Iga Kołodyńska

Iga holds an MSc in Landscape Architecture from the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, where she currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Spatial Management. In 2018, she earned her PhD with a dissertation on methods for landscape identification and evaluation for spatial planning, funded by a National Science Centre (NCN) Preludium grant. She completed research stays in Germany (Zittau/Görlitz and Hanover) and Finland (Aalto University). She is the principal investigator of two NCN-funded projects, Sonata and Beethoven, which focus on the role of sound in landscape perception and on the relationship between sense of place and mobility in cross-border regions. In 2021, she received the START Fellowship from the Foundation for Polish Science, and in 2022 the Minister’s Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists. Her thinking on soundscapes goes beyond the simple “silence–noise” dichotomy and encourages deeper reflection on how sounds shape urban experience. Her research bridges socio-economic geography, spatial planning, and environmental psychology, contributing to experience-based spatial planning, with research interests centred on landscape perception, participatory approaches, and environmental governance.