{"id":25239,"date":"2025-10-08T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aluo.uni-lj.si\/sodelavke-sodelavci\/groleger-pia\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:44:07","slug":"groleger-pia","status":"publish","type":"sodelavke-sodelavci","link":"https:\/\/www.aluo.uni-lj.si\/en\/sodelavke-sodelavci\/groleger-pia\/","title":{"rendered":"Groleger Pia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researcher ID: 61255<\/a>
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Pia Groleger is a designer, PhD student, and young researcher with a particular interest in the intersection of visual literacy, sustainable design, and water environments. She is actively involved in the research programme Visual Literacy (P5-0452), where she explores visual perception and attention through methods such as mobile eye tracking, contributing to a deeper understanding of how environmental information is communicated and perceived. Her work focuses on the role of design in addressing environmental challenges, especially those related to water systems, and examines how visual communication can foster more sustainable and responsible relationships with natural environments. She also engages with the integration of vernacular knowledge and emerging technologies to support context-sensitive design approaches. Although at an early stage of her academic career, she has received several awards for her design work, including the Distributed Design Award, the Pre\u0161eren Student Award, and the crQlr Award Japan. Alongside her design practice, she is developing her research and writing within the fields of design, sustainability, and visual communication.<\/p>\n

Awards:<\/strong>
\n2025 Pre\u0161eren Student Award for Master\u2019s Thesis (together with \u017dan Girandon and Luka Pleskovi\u010d)
\n2024 Designblok diploma selection shortlist (together with \u017dan Girandon and Luka Pleskovi\u010d)
\n2024 First Prize Glassberries Award 2024 (together with \u017dan Girandon)
\n2024 crQlr Award Japan (together with \u017dan Girandon and Luka Pleskovi\u010d)
\n2024 First Prize reDiscover (together with \u017dan Girandon and Luka Pleskovi\u010d)
\n2023 UL Ceremonial Certificate for the Best Academic Achievements
\n2023 Made in Slovenia Selection of Design Excellence (together with \u017dan Girandon and Luka Pleskovi\u010d)
\n2023 Winners of the First Round of the Young Balkan Designers Competition (together with \u017dan Girandon and Luka Pleskovi\u010d)
\n2023 New European Finalist of Bauhaus (together with \u017dan Girandon and Luka Pleskovi\u010d)
\n2023 Green Project Nomination (together with \u017dan Girandon and Luka Pleskovi\u010d)
\n2022 Pre\u0161eren Student Award for the T60 Project (together with Matic \u010ci\u010d, \u017dan Girandon, Vid Lebi\u010d, Luka Pleskovi\u010d and Jo Zornik)
\n2022 DOS Award (together with \u017dan Girandon and Luka Pleskovi\u010d)
\n2022 Zavod BIG Perspektivni Award (together with \u017dan Girandon and Luka Pleskovi\u010d)
\n2022 Zagreb Design Week 1st and 2nd Prizes in the Social Innovation Category (together with Maru\u0161a Dolinar, \u017dan Girandon, Luka Pleskovi\u010d, Tja\u0161a Mu\u017eina and Simon Rozman)
\n2022 Distributed Design Award \u2013 Project Excellence (together with \u017dan Girandon and Luka Pleskovi\u010d)
\n2022 Honorable Mention Cumulus Green (together with \u017dan Girandon and Luka Pleskovi\u010d)
\n2022 National Award for the Best Wooden Product SPIRIT Slovenia
\n2021 3rd Prize Service Design Challenge 2021 Philips (together with Maru\u0161a Dolinar, \u017dan Girandon, Luka Pleskovi\u010d, Tja\u0161a Mu\u017eina and Simon Rozman)
\n2021 1st prize space capsule of the Noordung Center (together with Jo Zornik)<\/p>\n

Conferences:<\/strong>
\n2026 Cumulus Dunedin
\n2026 28th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education
\n2026 Cumulus Athens<\/p>\n

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Professional experience:<\/h2>\n


\nUniversity of Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Arts and Design<\/strong>
\n2025\u2013present: Young researcher at of the Visual Literacy research program
\n2025\u2013present: Assistant at the Department of Industrial Design and Applied Arts
\n2026\u2013present: Member of Sustainability Group at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana
\n2024\u20132025: Member of Sustainable Exhibition Research team (HUD funds) of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana
\n2023 Coordinator of the Sustainable Exhibition Research team of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana
\n2019\u20132022 Demonstrator at the Department of Industrial Design and Applied Arts<\/p>\n

Trajna association<\/strong>
\n2025: Local Project Manager<\/p>\n

Center for Creativity \/ Museum of Architecture and Design<\/strong>
\n2023\u20132024: Project Managemer<\/p>\n

Floating university<\/strong>
\n2021\u20132023: Assistant at the festival (Re-)gaining ecological futures I-III<\/p>\n

Pjorkkala association<\/strong>
\n2022\u2013present: Cofounder of the design and research association<\/p>\n

Freelancer<\/strong>
\n2020\u20132025: Product designer, Researcher, Interior designer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":28850,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"naziv_zaposlenih":[6596],"class_list":["post-25239","sodelavke-sodelavci","type-sodelavke-sodelavci","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","naziv_zaposlenih-young-researchers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aluo.uni-lj.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sodelavke-sodelavci\/25239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aluo.uni-lj.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sodelavke-sodelavci"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aluo.uni-lj.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sodelavke-sodelavci"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aluo.uni-lj.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aluo.uni-lj.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"naziv_zaposlenih","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aluo.uni-lj.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naziv_zaposlenih?post=25239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}