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A designer born in 1969 in Kraków; she studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, and received her degree from the Department of Interior Architecture in 1994.

From 2012 to 2020, she served as associate dean of the School of Interior Architecture. She has been associated with the university and the school for many years and also collaborates with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts KASK in Ghent, and In Situ Lab Le Corbusier in Strasbourg.

CreatoroftheInteractive Lab student workshops,which gave rise to international artistic and design projects (“By-pass,” “Perpetuus – Systems of Spatial Coding,” “Gap Game,” “Habiter, habitant, habitude,” “Memory Stream,” “Spazio polifonico”), and co-founder of the International Biennial of Interior Architecture and its six editions.

She carries out multidisciplinary projects, promoting collaboration between the university and the scientific, social, and cultural communities. In collaboration with artist Hedva Ser(UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador & Special Envoy for Cultural Diplomacy), she coordinated astudentproject to adapt a space for a sculpture exhibition on Kurlandzki Boulevard in Kraków; she is the founder of the international Design, Art & Technology (DAT) study program and a student internship program in Italy.

In collaborationwiththe National Museum in Kraków duringMuseum Night, she coordinated two editions of the interdisciplinary student projects “Cracovia re/in/venting” (2018) and “InadreamCracovia” (2019).

She collaborates with organizations and foundations, facilitating interactive, conscious design initiatives in the context of pro-social relationships. Together with her partners, she has organized exhibitions promoting young artists and designers, including*Self/ie – Design – It* (2016),*Indian Summer* (2018), Nie/świadomość (2019), Spazio polifonico (2019), and Zamieszkiwanie (2020)

She has completed numerous architectural design projects and interior design pieces that are currently part of private collections both in Poland and abroad.

A graduate of the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. After graduating, she began working at the Department of Space and Color in her home faculty, where she has served as head of the Color Science Laboratory since 2004. She has taught courses in space and color design and visual communication design, and has served as an advisor for bachelor’s and master’s theses. From 2008 to 2012, she served as associate dean of the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Academy of Fine Arts. She was a member of the Academy of Fine Arts Senate from 2012 to 2020 and for the 2024–2028 term. As part of an agreement between the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and the State Higher Vocational School in Tarnów, she developed the design program at that institution in 2012 and served as head of the Department of Design from 2012 to 2018. She led workshops on color design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim and at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès Institut Supérieur Couleur Image Design (ISCID) in Montauban.

Industrial designer. Author of numerous projects in the field of color design for private companies and public institutions. In 2011, she participated in the work of the ministerial team responsible for the color registry of the Republic of Poland. An expert in color trends and the development of color charts and palettes for paint and varnish manufacturers; a participant in international meetings on color trend forecasting organized by the American Color Marketing Group and the Institute of Industrial Design in Warsaw. From 2001 to 2002, she was a member of the editorial team of the design quarterly 2+3D.

Author of scholarly works in the field of color science and color design, and a member of international research teams; member of the Study Group on Environmental Color Design (ECD) of the International Color Association (AIC) and of Gruppo del Colore – Associazione Italiana Colore. Editor for color design at the academic journal *Colour Culture and Science Journal*, published by Gruppo del Colore in Milan. 

A graduate of the Sculpture Department at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he completed his diploma project in 2003 under the supervision of Prof. Jerzy Nowakowski. His doctoral advisor was Prof. Andrzej Getter. He completed his studies in cultural diplomacy at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, writing his thesis under the academic supervision of Ambassador Ryszard Żółtaniecki. He also studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Kraków University of Technology (postgraduate studies).

Intern, assistant, assistant professor, and currently professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Since 2017, he has headed the Department of Architectural and Sculptural Design at the Faculty of Sculpture, where he has been engaged in research and teaching since 2003. From 2015 to 2020, he served as a visiting professor at the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts—appointed to the position through an international competition. He has given guest lectures and master classes at numerous universities in Europe, Israel, Australia, China, and the United States. He completed a teaching internship at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Switzerland as part of the Swiss-European Mobility Program. Since 2022, he has been a collaborator and visiting scholar at Florida Atlantic University. He is the founder and chair of the Program Council of the Institute of Someasthetics and the Arts Center.

Work in the field of spatial art. Winner of international contemporary art competitions, primarily in Japan, including the Kajima Sculpture-Architecture-Space Competition in Tokyo, the Kanazawa Machinaka Sculpture Competition in Kanazawa, the Sakaide Art Grand Prix in Sakaide, Kobe Contemporary Art Biennale – Kobe. He has presented his works in group and post-competition exhibitions, as well as in solo shows at the Center for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko. He is the academic editor of the “Space-Time-Form” publication series.

He received a scholarship from the Society of Friends of Kraków in Chicago. He is a scholarship recipient of the Minister of Culture and a recipient of the Creative Scholarship from the Mayor of Kraków. He is a scholarship recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York, as well as a multiple recipient of scholarships from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the “Polish Culture in the World” program. He has been awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit, the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture, and the Medal of the National Education Commission. For his creative work, teaching, and organizational activities, he has received awards from the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (3rd, 2nd, and 1st class, as well as a Special Award). He serves on the juries of national and international art competitions, including the jury for the annual “Diploma of the Year” competition organized by the Association of Friends of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and the “Best Academy of Fine Arts Diplomas” competition organized by the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. He has been appointed to expert panels for, among others, the National Agency for Academic Exchange and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Supervisor and author of the laudatory address in the proceedings to award Daniel Karavan an honorary doctorate from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.

As Vice Rector for Cooperation, he oversees the implementation and updating of the Academy of Fine Arts’ strategy regarding cooperation and internationalization, chairs the Rector’s Council for Internationalization, oversees events organized by the academy in cooperation with other entities—including, in particular, international partners—and initiates and maintains cooperation with government agencies, cultural institutions, other universities and institutions, and business entities.