Predan Barbara
Dr Barbara Predan is an assistant professor, theoretician, researcher, designer and author. She received a bachelor’s degree in industrial design, and then a master’s degree in the theory and development of design from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana. In 2012, she received her doctoral degree from the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts and the University of Nova Gorica.
Predan is the co-author of the books Back to Design: An Anthological Survey of the Theory of Design in Slovenia (2007) and Sustainable Alternatives in Design: It’s High Time We Start Losing Time (2009). She is the (co-)author (or editor) of the books and exhibitions Iskra: Non-Aligned Design 1946–1990 (2009), Niko Kralj: The Unknown Famous Designer (2011), Design education: what do you see? What do you think about it? What do you make of it? – 30 years of design at ALUO (2015), Design as the Capacity for Change: Slovenia Design Showroom Milano (2017), Death in Design (2017), Thinking the Conditions of Our Time (2019); Papiro-logía: circular design and the use of paper in interior design (2019), The Questions Raised by Design (2020); and is the author of the exhibitions Gorenje with Vision (2012), Wood25 (2016–19); and is the co-author of the exhibitions Past Future Perfect (2014–15), Marx After Marx: Kunst-Marx (2019). Since 2010, with Petra Černe Oven, she has been co-editing Zbirka 42, a series of books on design, under the auspices of the Pekinpah Association. She has also participated as author or editor in the following seven volumes: Service and Information Design: Examples of Good Practice (2010), The Utopian Seminar (2011), Designing an Agenda, or, How to Avoid Solving Problems That Aren’t (2013), The Public Sector: Agent of Progress? (2015), R. Buckminster Fuller: The Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (2016), Death in Design (2017, 2020), and Edvard Ravnikar: Design (2017).
Predan has published professional and scholarly articles in Design Issues, Design Principles and Practices, The international journal of design in society, Filozofski vestnik, Dialogi, ČKZ, 2+3D, Oris, and Piranesi, among others. In 2014, she and Petra Černe Oven contributed the chapter “Information design as a (r)evolutionary educational tool” to the Routledge’s Information Design: Research and Practice edited by Alison Black, Paul Luna, Ole Lund, Sue Walker. She prepared the texts for the scientific monograph Information design: research and practice (Routledge, New York 2017) together with Dr. Petra Černe Oven. In 2019–2020, together with Tevfik Balcıoğlu and at the invitation of the organisers, she co-edited and co-chaired the section entitled “Politics and Design: Past, Present, Future” at the international conference International Committee for Design History and Design Studies (ICDHS 12) in Zagreb, October 2020. Received an invitation together with Dr. Petra Černe Oven to prepare a chapter on the history of Slovene design for the period 1945–2000 for Victor Margolin and Bloomsbury Press. The chapter will be prepared for the book World History of Design, Volume III (Bloomsbury Press).
As an assistant professor, she teaches Development and Theory of Design and the elective course Service Design at the Department of Industrial and Unique Design of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana.
Predan is a co-founder and leader of the department of design theory at the Pekinpah Association, and, since 2014, the director of the Institute of Design, an academic research organisation. She teaches a course in the history and theory of design and an elective subject in service design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana. Under the auspices of various institutions and events in Slovenia, Černe Oven and Predan have hosted over thirty world-renowned experts in the field of design. She regularly lectures at international academic and professional conferences, and, with Černe Oven, leads a number of Slovenian and international workshops in the field of service and information design.
Awards:
2020 – Design Principles & Practices International Award for Excellence: Award Winner for Volume 13
2019 – AIAP WOMEN IN DESIGN AWARD 2019, nomination in category: “PhD, Researchers and Teachers” (with Dr. Petra Černe Oven)
2018 – Recognition of the University of Ljubljana for special achievements and participation in the field of extracurricular activities
2017 – Award of the Slovenian Designers’ Association: Design excellence of the quarter in the field of “design theory and critique and professional journalism” (together with Dr. Petra Černe Oven)
2017 – Brumen Foundation Award in the category: information design, 6th Biennial of Visual Messages of Slovenia, National Gallery, Ljubljana (several co-authors)
2013 – Praise of the quarter of the Association of Designers of Slovenia – for a theoretical contribution to design (together with Dr. Petra Černe Oven)
2013 – Brumen Foundation Award in the category: web and mobile applications, 6th Biennial of Visual Messages of Slovenia, National Gallery, Ljubljana (several co-authors)
2012 – Award of the Slovenian Designers’ Association: Design excellence of the quarter in the field of “design theory and critique and professional journalism” (together with Dr. Petra Černe Oven)
Professional experience:
University of Ljubljana, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme in the Arts
2019–present: President of the Program Committee
University of Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Arts and Design
2020–2023: Head of research project “Models and Practices of Global Cultural Exchange and Non-aligned Movement. Research in the Spatio-Temporal Cultural Dynamics”
2019-2020: Head of Industrial Design and Applied Arts Department
2017–present: Employed as Assistant Professor
2009–2017: Guest/Visiting Lecturer
Hyphen’s Editorial Board
2019–present: Editorial Board Member
Brumen Foundation
2018–present: Board Member
2005-2010: Project Manager
CODEC: international design network
2016 – present: Co-founder and board member
Design for Europe
2015–2016: Slovenian Ambassador
Scientific journal The Design Journal, Bloomsbury Publishing, London (UK)
2015 – present: Editorial Manager
Institute of Design, Ljubljana (an academic research organisation)
2014–present: Co-founder and Director
Cankarjev dom, Culture and Congress Centre
2013-2019: Board Member
Zbirka 42 (Collection 42 – a series of books on design)
2010–present: Co-editor
Pekinpah Association (cultural, publishing and production association)
2013–present: Head of Design Theory Section
2007–2013: Head of Pekinpah Association
Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean
2007-2018: Expert Committee Member
Biennial of Industrial Design – BIO
2006-2010: Expert Committee Member
Freelancer
2000–2017: Theoretician, Critic, Curator, Designer, Educator
Kamnik Andrej
Education:
- 2006 – completed master studies at UL ALUO
- 2003 – completed bachelor studies at UL ALUO
Professional experience and collaborations:
Works in the field of painting, intermedia art (interactive architecture), video and animation
- 2018–: full-time employee as an assistant in the Department of Painting, Video and New Media major study courses at UL ALUO; lecturer in the fields of illustration and animation
- 2010–2018: external lecturer at the Institute and Academy of Multimedia (IAM), in the field of video graphics and animation
- 2015–2018: external lecturer at the Faculty of Design (associate member of the University of Primorska), subject Video in Design and subject Drawing and Painting Producer and television creative video graphics production in the company Pro plus
- 2003–: author of a number of animated commercials, music videos, telops, television video graphic corporate images and film promotional videos
Exhibitions (selection):
- Out of the loop, (exhibition of Zora Stančič), co-author of the video graphical animation, Monfort Gallery 2020.
- Sekvence narave (Nature’s Sequences), (Exhibition Monochrome Architects), co-author of the video editing and posting video projection (City Museum Ljubljana 2018).
- Kiparstvo danes, perfomativna telesa in okolja (Sculpture today, performative bodies and environments). (Center of Contemporary Arts, Celje 2013). Koda (pred) podobe (Code of the (pre)image), Miklova hiša (Ribnica 2010).
- Tehnologije v likovni umetnosti (Technologies in fine arts) (Gallery Velenje 2009).
- Artcircolo project – Overturest: Kulturraume im postfossilen zeitalter, exhibition and presentation of the project Wind Code Image (Gallery Glockenbachwerkstatt, Muenchen, Germany 2009).
- Arzenal depo 2K9 – Sodobna raziskovalna umetnost 80 let po Delaku (Contemporary research art 80 years after Delak) (studio Viba film, Ljubljana 2009).
- Načrt, Umestitev, Podoba (Plan, Placing, Image) (Bežigrajska galerija 2, Ljubljana 2008). Incorporation of image, (exhibition in presentation in the gallery Berlaymont, Brussels, Belgium 2008).
- Wind Code image, (Gallery Kapelica, Ljubljana 2008). Wind Code Image, Ars electronica – Ecology of techno mind (Kunstmuseum Lentos, Linz, Austria 2008).
- Flow 5.0 – Wind model, (Gallery Kapelica, Ljubljana 2007). Image incorporation (Flow 5.0), U3 – 5. trienale sodobne slovenske umetnosti. (Modern Gallery, Ljubljana 2006/2007). Project of undergraduate students of ALUO “Observatory” VV2 – 50. Internatonal Biennale in Venice (IUAV, University in Venice, Italy 2003).
- Animation Projects (selection): Out of the loop, (exhibition of Zora Stančič), co-author of the video graphical animation, Monfort Gallery 2020.
- Baal, (Andrej Rozman Roza, Slovene Youth Theatre, director: Vito Taufer). Video graphic animations for the play, conceptualised by Zora Stančič, 2019.
- V pomladi slovenskega knjižnega jezika, animated video graphic and mapping projection (Peterokotni stolp, Ljubljanski grad 2017).
- The Magic Flute, animated video graphic and animation for video background of the operetta. Production: Hiša kulture Celje, diretor Damjan M. Trbovc, (Kino Metropol, Celje 2015).
- Video poetry – VJ projection, coproduction: Zavoda za sodobne umetnosti in culture, Škuc Gallery and authors: Jana Putrle Srdič, Zoran Srdič Janežič, Alja Adam, Tone Škrjanec, (Ljubljana 2014).
- Snow white (J. W. Grimm), SLG Celje, director: Andrej Jus. Video and animation for video scenography (Celje 2014). COIN project, (Videolectures.net, Inštitut Jožef Štefan). Animated info-graphical video (2011).
- Studioroosegarde, Flow 0, 5 (animation for development of programme gear Flow 5,0 in video graphical presentation of the project Rotterdam, NL, 2008).
- Transatlantik 05, (director: Igor Vrtačnik) Producing graphical animations for documentary film (2008).
Awards, recognitions and rankings:
- 2018: Recognition of the University of Ljubljana for important art works in painting.
- 2016: Recognition of the Faculty of Design for important art works in visual culture and communitacion.
- 2010: Finalist of European Rewards of Promax agency / BDA for creative video graphics (Lisbon, Portugal).
- 2007: 6. Trim Research Award. 2004: Finalist of European Rewards of Promax agency / BDA for creative video graphics (London, UK).
- 2003: Reward of the Ul ALUO for special artistic achievements during the academic year 2002/2003.
- 2001: First prize of the 12th colony of graduate students of UL ALUO (Velenje).
- International colaborations:
- Studioroosegarde (Daan Roosegarde, Rotterdam, Netherland)
- Artcircolo project (Dr, Serafine Lindemann, Muenchen, Germany).
- Fantastificio SRL (Production house, Trieste, Italy).
Grants, residences:
- 2004–2005: Scholar of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
- 2012: Resident of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia in the field of video art (Berlin).
Memberships and Committees:
- Member of the Slovenian Animated Film Association.
- Expert mentor of the jury of the student competition program ‘Young Talents of Europe’ of the Animateka international festival.
Vezovnik Andreja
Prinčič Barbara
Education
2007 – Master of Arts on Ecology as a Way of Life at UL ALUO
1993 – received a scholarship from the Dutch government for postgraduate studies at the European Design Centre (EDC), Eindhoven, in cooperation with The Design Academy Eindhoven
1991 – Graduated from the Department for Design, UL ALU, majoring in Industrial Design
Work experience and guest posts
2024 – Professor of Industrial Design at ALUO
2018 – Visiting Lecturer at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2016 – Associate Professor of Industrial Design at ALUO
2010 – Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at ALUO
2008 – two academic years as an invited lecturer at HTBL Ferlach Design College, Austria
1997 – UL ALUO; assistant professor of Industrial Design
1993 – freelance designer; fields of work: visual communication and packaging design, State of the Art research
1992 – DPC-CETRA=Design Promotion Center-China External Trade Development Council, Taipei, Taiwan; consultancy in the field of professional and promotional activities for the preparatory ICSID World Congress in Taipei, consultancy in the field of education and awareness raising of local manufacturers/companies on industrial design as a strategic tool for achieving higher added value in products and thus a greater competitive advantage in international markets.
1991 – Formitas Agency; visual communication design and project management
1990 – Secretariat of the 17th ICSID Congress at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Editor-in-Chief of the periodical At the Crossroads News
Projects (from 2015 onwards)
2023 – Hmm, just where to put it. Project from the PDPPIZŠDO call for proposals. Project leader senior lect. mag. Nevenka Ferfila, Faculty of Medicine, UL.
2023 – Engineering expo project as part of the Engineer of the Year project. Design of exhibition stands and participation in the exhibition set-up. Client Mediade d.o.o., in cooperation with MG Rohr.
2022/23 – Design and implementation project for the exhibition Intertwining, in collaboration with ALUO students.
2022 – Re-Lax project; development of two products (a bench and a chair) from discarded conveyor belts for outdoor or indoor use, in collaboration with the Port of Koper.
2022 – T-60 art installation project for the international festival Svetlobna gverila. Matic Čič, Boštjan Drinovec, Žan Girandon, Pia Groleger, Luka Pleskovič, Barbara Prinčič, Vid Lebič, Jo Zornik.
2021 – Project Extending the lifetime of scrap from the production of rubber products by Lonstroff d.o.o. (student R&D project).
2020/21 – Student Corner project (student R&D applied project). Work carried out for ALUO.
2020 – Design and implementation of the ŠIPK exhibition project Say NO! Disposable products. Collaborator Tina Nunar (graphic design).
2020 – This will be my home. Project leader: prof. Tadej Glažar, Faculty of Architecture
2019 – Innovative solutions to reduce packaging. Project management in the framework of the ŠIPK call.
2019 – Innovative treatment of household waste in the kitchen. PKP Project leader Prof. Dr. Joško Valentinčič, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, UL.
2019 – Jute project – project for the development of a new material from discarded jute coffee sacks and the development of potential applications; in cooperation with Droga Kolinska and the Institute of Pulp and Paper, Ljubljana. Collaborator Andrej Šinkovec.
2018 – project for the design and realisation of the exhibition Second Round – a transparent exhibition of ALUO students in courses with sustainable content.
2017/18 – project on the potential use of waste/residues from a selected (production) process (student R&D project in cooperation with Filc d.o.o.).
2016/17 – Smart Shelter Research project in collaboration with Martin Schieldkamp, a Dutch architect based in Asia, who contributed to the call for papers (student R&D project).
2016 – conceptual development of games for the Gardi brand, with the Shroomko playhouse realised as the first product. In cooperation with Exor Eti d.o.o.
2015 – Practical use of discarded materials with focus on textile products. Project management in the framework of the PKP call. Work carried out for ALUO.
Exhibitions (from 2015 onwards)
- home
2022/23 – Intertwining exhibition. Small Lodge, Koper, 29.11.-19.12.2022 and Ljubljana City Hall, Right Atrium, 12.1.-16.2.2023
2021 – When I Close My Eyes. Solo exhibition of paintings made from discarded textiles. City Hall, Glass Atrium, Ljubljana
2020 – Exhibition Say NO! Disposable Products. Presentation of ten mentored student results from the ŠIPK Call for Innovative Solutions for Packaging Reduction. Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana
2018 – O…design, between vision and reality. Biennial exhibition of the Slovenian Designers Association, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana
2016 – Design Identity; solo presentation ‘Let’s Give Wood to Children’, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana
2016 – Images of Time; Biennial Review Exhibition of the Slovenian Designers’ Association, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana
- abroad
2022 – Guiltlessplastic. Exhibition of the finalists for the RO Plastic Prize 2022, Galleria Rossana Orlandi during Milan Design Week. Milan, Italy
2017 – Venice Design; curated side exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Organised by the GAA Foundation as part of the European Cultural Centre. Palazzo Michiel and Marinaressa Garden, Venice, Italy
2017 – Boomerang 7; Czech and Slovenian art project organised by AAMI Institute, Quadrium Center, Prague
2016 – Slovenian Design – exhibition of Slovenian design in Milan; Slovenia Design Showroom, Milan, Italy. Organised by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the SPIRIT Agency.
2015 – Exhibition of A’Design Award-winning projects and products (LED chandelier 5×5) in the former church of St. Francis, Como, Italy. Exhibition also presented at the World Design Hub 2015 and Irish Design 2015 in Dublin, Ireland and at the Shengzu Industrial Design Fair in China.
Awards and nominations
2022 – European Product Design Award-winner
2022 – Ro Guilt Plastic Prize 2022-finalist, Italy
2022 – A’Design Award and Competition 2022-runner up, Italy
2015 – A’Design Gold Award, Italy
2014 – A’Design Silver Award, Italy
2010 – Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA 2010) Finalist: the 5×5 Column is placed in the permanent collection of the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan, USA.
1996 – BIO 15, ICSID Honorary Award (group),
1987 – ALU Prešeren Prize, 1987
1986 – BIO 11, special commendation
Conferences, lectures, workshops (from 2015 onwards)
2023 – Organisation of a three-day student workshop on biomimetics, led by Dutch invited expert Saskia van der Muijsenberg.
2022 – Invited lecture on “The path to a green product – what is a green product?” at the 2022 SRIP MATPRO Consultation “The path to a green product – sustainability outside the box” Portorož. Organised by SRIPMAT and the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The lecture is available here.
2022 – The Story of Jute. Invited lecture as a public event at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, organised as part of the BIO 27 side activities.
2022 – participation in the international scientific conference Mediteranean Islands Conference-Vis 2022, Croatia, with the paper Sustainable Design in Practice at ALUO – Reducing Waste, Saving Resources, Minimising Costs by Developing and Making Multifunctional Units as Equipment for Students. Vis, Croatia, 14-17.9.2022
2020 – Invited lecture on The challenge for a circular economy; instead of the dump, the market. Time for innovation – “circular design” or “sustainable design”. Organised by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the framework of the Interreg Central Europe project, Coco4CCI.
2020 – Participation in the international scientific conference Mediterranean Islands Conference with the paper From Initiation to New Design Solutions Based on a Circular Economy. Organised by Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences and Grupa Vern. Vis, Croatia.
2020 – Sustainable Design, Invited lecture for members of the Rotary Club Triglav Ljubljana.
2020 – Organisation of a two-day student workshop on Co-Creation, led by Dutch invited expert Liesbeth Scholten.
2019 – Conducting a full-day Creative Green Action Workshop for students of the Creative Design Department, College of Design, Yun-tech, Taiwan.
2018 – guest invited lectures and workshop on Upcycling, Sustainability and Aesthetics at Tainan University of Technology, Fashion Design Department and National Chiayi University, both in Taiwan.
2018 – Our Responsible Journey, Invited Keynote Lecture at the International Conference on Cross-Boundary and Integration & Symposium on Sustainable Products and Industrial Management. Organised by National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.
2018 – Invited keynote lecture on Ecodesign and Product Value Added at the expert workshop From Material to Ecodesign – Packaging in the Circular Economy. Organised by Fit media d.o.o., Celje.
2017 – Awareness of the importance of environmentally responsible design among designers. Invited lecture at the Plastics Symposium. Organised by the Museum of Architecture and Design, Fužine Castle, Ljubljana.
2017 – Practicing Upcycling-Oriented Projects for a Circular Economy. Invited lecture at the Retrace partners meeting in Ljubljana. Organised by the Slovenian Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy.
Mentorships, co-mentorships (diplomas and award-winning projects since 2015)
2023 – GIRANDON, Žan, GROLEGER, Pia, PLESKOVIČ, Luka. Planning proposals and solutions to raise awareness and eliminate the problem of water pollution in local communities with their own water intake: master thesis A. Ljubljana. Also recipients of the Daljnogled award, given by the Slovenian Designers Association.
2023 – JARH, Bor. Product design with geometry optimization : bachelor thesis. Ljubljana: [B. Jarh], 2023. 45 p., illus. Mentor Lidija Pritržnik. [COBISS.SI-ID 149620483]
2022 – Matic Čič, Žan Girandon, Pia Groleger, Vid Lebič, Tena Palian, Satya Pene, Luka Pleskovič, Daša Šešerko, Jo Zornik. Co-mentor doc. Boštjan Drinovec. Recipients of the ALUO Prešeren Prize for the project T-60 and Reflection.
2022 – DIETNER, Jan. Refillable packaging for sustainable use : thesis. Ljubljana: [J. Dietner], 2022. 77 p., illus. [COBISS.SI-ID 130263811]
2021 – MERŠE, Lea. Sustainability aspects of the problem of discarded textiles : thesis. Ljubljana: [L. Merše], 2021. 56 p., illus. Mentor Lidija Pritržnik. [COBISS.SI-ID 77386755]
2021 – Dea Beatovikj, Tino Duralija, Martin Pevec, Valeska Rimele, Jon Schwarzmann, Žiga Žalec; mentoring on the project Student Corner, for which they received the Daljnogled award from the Slovenian Designers’ Association.
2020 – LESNIKA, Alja. Sustainable furniture : bachelor thesis. Ljubljana: [A. Lesnika], 2020. 63 p., illustrated. Mentor Rok Kuhar. [COBISS.SI-ID 28387843]
2019 – Julija Karas and Neža Medved. Recipients of the Daljnogled award for their project “Potential uses of waste/residues from a selected (production) process”. Development of a new biopolymer.
2019 – Ajda Auer, Ajda Bertok, Jernej Kapus, Ambrož Močnik. Saddles from discarded cerados. Semi-finalist in Young Balkan Designers 2019: Circular Design. Belgrade. Serbia.
2017 – Valentina Arčan and Maja Grobler. Mentoring on the project Bio Seedling Pots. 1st prize winners at the festival (and competition) Reci:Design, Images of Recycling, Celje. Organised by Outsider magazine.
2017 – Špela Čuk and Katarina Merslavič. Mentorship on the project Travel bag made from discarded car belts. Winners of the 2nd prize at the Reci:Design festival (and competition), Images of Recycling, Celje. Organised by Outsider magazine.
2017 – Lin Gerkman and Jakob Koncut. Mentorship on the project Multifunctional light (also as a pendant) KLO. Winners of the 3rd prize at the Reci:Design festival (and competition), Images of Recycling, Celje. Organised by Outsider magazine.
2016 – JERMANČIČ, Damijan. Siesta-moments : lounging entertainers and comfortable touchscreens : bachelor thesis B. Ljubljana: [ D. Jermančič], 2016. 96 p., illus. [COBISS.SI-ID 3560046]
2016 – SEVER, Maja. Induction plate in incandescent appliances : bachelor thesis B. Ljubljana: [ M. Sever], 2016. 43 p., [1] p. f., ill. [COBISS.SI-ID 3560302].
2016 – TURK, Katja. Modular caravan with an emphasis on the development of functional pull-out modules. Ljubljana: [ K. Turk], 2016. 131 p., illus. [COBISS.SI-ID 3519598]
2016 – ČERVEK, Katjuša. Fast food packaging : diploma thesis. Ljubljana: [K. Červek], 2016. 98 p., [5] p. f., ill. Mentor Vladimir Pezdirc. [COBISS.SI-ID 3545710]
2016 – KAKER, Jelka. Re-use of waste objects and materials : diploma thesis. Ljubljana: [ J. Kaker], 2016. 90 p., illus. Mentor Vladimir Pezdirc. [COBISS.SI-ID 3546734]
2015 – BARBARIĆ, Rina. Series of covers for Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong music albums : thesis. Ljubljana: [R. Barbarić], 2015. 35 p., illus. Mentor Ranko Novak. [COBISS.SI-ID 3431278]
Job functions at the Academy and the University
2023-25 Head of the Department for Industrial Design and Applied Arts, ALUO
2023 on the basis of the decision of the Dean of ALUO on appointment – Member of the Working Group on Sustainability at ALUO
2022-2023 (October-February) at the request of the Head of the Parent Department Coordinator of the renewal of the Industrial Design and Applied Arts study programme in accordance with the ALUO A1 strategy
2022 onwards on the proposal of the Rector of the UL Chairperson of the University Disciplinary Committee for 2nd cycle students
2022 onwards on the proposal of the Dean Member of the University Commission for Extracurricular Activities
2020-2022 Head of the Chair for the Development of Design Education
2019 onwards Member of the ALUO Quality Commission
2017-2019 Member of the ALUO Recognition Commission
2015-2019 Administrator of the study programme Industrial Design and Applied Arts (also in the period autumn 2020 to spring 2021)
2015-2019 Head of the Industrial Design course
Berlot Pompe Uršula
Education:
2010: Doctorate, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana
2002: Master of Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana
2000: DNSAP – diploma École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1998: Diploma – academic painter, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana
1992 – 1994: study of philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Work experiences:
2009 – present: teaches at the Department of Theoretical Sciences UL ALUO
2006 – 2010: Lecturer at the College of Design, Ljubljana
2003 – 2006: Lecturer at the Callegari Institute, Italian School of Design, Ljubljana
Memberships and collaborations:
2012–: member of the editorial board of the Journal for the Critique of Science, Imagination, and the New Anthropology
2016–: member of the editorial board of the journal Art Words
2010–: member of the Society for Aesthetics in Ljubljana
1999–: member of the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies (ZDSLU)
Awards and recognitions:
2021: Recognition of Rihard Jakopič, ZDSLU, Ljubljana
2020: International Award ‘Featured Artist’, ADA – Archive of Digital Arts, Austria
2006: Award – Schering Stiftung, residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien 2007, Berlin
2005: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, New York
2004: Henkel Art Award, KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna
Exhibitions:
In her artwork, Uršula Berlot Pompe deals with the intersections of art, science and philosophy. She explores relationships between the real and the virtual, between direct and technologically mediated perceptual experiences of reality, often using technologically advanced optical research tools (radiology, microscopy). In experimental and research-oriented artistic practice, she intertwines various media and genres, and explores the forms of mental spaces in video works, light-kinetic installations or drawings, the question of simulated nature and the relationship between mind, body and technological media.
International exhibitions include exhibitions at museums such as Today Art Museum in Beijing, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, BA-CA Kunstforum Tresor in Vienna, Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. She has also exhibited in national exhibitions such as Moderna galerija, UGM Maribor, Centre of Contemporary Arts Celje, Loža Gallery, Nova Gorica City Gallery, Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Equrna Gallery, Škuc Gallery).
Selection of international exhibitions:
2021 ‘Triennial of Central European Culture and Art: The Universal ‘, Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic (next)
2019 ‘Endemic vs. Global’, C3 Science Complexity Centre, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
2018 ‘Extra/Ordinary’ Plug-in New Media Art – Contemporary Istanbul, IKM Istanbul Congress Centre, Istanbul
2016 ‘Flat and Distant – China and Slovenia Contemporary Art’, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2013 ‘Museo Illuminato’, Museo Revoltella, Trieste, Italy
2012 ‘Scatole sonore/Sound Boxes, Palinsesti 2012’, Palazzo Altan, San Vito al Tagliamento,
Italy
2009 ‘Biennale Quadrilaterale 3: Media Art – Angles and Intersections’, Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2009 ‘SCI-ART’, Enrico Astuni Gallery, Bologna, Italy
2008 ‘Glow: Forum of Light in Art and Architecture ‘, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2008 ‘Transmediale 08: Conspire ‘, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2007 ‘Pulse / Intersections’, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2006 ‘Art’Fab: L’art/ la femme/ L’Europe’, La Citadelle, Saint-Tropez, France
2006 ‘Our House is the House That Moves’, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2001 ‘Sakaide Art Grand Prix 2001’, Sakaide Civic Art Museum, Sakaide, Japan
Selection of national exhibitions:
2020 ‘Bodyfraction’, City Gallery Nova Gorica (solo)
2019 ‘New Window. Duplicate Extension’ by Urs Bold, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana (duo)
2019 ‘SELFIE / sh / me – self-portraits’, Piran City Gallery
2017 ‘Polymorphic Imprint’, UGM studio, Maribor (solo)
2017 ‘Epilogue – Space, Body and Media in Transition’, Dvorec Novo Celje near Žalec
2016 ‘The Earth is Flat – Contemporary Slovenian and Chinese Art’, Art Gallery
Maribor (UGM), Maribor
2015 ‘Pixxelpoint 2015: Subject – 16th International Festival of Media Arts’, City Gallery Nova Gorica
2014 ‘La magia dell’arte; I protagonisti dell’arte Slovena contemporanea 1968 – 2013’, Villa
Manin, Passariano di Codroipo
2012 ‘Almost Spring – 100 Years of Slovenian Art’, UGM, Maribor
2012 ‘Vanitas’, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo)
2012 ‘Bodyscope’, Kibla – multimedia centre, Maribor (solo)
2011 ‘Contemporary Art from Slovenia’, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main
2010 ‘Drawing in Slovenia II. 1940 – 2009 ‘, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2008 ‘Transience’, Božidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki (solo)
2008 ‘Poetics’, Carinthian Gallery Slovenj Gradec
2005 ‘Slovenian Art 1995-2005: Territories, Identities, Networks’, Modern Gallery,
Ljubljana
2005 ‘Towards Zero Gravity’, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia. http: //zerogravity.mg-
lj.si/eng/svetloba/berlot.htm
2002 ‘Reflection’, Small Gallery – Modern Gallery, Ljubljana (solo)
References:
She is the author of a monograph on Duchamp and also articles on the field of art theory which thematically address issues of perception and representation of space in fine arts, technology and neuroaesthetics, and concepts of traditional aesthetics such as representation, simulation and mimesis.
Selection:
- Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Complexity and Technological Biomorphism in Contemporary Abstract Painting. Proceedings for Tomaž Brejec: Special edition of the Proceedings of Art History, Ljubljana: Slovenian Art History Society, 2020
- Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Pictorial Abstractions: Visualising Space in the Eras of Modernism and Information, AR / Architecture Research I / 2018 “Correspondences”. Ljubljana: Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, 2018
- Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Space and the Spectator: Embodied Perception in the Art of Installation. Journal of Critique of Science, Imagination and New Anthropology XLVI / 274: 27-54. Ljubljana: Institute Journal of the Critique of Science, 2018
- Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Intuition in Contemporary Art. Art Words, 106. Ljubljana: ZDSLU, 2017
- Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Neuroart, Neuroaesthetics and the Question of Consciousness. ČKZ, XLIV / 265. Ljubljana: Institute Journal of the Critique of Science, 2016
- Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Minimal Difference and Modern Mimesis. Art Words, 103. Ljubljana: ZDSLU, 2016
- Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Space and Light in 20th Century Art Installations. Gaps (Praznine) 08/2015. Ljubljana: Praznine Art Education Association, 2015
- Berlot Pompe, Uršula. Duchamp in Mimesis. Ljubljana: Research Institute of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, 2011
- Berlot, Ursula. Duchamp and the Notion of Optical Tactility. Art, Emotion and Value. 5th Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics. University of Murcia, 2011
- Berlot, Ursula. Biomimesis and Contemporary Art. Journal of Critique of Science, Imagination and Anthropology, vol. XXXIX, 2011, no. 244. Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 2011
Mentoring:
Doctoral thesis mentoring
GOLOB, Urška. The Influence of Digital Media on the Creative Process in Fine Arts: doctoral dissertation. Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, 2018
Mentoring of theoretical work in master’s theses
LEKŠE, Lene. Strategies and Expectations, ALUO, 2021
ERJAVEC, Nika. Sensory Perceptions at the Intersection of Art and Science, ALUO, 2021
ŠVET, Teodora. Layers of Reality, ALUO, 2021
MILOVANOVIC, Danilo. Artivism – Engaged Urban Art in the Public Space, ALUO, 2020
ZORZUT, Neja. Amorphous Object Fusion; Alohton, ALUO, 2020
PREZELJ, Tim. The Microscope as a Bridge Between Science and Art, ALUO, 2020
HOZJAN, Veronika. Neurological Foundations of Perception and Artistic Creation; Look at Me!, ALUO, 2020
KOSI, Janja. Everyday Life of Heterotopic Space, ALUO, 2020
KOCMUR, Tatjana. Body Installation – Between Performance and Object, ALUO, 2020
PREK, Urša. Movement in the Diversity of Time and Space, ALUO, 2020
VUČKO, Teja. The Outpouring of Presence into the Eternal and (Internalised) Spaces of the Landscape; Beyond, ALUO, 2019
DRVARIČ, Živa. Expansion of the Circle; (Un) happiness, ALUO, 2018
GRUDNIK, Jasmina. Time Capture; Model of my Life, ALUO, 2018
PORI, Zala. Art as an Intuitive Practice; Transparency and Abstract Field, ALUO, 2018
RESNIK, Mira. The Influences of the Formal and Conceptual Expansions of the Painting Space in the 1960s on Contemporary Art; My Works in Space and Time, ALUO, 2018
KLEVA IVANČIĆ, Rok. Illustration Portfolio – from Concept to Edition, ALUO, 2016
Co-mentorship in master’s theses
PREZELJ, Tim. The Microscope as a Bridge Between Science and Art, Biotechnical Faculty, 2020
BELTRAN, Jana. Spaces of Colour and Light, ALUO, 2016
Mentoring in diploma theses
AREH, Marko. Indoor and Outdoor LED Lights, Faculty of Design, 2011
JORDEVA, Marija. Uniqueness of Colour Effect: Subjective Influence of Colours in Interior Design, VŠD, 2010
Co-mentorship in diploma theses
MIHEVC, Matej. Neural Networks and the Future of Cultural Production, ALUO, 2021
KUCLER, David. It is Easier to Imagine the End of the World, ALUO, 2021
KOBAL, Pia. Taxonomy of the Visual, ALUO, 2021
PRISLAN, Katarina. Modern Man Seeks ALUO, 2021
KLINAR, Ema. Paradox Portrait, ALUO, 2021
BOJANIĆ, Maja. From Home, with Regards, ALUO, 2020
TOVORNIK, Nina. Everything is Worth Failing, ALUO, 2020
BAUMAN, Inja. Light Tolerance and Nature Conservation Ethics in Painting, ALUO, 2019
LEKŠE, Lene. Mountain, ALUO, 2018
KOCMUR, Tatiana. Body Image in my Practice, ALUO, 2015
OBLAK, Jerca. The Role of Drawing in Contemporary Art and my Practice, ALUO, 2014
MEGLIČ, Maruša. The Confessional Art of Louise Bourgeois. Discovering Aspects of Women through Art, ALUO, 2012
KUMAR, Voranc. Projection and Space of Difference, ALUO, 2012
HRUP, Anamari. Synthesis Between the Subject and the Abstract in the Pictorial Field through the Analysis of One’s Own Work and the Work of Selected Authors, ALUO, 2012
Čehovin Eduard
Education:
Prof. Eduard Čehovin graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, the Department for Graphic Design, Graphic Communication and Typographies.
Professional experience:
He teaches the elective subjects of interactive design, kinetic typography and graphic design at the Department for Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.
Member of the Committee for Academic Affairs
He lectures and writes articles on graphic design and is a member of many international juries in the field of design.
Scholarships, specialisations:
As a scholar of IREX – International Research and Exchanges Board, USA – he spent one year at the University of Buffalo and at Parsons School of Design in New York.
Awards:
He won the most prestigious international awards, such as Type Directors Club (TDC), Art Directors Club Award (ADC), Good Design Awards, Graphis Annuals Awards in Design Quarterly (USA), and D&AD (UK).
Publications:
His works were published in all major international graphic-design publications and books, such as Graphis Annuals, Communications Arts, Print, HOW, Visible Language, Typo Directors Club Annual, Art Directors Club Annual, Creative Quartely . USA; Linea Grafica – Italy; Novum – Gemrany; Etapes – France.
Exhibitions:
He exhibits in solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia and around the world, including Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Taiwan and the USA.
His works are included in the permanent collections of the International Trademark Centre in Zandhoven, Belgium; Museum of Applied Arts in Zagreb, Croatia, Les Silos – Maison du Livre et de l’Affiche – Contemporary Collection in Chaumont, France; Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Serbia; MGLC – International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia; Museum of Design (Poster Collection) in Zurich, Switzerland; The Chicago Athenaeum in Chicago, USA and the private collection of Merrill C. Berman in Rye, USA.
Memberships:
Member of TDC (Type Directors Club), New York.
References:
AWARDS
2014 – Winner, za plakat 92nd ADC and 11th YG exhibition, QUAD INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS, Kassel, Germany
2013 – Gold Award, za plakat THE RESISTIBLE RISER OF ARTURO UI, GRAPHIS POSTER ANNUAL 2013, New York, USA
2012 – Gold Award, za logotip INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DESIGN, GRAPHIS LOGO DESIGN 8, New York, USA
2012 – Gold Award, za BILLBOARD FOR 10th SEASON, GRAPHIS POSTER ANNUAL 2012, New York, USa
2008 – Good Design Award 2008, za časopis DVA (TWO) MAGAZINE, THE CHICAGO ATHENAEUM – Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago, USA
PUBLICATIONS
- 2013 – Eduard Čehovin, Kinetic Zebra, Novum+, Outdoor, NOVUM, 07.13; Marta Almeida; Magazine Verlag GmbH, Munchen, no. 42 (review)
- 2012 – Functional, Constructivist, NEW MODERNIST TYPE; Steve Heller and Gail Anderson; Thames & Hudson, London, UK; no. 23, 77
- 2011 – Slovenia, Best in Europe & Africa, GRAPHIS POSTER ANNUAL 2014, B. Martin Pedersen; Graphis, New York, USA; st. 197 (Knjiga)
- 2111 – Theater, Resistible rise of Arturo Ui, GRAPHIS POSTER ANNUAL 2013, by B. Martin Pedersen; Graphis, New York, USA; p. 227-228 (Knjiga)
- 2008 – Editorial, GRAPHIS DESIGN ANNUAL 2009 by B. Martin Pedersen; Graphis, New York, USA; p. 101 (Knjiga)
EXHIBITIONS
- 2014 – MANDELA POSTER PROJECTS, National Museum of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia (skupinska)
- 2104 – 1ST ASIAN INVITATIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN EXHIBITION, Daejeon Linli Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea (skupinska)
- 2012 – Artistic ZEBRA/ Street Art Project; Front of Museum of Contemporary Arts, Novi Sad, Srbija (samostojna)
- 2010 – Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things, Weil am Rhein, Nemčija (skupinska)
- 2009 – 80+80 PHOTO_graphisme, Pariz, Francija (skupinska)
CONGRESSES
- 2015 – Na tipografskem kongresu TYPOGRAPHIC DAY 2015 – TYPOGRAPHY, SENSITIVITY AND FINENESS je pod International Speakers sprejet in predstavljen projekt EUROPE 2020, Industrial Design Centre (IDC) na Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India
- 2012 – Na tipografskem kongresu TYPOGRAPHIC DAY 2012 – TYPOGRAPHY AND PUBLICATION je pod International Speakers sprejet in predstavljen projekt Dva (Two) Magazine, Magazine for Visual Relations, Industrial Design Centre (IDC) na Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India
Fras Domen
Domen Fras is a graphic designer and typographer who feels great among students, especially when he passes on knowledge of typography and typefaces – the fields of his practice, study and research.
www.fras.si
www.aparat.org
Education
- 1998: graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana
- 2000: received his master’s degree from Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London
Professional experience
- 2019 visiting professor at Umjetnička akademija u Splitu, Croatia
- 2017 employed at Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Univeristy of Ljubljana, associate professor
- 2011 employed at Faculty of Natural sciences, University of Ljubljana, assitant professor
- 2002: co-founded the Trajekt Institute for Spatial Culture
- 2001-2011: self-employed person in culture, established the Aparat type & design studio
- 2000–: In two decades of intensive design practice, he has participated in numerous public and cultural projects in various media linking architectural, graphic and typographic design, some of which have been awarded.
Participations in conferences
- 2014: speaker at the conference Association Typographique Internationale in Barcelona
- 2020: speaker at the conference ATypi All Over (on-line)
Memberships
- 2018: expert member of the committee for the Prešeren Fund for Design and Architecture
- 2016: member of the jury for the Book of the Year of the Chamber of Book Publishers and Booksellers
- Member of the Associtaion Typographique Internationale
Awards
- Award at 21st Salon of Architecture, Novi Sad, 2018
- BVSS Ljubljana, Excellence Mention, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015
- BVSS Ljubljana, Jury Mention, 2015
- 24th Slovenian Book Fair, Most beautiful Slovenian book, 2008
References (selection)
- Š. Kuhar & R. Potokar: Stories of Slovenian Architecture, book design, Beltrina, Ljubljana, 2020
- Types and Faces of Ljubljana (Type Walk), short film for the conference ATypi All Over, 2020
- Looking Back up Close – solo review exhibition, display of prof. Fras’s planning process and design approaches Domžale Gallery, February 2019; UMAS/DVK Gallery Split, Croatia, May 2019; Razstavišče na gradu, Ravne na Koroškem, March 2020
- D. Fras: Nazaj od blizu: Aparatove črke & oblike 1998–2018, book, 2019
- N. Charney: Eternal Architect: The Life and Art of Jože Plečnik, Modernist Mystic; book design, Muzeji in galerije mesta Ljubljane & Totaliteta (Award 21st Salon of the Architecture, Novi Sad, Serbia), 2018
- Impresionists by Drago Tršar; exhibition design, Pomurski muzej Murska Sobota (Jury Mention, 7. BVSS, Ljubljana), 2014
- 20th anniversary of Slovenia’s independence; collectors coins design, Bank of Slovenia, Ljubljana (1st Prize, public competition), 2011
- Š. Kuhar & R. Potokar: Let’s See the City; book design, Ustanova Fundacija Piranesi, Ljubljana (24th Slovenian book fair, Most beautiful Slovenian book), 2008
- Bus stops LPP Ljubljana; Information design, Proreklam –Europlakat, Ljubljana (Excellence Mention, 2nd BVSS, Ljubljana), 2005
Exhibitions (selection)
- Mladi smo in živi: 100 let šole za arhitekturo v Ljubljani (10. mar.–23. avg. 2020); skupinska razstava študentskih del UL Fakulteta za arhitekturo & Cankarjev dom
- Nazaj od blizu – samostojna pregledna razstava, Galerija Domžale, februar 2019, Galerija UMAS/DVK Split, Hrvaška, maj 2019, Razstavišče na gradu, Ravne na Koroškem, marec 2020
- 9 kovancev; samostojna razstava, (z Majo B. Jančič), 8. dec. 2009–31. dec. 2009, Mestni muzej Ljubljana, Ljubljana