IF – Partners

EUNIC Cluster Warsaw strives to build bridges between culture, society, economy, and technology in cooperation with local partners. With the project IF – SOCIAL DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES – Making Cities and Human Settlements Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable, EUNIC Warsaw aims at highlighting the involvement of culture and social design in the societal debate on sustainable cities. EUNIC Warsaw is confident that connecting different perspectives will result in something new and creative. It is in this ratio that the project IF – SOCIAL DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES has been organized in order to contribute to a framework for continuing interdisciplinary discussions including creative minds using arts as a tool, helping to pave the way for sustainable urban growth.

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The department of New Media Art of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technologies was launched in 2004. English Language study program is unique in Poland and consolidates Polish art and design traditions with new technologies. The curriculum enables students to investigate innovative approaches to contemporary theory and practice, and fosters both individual inquiry and high-level collaboration. Current research areas in the department include new forms of visual communication using sensor and physical interfaces, experimental games, augmented reality, motion graphics, hybrid architectural/media environments, digitally articulated sculpture, and responsive environments. The primary objective of the program is to prepare creative critical thinkers. PJAIT is active on the international scene, cooperating with academics around the world.

team

EUNIC supervisors

Rupert Weinmann

Martin van Dijk

Dominik Neubauer

José Carlos da Costa Dias

PJAIT curators

Ewa Satalecka

Marjatta Itkonen

Jan Piechota

Student team

Maciej Jakóbczyk

Jasiek Moskal

Natalia Opalińska

Alicja Kondej

Anna Kalmus

Kinga Ostapkowicz

Curators

Ewa Satalecka (Warsaw)

Ewa Satalecka is a graphic designer, head of New Media Art Dep. of the PJAIT in Warsaw, a leader of the English Language Program, and the scientific director of the international, interdisciplinary projects. Involved in typography and motion type for stage (type stage settings for contemporary string quartet performances). She organizes international design workshops, conferences, and exhibitions on typography and information design (President of the Polish ATypI committee, 2016).

Jan Piechota (Warsaw)

Jan Piechota is a visual communication designer. He studied graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, where he found a passion for information design, typography, and research. In 2008 he graduated MA course. In 2017 he graduated doctoral studies at the same academy. Jan has created custom and retail books, visual identities, information design projects and collaborates with researchers, designers, artists. He teaches typography, visual information, and design process management at the Bachelor and MA course at Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw (PJAIT).

Marjatta Itkonen (Helsinki)

Itkonen graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and did her MA degree at Henryk Tomaszewski’s poster studio. She was a founder and a designer at Studio Viiva design agency for three decades. She was a professor of visual communication at Aalto University, School of Art, Design and Architecture 2004–2015. Her special interests are visual communication and social design. She has participated in many national and international poster events; being a jury member in Mexico and Warsaw also provided in social design poster workshops in France, Germany, Mexico, Slovenia, Poland and Belgium.