Dominika Belanská is an architect, placemaker, journalist and art educator. She has been involved in participatory city planning, public space revitalization and placemaking, and mediating on the issues of architecture and art to public in workshops, lectures, publishing and through curating. She has worked as editor of an architecture magazine in the Slovak Architects Society, as art educator at the Slovak National Gallery and as consultant for sustainable management of a market hall for City District Bratislava ? Nové Mesto. Through actions of civic initiatives, engagement in non-for-profit organization and in consultations for related projects, she promotes new strategies for resilient urban planning and public space policies in Slovak cities, based on a combination of interdisciplinary collaboration and stakeholder involvement. Her recent projects include the establishment of the first rooftop neighborhood garden in Slovakia, which invigorates social inclusion, community engagement and food security and reclaims a vacant urban space. Ms. Belanská holds an M.A. in architecture from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava with a thesis on participatory approach in architecture.