is an urban planner, researcher, and policy adviser. He studied architecture, urbanism, sociology, and art theory, in Budapest and Paris, and worked on urban regeneration projects for the New York, Paris, Rome, Vienna, and Budapest municipalities. He is a founding member of the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre and Eutropian Research&Planning and a board member of the Wonderland Platform for European Architecture. He was a lecturer at the MoME, BUTE (Budapest), and TU Wien, as well as a visiting fellow at Columbia University (New York), OrangeLabs, and École d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais (Paris). Email: levente.polyak@kek.org.hu