2023-now. Opportunities and threats for European peripheral rural landscapes in the context of urban-rural linkages, climate change, and demographic changes  (leader: Bartłomiej Buława, team: Ignacio Fernandez Torres, Judyta Maciejczyk, students: Aneta Kozińska-Kasparek, Michał Jagiełło, students’ groups).

At the Academy of Silesia, Faculty of Architecture, we lead research&design-oriented courses: "Regional design" and "Landscape and cultural heritage of the region” focused on possible concepts for rural landscape regeneration and development in the context of progressing rural depopulation. The research problem concerns protecting and developing rural landscapes affected by depopulation, including their spatial structures, architecture, and natural values, to develop concepts for their revitalisation and rehabilitation, and to identify the factors that have the greatest impact on this. Qualitative and quantitative spatial, economic, and social parameters and trends related to rural spatial structures, landscapes, and architecture were investigated. In practice, we have analysed cases - regional cross-sections of approximately 100 km that represent urban-rural linkages located in different European locations (Spain, Andalusia; Poland; Czech Republic; Slovakia; Austria).

Papers:
·     Buława B., Jagiełło M., Kozińska-Kasparek A., Torres I.F. (2024) Landscape and digital nomads: The case of Valverde de Burguillos in Spain, Architectus, DOI: 10.37190/arc240312
·     UN-HABITAT Team, Buława B. (one of the contributors) (2023) Recovering territorial balance by strengthening urban-rural linkages – Final Report, UN-HABITAT, Madrid, Spain, static/file/Final-Report-EGM-Merida.pdf