Studio heads: doc. Mgr. art. Jana Potiron, ArtD., MgA. Štěpán Rous, Ph.D.

Our studio is convinced that design can offer solutions for our everyday life as well as for serious social topics. Furniture and interior equipment affect the life that is going around and inside of them. Design can shape the interior, provide comforts, satisfy our needs, dominate the space around us or remain inconspicuous. We do not understand design only as something practical and useful. We believe in its ability to evoke emotions and be as expressive as a work of art, and as precise as a well-functioning machine. It can be serious and playful at the same time, democratic, but also critical.

Together we search for a new morphology of furniture and interior products, provide them with new functions, and try to think ahead. We encourage bold conceptual solutions that may overlap with art and site-specific installations, handcrafts and new technologies. The student assignments are often abstract and broadly related to the designing of furniture, lighting or small practical articles – but always with respect to the given interior and the preferences of the future users. Our students are not afraid to experiment with various materials and also to develop new materials. When drafting a concept, they always try to understand the relations between the product and its users. The students brainstorm together, search for innovative forms, work both individually and together on various projects and cooperate with production companies.

For us, design is above all a creative expression of intelligence, something that we enjoy. It is a special way of looking at things in our everyday life, searching for connections in untypical situations and drawing inspiration from various interactions between people and the world they live in.

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