Meeting at the Ecological Thought Club - Daniel Petryczkiewicz

The guest of KME will be Daniel Petryczkiewicz — writer, activist, photographer, passionate about small, wild and local things. Committed to the defense of local, often forgotten and taxonomically small significant nature that hardly anyone warns about. She publishes texts and photoreports on environmental issues in Critique Polityczna, Dwutygodnik, Magazine “Pismo”, IR2 and Dzikim Życie.

Subject: “The river must be thought of as a verb. On Water, Wildlife and Recovering Relationships with Nature

“We wonder who the river is: is it just water in motion? Or something, someone else? Where does the river end and where does it begin? Is the source visible to human eyes the true beginning of it? [...] It turns out that we should think of the river as a verb, not a noun. He is alive!” — Daniel Petryczkiewicz, interview with Katarzyna Przyborska, “Political Criticism”

Daniel Petryczkiewicz — a graduate of the first year of the School of Ecopoetics by Julia Fiedorczuk and Filip Springer at the Institute of Reportage in Warsaw. It cooperates and cooperates with numerous NGOs: Wetlands Conservation Center, Sisters of the River, Climate Alert, Our Beaver Association, Working for All Beavers or Forests and Citizens. Author of photographic exhibitions: Meandry 2015, #NoBeautyInPlastic 2019, Trees and People 2021, Mała, the river that regained its wildness 2024. In April 2026, his debut book Little History of Disappearance was published. The story of the river. Winner of the Election Readers' Stolk Award 2022 and the honorary badge of the Minister of Climate and Environment “For Merit for Environmental Protection and Climate”.

The conversation with the guest of KME will be led by: Prof. Piotr Skubała (Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia, ecologist, acarologist, environmental ethicist, environmental educator, activist for nature protection, climate activist) and Dr. Ryszard Kulik (Laboratory for All Beings, psychologist, environmental activist, trainer of psychological training, ecofosophist focused on deep ecology, author of books and articles on the relationship between man and nature). Contact with viewers on Facebook and YouTube: Barbara Wojtaszek (president of the Ecological Thought Club Foundation, Polish and English scholar, environmental educator, activist of the Silesian Climate Movement).

We invite you to ask questions to the guest.