Alicja Wójcik

Brussels

Alicja Wójcik was born and raised in Warsaw and she is currently a second-year student at the Master Urban Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Université Libre de Bruxelles. After graduating from a Liberal Arts and Sciences bachelor’s programme at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam where she majored in Political Philosophy and Critical Theory, she found herself gradually more and more interested in cities, especially from the social and environmental angle. Since then, she worked in a Polish NGO concerned with civil rights in cities, in the UN-Habitat and in the Community Land Trust Brussels to research possibilities of providing housing solutions for the homeless in Brussels. She is currently learning about sustainable urban design and her ambition is to work on transforming the already existing green spaces of cities to serve biodiversity and climate mitigation. She wants to experience living in different cities, but wherever she finds herself, she engages in organisations and actions that counter urban neoliberalisation. Her ultimate goal, wherever she would end up, is to help build ZOEpolis; a city for both humans and non-humans where the environmental philosophy of Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour could take a spatial form.