MEET MY SMART PEOPLE

Piotr Jarosz

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East London based bookbinder who started I MAKE BOOKS in 2018 as a project filling the gaps between artistry, craftsmanship, design and publishing. Piotr specialises in producing high quality photography portfolios, print boxes and small edition art books.
In 2020 he set up MADE EDITIONS - an art publishing house. His first book “Thoughts of Feelings” by a German artist Eric Schwarz has been longlisted in World Illustration Awards 2021 in Alternative Publishing category.

Joanna Murzyn

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Regenerative ICT consultant and post-growth advocate, Joanna prototypes  solutions and support initiatives that radically transform technology’s role in our society.

Michelle Tylicki

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An artist and activist based between the UK and Portugal. Her work promotes climate justice, animal rights, food sovereignty, racial justice, disability rights, ending blasphemy laws, sex workers' rights, and reshaping the world as an anarchist utopia. She often takes part in creative direct action on the frontlines of these activist movements. In her art, Tylicki creates subversive graphic design to critique advertising (subvertising), utopian illustration for grassroots collectives, and short films about creative direct actions. She also explores physical theatre, producing and directing a climate clown wrestling troupe, and installation work, like the antifascist catapult and fridge full of 'humanely slaughtered' human meat. She lectures subvertising history and skill shares DIY aspects of ad-hacking.

Damian Kocur

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Polish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 2020, he graduated from the Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia in Katowice. In the meantime, he directed not only student films but also documentaries (21 Days, 2014) and short narrative films (1410, 2018; My Heart, 2019; Beyond Is the Day, 2020).
He gained recognition with his critically acclaimed feature-length debut, Bread and Salt (2022), which addresses the escalation of violence against immigrants in a provincial town due to the inaction of the main characters. His next film, Under the Volcano (2024), focuses on Ukrainians who, due to Russia's aggression against Ukraine, lost the ability to return home from their vacation. The film was submitted for consideration in the Best International Feature Film category at the Oscars.

David Potocnik

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Maciej Piasecki

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Maciej documents civil protests and violations of rights by the authorities. He exposed illegal actions by law enforcement and contributed to the acquittal of wrongfully accused individuals.