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Dr Anna Długozima

Department of Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS-SGGW)

Landscape architect and urban planner; the author of the book Cmentarze jako ogrody żywych i umarłych [Cemeteries as gardens of the living and the dead]; the co-author of the book Death and Funeral Practices in Poland. Research interests include funeral landscapes, cemeteries as therapeutic spaces, and the design of cemeteries integrated with local landscapes. The principal investigator of the NCN Poland grant ‘Planning cemeteries in the existing urban and rural structures in Poland, seen from the spatial order aspect, against the background of the contemporary sepulchral space’ (no. 2016/23/D/HS4/03043). The leader of the project: ‘Inventory, analysis and valorization of the disused forest Lutheran cemeteries’, and co-investigator of the international research projects: ‘Rasos Cemetery. Historical, linguistic, and inventory studies’ and ‘Ideological dimensions of the cultural landscape. The semantics of the family cemeteries of East Prussia in the light of literary and non-literary sources from the 19th to the middle of the 20th century’.

 

Długozima, A., Kosiacka-Beck, E. & Krzykawska, K. (2024) ‘Multiuse cemetery paradigm: cemetery as a multifunctional place of social significance – reshaping a cemetery in the urban space of Eastern Europe’, Cities, 156, 105556.

Długozima, A, (2022) ‘How to find a suitable location for a cemetery? Application of multi-criteria evaluation for identifying potential sites for cemeteries in Białystok, Poland’, Moravian Geographical Reports, 30:1, 34-53.

Długozima, A.  (2020) ‘How might landscapes be better designed to accommodate increasing cremation practices in Europe?’, Landscape Online, 87: 1-31.

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