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Anna Ptak – PhD student in the Doctoral School of Humanities at the University of Warsaw working on a dissertation in cultural anthropology and ethnology. She researches energy transition, air pollution, and communities bordering lignite mines through the lens of environmental anthropology. She is also an art curator and artistic research collaborator. Selected projects: curating Amplifying Nature: Planetary Imagination of Architecture in the Anthropocene with Centrala (2018, 16th Venice Architecture Biennale), kurz/dust/ghobar (2015, CCA Ujazdowski Castle); dramaturgy: D. Kötter, Roden (2025, Radialsystem Berlin), landscapes and bodies – Water & Coltan, Oil Shale (2021, Kunstfest Weimar); editorial: The Make Yourself at Home Guide to Warsaw (2015, with R. Al Rajji and Monnik), Artists’ Initiatives, and Galleries (2014, with A. Pindera and W. Szczupacka).