Press Kit
Every thing you need for advertising, publications or introduce Honorata at an event. On this page you will find a selection of pictures and a variety of bios.
Press photos for download
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Bios
Urban Masterplanner, Architect and Researcher
Founder Urbanitarian – Urban Database
Spatial Equity – Arch and Urb
Co-founder JUSThood – Participatory Futures
IAAC MAEBB Faculty Member
Really Short Bio
Urban Masterplanner, Architect and Researcher, Equity & Social Value Spatial Designer. She empowers new and diverse voices and challenges the way we understand, design and develop our cities. She leads international teams, designing self-sufficient neighborhoods and new cities across Asia and Europe. Founder of URBANITARIAN – the world’s leading comprehensive data platform and archive for urban design projects. Co-founder of the ARCHITECTresses Foundation – an agency for gender-smart spatial innovation, and JUSThood.city – an innovative community-based method to empower inhabitants in envisioning their future equitable neighbourhoods. She lectures at IAAC in Barcelona, SISD in Shenzhen, and Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Short Bio
Urban Masterplanner, Architect, Researcher, and Equity & Social Value Spatial Designer. Honorata leads and manages multidisciplinary, international teams to design self-sufficient neighborhoods and new cities across Asia and Europe. She is the founder of URBANITARIAN – the world’s leading comprehensive data platform and archive for urban planning projects. She is also the co-founder of the ARCHITECTresses Foundation, an agency for gender-smart innovation, and JUSThood.city, a pioneering community-based method empowering residents to envision and shape equitable neighborhoods.
Honorata lectures at leading institutions, including Thunderbird Global School of Management, IAAC in Barcelona and SISD in Shenzhen. Her work, known for bridging research and practice, has been widely published in specialized media and international books such as Barcelona Plans and Projects.
She is recognized for advancing urbanism that prioritizes inclusion, empowering new and diverse voices, and challenging the way we understand, design, and develop our cities.
She regularly speaks at global conferences, collaborates with governments, NGOs, and the private sector, and mentors the next generation of urban innovators.
Really Long Bio
Honorata Grzesikowska is an Urban Masterplanner, Architect, Researcher, and Equity & Social Value Spatial Designer. For over 20 years, she has been leading multidisciplinary and international teams in shaping self-sufficient neighborhoods and new cities across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Her work bridges strategic planning with human-centered design, focusing on the intersection of form, policy, and everyday life.
She is the founder of URBANITARIAN, the world’s leading data platform and archive for urban planning projects. The initiative curates and analyzes hundreds of large-scale developments worldwide, providing a unique resource for urban professionals, governments, and academia to rethink the future of city-making through transparency and shared knowledge.
Honorata is also the co-founder of the ARCHITECTresses Foundation, an agency for gender-smart innovation in the built environment, and JUSThood.city, a pioneering community-based tool that empowers residents to visualize and co-create equitable neighborhoods. Together, these ventures reflect her commitment to systemic change and inclusive methodologies in spatial design.
As a lecturer, she contributes to leading institutions including Thunderbird Global School of Management, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) in Barcelona, and SISD in Shenzhen. Her teaching emphasizes the social dimension of urbanism and the integration of data, design, and governance.
Her research and practice have been featured in international publications and books, including Barcelona Plans and Projects, and her voice continues to shape global conversations on sustainable and just urban development.
Honorata frequently speaks at global conferences, collaborates with governments, NGOs, and private organizations, and mentors emerging leaders in city design. Recognized for advancing an inclusive and critical urbanism, she challenges conventional planning paradigms and redefines how cities are understood, designed, and experienced.
