Tatiana Bodnar
PhD student exploring creative urban regeneration
ABOUT
Tatiana holds a Master’s in Sustainable Urban Planning Design from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and is passionate about is about co-creating and researching urban spaces.
Originally from the US, she studied in Washington D.C., Vienna, and Stockholm, and is now based in Swansea, Wales at Swansea University where she has started her PhD in 2023 for the ESRC studentship research project, “Urban Acupuncture in South Wales: Pinprick Solutions for Urban Regeneration?”
EXPERIENCE
Fluke
Co-founder
Co-founder of the urban collective Fluke with a focus on playful co-design of urban space
Glad Stad
Placemaking Project Manager
Managed Hornstulls Marknad, Stockholm’s biggest weekly public market consisting of over 30 – 40 street food vendors, crafters, second-hand and other local vendors from 2022- 2023.
The Urban Institute
Housing Finance Research Centre Intern
Spearheaded project to automate data cleaning and plotting process in R for the Housing Finance at a Glance: Monthly Chartbooks
SPEAKING
OsloMet Urban Research Conference: Urban crises
presented master’s thesis ‘Playing with the Possible’ in the section Citizen Participation in the Post-Political Era
Oslo, Norway, 2021
Urban Forum: Practice Meets Academia
presenting Fluke on a session regarding Time in Design during Urban Forum, a collaboration between SLU Urban Futures and Urban Arena at Lund University
Uppsala, Sweden, 2021
Participatory LAB Conference 2021
Playing with the Possible
Online, 2021
Swanning Around 