Justyna Profaska is an architect and PhD candidate in Landscape and Environment at La Sapienza University of Rome. Her thesis, Virtuality of Landscape, explores landscape as a social construct through the lens of Deleuze and Bergson’s virtuality, reinterpreted in contemporary artistic projects. By challenging architectural commodification and capitalist paradigms, her research integrates artistic methodologies to foster socially engaged practices.She holds an MSc in Architecture from Poznań University of Technology, with studies at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and La Sapienza. Her professional experience includes large-scale projects at Wenzel+Wenzel in Berlin and Studio Fuksas in Rome.During her PhD, she organised the panel Triggering the Change: Collective Action in the Landscape (2023) and spoke at Uncertain Landscapes in Guimarães. In 2024, she conducted archival research at the Getty Research Institute on Harald Szeemann.Her research aims to investigate artistic methodologies and apply them into architectural education, fostering a more reflective and inclusive approach to the discipline.
Critical review of studies on the representation of architecture and use of the image in science and art
