Jacek Gadecki is a sociologist and socio-cultural anthropologist from the Department of Studies on Societyand Technology, and a professor at AGH University of Science and Technology. For many years, he has been researching how spaces, objectsand technologies shape our everyday lives. He is interested in everything that happens between the city and the home: architecture, meeting places, workshops, libraries, makerspaces and practices of collaborative creation. He leads research projects dedicated to the relationships between space, materiality and technology, and in his latest research he demonstrates that DIY is not only a way of making things, butalso of building bonds.