Maciej Bilski

About Me

The tutoring process, coaching, and a partnership-based form of relationship are areas that are particularly close to me and that align with my vision of an academic community grounded in dialogue, trust, and mutual development. I have been working at the Faculty of Architecture relatively recently; however, for over 20 years I have run my own company with a dynamically evolving business profile. This experience has enabled me to develop practical competencies in effective project management, teamwork, and flexible responses to dynamically changing needs, contexts, and challenges.

My many years of professional practice outside academia strongly influence my approach to working with students—an approach focused on real decision-making processes, responsibility, self-organization, and the conscious shaping of professional and personal development paths. I strive to combine an academic perspective with business and project-based experience, supporting students not only in developing their technical skills, but also in understanding their role as future architects and designers operating within a complex social, technological, and economic environment.

My areas of interest include architecture, psychology, and issues related to artificial intelligence and its impact on the design process and ways of thinking about space. Privately, I am a ski and kitesurfing instructor, as well as an ultralight aircraft pilot. I treat these activities as an important means of cultivating responsibility, concentration, risk management, and conscious decision-making.

Scope of Tutoring

In my tutoring practice, I focus primarily on developmental tutoring, understood as a long-term process of accompanying the tutee in discovering and consciously shaping their own potential. I perceive tutoring not as a hierarchical relationship, but as a partnership-based dialogue built on regular reflection, attentiveness, and the active engagement of both parties.

Within tutoring, I can support prospective tutees particularly in the following areas:

• Thinking beyond established patterns – developing creative courage, a critical approach to conventional solutions, and the search for unconventional design and life strategies.
• A visionary approach to challenges – working with imagination, formulating long-term goals, and building a personal vision of development in the context of a changing architectural, technological, and social reality.
• Time and energy management – planning activities, setting priorities, and combining creative work with the effective organization of everyday academic and extracurricular responsibilities.
• Conscious development of personal and professional competencies – identifying strengths and areas for growth, and working toward coherence between values, decisions, and actions.
• Functioning within teamwork – understanding roles within a project group, communication, responsibility, and managing the creative process.
• Building an individual career path – both in an academic context and in professional practice, including interdisciplinary, business, and project-based experiences.

It is important to me to create a space in which the tutee can safely ask questions, test ideas, make mistakes, and draw conclusions from them. I treat tutoring as a process that supports the development of independence, responsibility, and awareness of one’s own choices—competencies that are crucial both in architecture and in professional and personal life.

The tutoring process can be conducted in Polish or English.

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