, wellbeing, urban nature, mental health, positive pschology E-mail: edomaradzka@psych.pan.pl Assistant professor at Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Science, University of Warsaw and public sector consultant with more than 10 years of experience in providing executive-level insights based on mixed-methods research. Interested in social policy, urban governance and digital transformations in public administration. Member of ISTR – International Society for Third Sector Research Social policy, social work, welfare state, economic sociology, SMART city, urban governance, E-mail: m.trochymiak@uw.edu.pl PhD student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences in the field of sociology. A member of Członek zespołu Civil City Lab neurodiversity, right to the city, citizen science, social participation, impact E-mail: n.wroblewska4@uw.edu.pl Adiunkt / Assistant Professor Członek Ośrodka Badań Układów Złożonych i Nowych Technologii. Ability to produce random series, randomness, complex systems, social influence, dynamic of social interactions, computational social science, individual differences, Nature-Based Solutions, Blue-Green Solutions, green gentrification, right to the healthy city, Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science E-mail: m.biesaga@uw.edu.pl Research Assistant at Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Science, University of Warsaw. Anthropologist and sociologist. Teacher and youth coach with over twelve years of experience in education. Research interests include civil society, youth culture, childhood studies, leisure studies and urban sociology. Civil Society, Youth Culture, Childhood Studies, Leisure Studies, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Education E-mail: agata.zbikowska@uw.edu.pl Zastępca Dyrektora ISS / ISS Deputy Director Assistant Professor Member of the Social Challenges Unit Warsaw. Her research focuses on issues of E-mail: m.roszczynska@uw.edu.pl Head of the Centre for Psychological Research I am a Social Psychologist and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, University of social and political psychology, intergroup relations, urban studies, and new technologies (especially, AI and human – robot interaction) E-mail: anna.wnuk@psych.uw.edu.pl
is an interdisciplinary research team working within ISS and carrying out research for the co-creation of better, democratic and wisely managed cities.
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intersectional and international comparative research in the areas of civil society and
social movements, urban sociology, gender studies, and digital sociology. She led or co-
led several international projects concerning urban cohesion, civil society, social
entrepreneurship and welfare state issues, as well as gender and social equality in public
and private sphere. Since 2020 she is UNESCO Chair in Women, Society and
Development at University of Warsaw.RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include positive psychology, mental health,
urban health, emotions and emotion regulation, and the influence of natural and urban
environments on well-being.
She cooperates with the Civil City Lab. She is the Principal Investigator in her own research project
“Contact with nature and wellbeing: the role of nature connectedness, emotion regulation, and
season of the year”, funded by the Polish National Science Center, and participated in several
other projects. She teaches PhD students at IPPAS and the Graduate School for Social Research
(GSSR).
She was a visiting researcher at City, University of London (UK), she (co-)authored numerous
publications and conference presentations, and is a reviewer for several scientific journals.RESEARCH INTERESTS
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ZAINTERESOWANIA BADAWCZE
public policy digitalization 
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the Civil City Lab team, where she works on qualitative research on urban livability, civic
activity, and urban policy. Interested in neurodiversity studies, urban sociology, and social
participation.RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Member of the Center for Complex Systems and New Technologies and the Global Systems Center at ISS.
Członek Civil City LabRESEARCH INTERESTS
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sustainable social development, trust, citizen science, psychological foundations of behavior,
the impact of new technologies on individuals and communities, the psychological basis of
local community self-organization, mechanisms of cooperation, and the social significance of
cultural heritage. She is the principal investigator of several international and
interdisciplinary research projects and has over twenty years of research experience.
Actively engaged in her local community, she has recently served as a member of district
council. POSITION:
Member of the Civil City Lab
Warsaw, where I lead the Social and Clinical Psychology Lab (SoCLab UW). In addition to
my training in psychology, I hold an MA in Cultural Studies from Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznan, Poland. I earned my PhD with honors from the Faculty of Psychology
at the University of Warsaw, with research conducted in Jerusalem on the consequences of
collective memory for present intergroup attitudes.
I was a predoctoral fellow at the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic
Relations at the University of Utrecht. Additionally, I have served as Principal Investigator in
three projects funded by the Polish National Science Centre. My primary research interests lie
in social and environmental psychology, intergroup relations, urban studies, and climate
change issues. I also explore the intersection of social and clinical psychology, focusing on
the interaction between social and intrapsychic processes.RESEARCH INTERESTS
Civil City Lab
About Civil City LabTeam
Anna Domaradzka-Widła
Ewa Domaradzka
Mateusz Trochymiak
Nina Wróblewska
Mikołaj Biesaga
Agata Żbikowska
Dr Magdalena Roszczyńska-Kurasińska
Anna Wnuk