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Aalto University (Finland)

Tarja Nieminen

Tarja Nieminen is an artist and designer. After graduating from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, she pursued further studies in photography and film in Czech Republic and the US. She has been a lecturer of visual communication design in Media Department at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture of the Aalto University since year 2007. Before that, she served ten years as a Head of the Graphic Design Department at the Institute of Design in Lahti University of Applied Sciences. In her educational work, she has strongly focused on developing curricula related to dynamic media and international cooperation. For the past twenty-five years, her practice has included free-lance design work in visual communication as well as fine arts activity in Europe and in the US.

Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (Czech Republic)

Petr Babák

Graphic designer, pedagogue and publicist. In 1996 he graduated at the Studio of Book Editing and Type Design (Prof. Jan Solpera) at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. In 1997, together with Tomáš Machek, he founded the Machek & Babák Studio, and since 2003 he has run his own graphic studio Laboratoř. Since 2005 he has been the head of the Graphic Design and New Media Studio at the AAAD in Prague, where he earned the academic title of Professor in 2016.

Martin Ponec

Graphic designer. He studied Theory of Art and Culture at Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno. In 2018, he also graduated at the Studio of Graphic Design and New Media at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Between 2014 and 2015, he studied at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Since 2019, he works as an assistant at Studio of Graphic Design and New Media at the AAAD in Prague.

Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Radovan Jenko

Professor, communication designer, illustrator, skier... In 1981, Jenko obtained a master’s degree in poster art under Professor Henryk Tomaszewski and in painting under Professor Teresa Pągowska at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1991 he started to teach Visual Communications at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts, holding the position of full professor since 2004. Selected awards: Eight Brumen Awards at Brumen Biennial of Slovenian Design. (2003 – 2017), Grand Prix at International Triennial of Stage Poster Sofia (2016), Silver Award at Ecuador Poster Biennial (2016), 1st Award at CIIPE, Fort Collins (2015), 3rd Prize at International Biennial of Theatre Poster Rzeszow (2015), 3rd Prize at International Red Cross, Venezuela (2013), Silver Award at Toyama Poster Triennial (2012), 1st Award at ZGRAF Zagreb (2012), 1st Award at 4th Block-Eco Poster Triennial Kiev (2006), Silver Cube at Art Directors Club New York (1991), Slovene National Award (1991). Jenko is a member of the AGI, Alliance Graphique Internationale.

Berlin University of the Arts (Germany)

Gosia Warrink

Gosia Warrink studied linguistics in Warsaw, followed by visual communication at Berlin University of the Arts. She founded the design studio AMBERDESIGN and the publishing company AMBERPRESS. Warrink is author and designer of ICOON, the bestselling picture dictionary. In 2015, she launched the charity project ICOON for refugees – a free dictionary book & app for refugees and helpers. Since 2016 she teaches design at Berlin University of the Arts, researching for her PhD on „Universal language“.

ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering (Spain)

Roger Paez

PhD architect, professor and researcher. Professional experience in the studios of Alison+Peter Smithson and Enric Miralles. Founder of AiB (www.aib.cat). Architectural design professor at ETSALS, research leader and MEATS director at ELISAVA (meats.elisava.net), guest professor at universities worldwide. Author of Critical Prison Design (Actar 2014) and Operative Mapping (Actar 2019). Works at the intersection of design, architecture and the city, focusing on experimentation and social impact.

Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny de València (Spain)

Elisabet Rodríguez-Flores Imbernón

Graduated in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (1999). Her professional career as a graphic designer began in 1996, after working for various studios, she founded Estudio Kikuru, one of the pioneering graphic design studios in motion graphics in Valencia. Since 2013 she works as teacher at the Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny in València, Spain.

Maria Navarro Diego

Graduated in fine arts at UPV (1999). She was working as a cultural manager and animation film programmer for Spanish film festivals and film libraries. Member of the expert committee at the Ministry of Culture in Spain (2006-2007). She took master studies of cultural management at the Cardenal Herrera-CEU San Pablo University (2005-2006) and a Master’s Degree in design at Cardenal University Herrera-CEU San Pablo, Valencia (2008-2009). Since 2007 she works as a project teacher at the ISEACV Higher Schools of Art and Design, specializing in product design. At EASD Alcoi (Alicante) she developed a social design project: l'ecojoguet al Marroc, designing toys from waste materials; she obtained an educational innovation award for its realization in Morocco 2010. The project was replicated in Costa Rica 2014. Since 2012 she also teaches at the Product Design Department of EASD Valencia.

Escola Superior de Artes e Design (Portugal)

Sérgio Correia

Sérgio Correia (Porto, 1980) is a communication designer and lecturer. Graduated in Communication Design at ESAD - College of Art and Design (Portugal) he researches typography and interactive systems under the Master’s Degree, and has recently obtained the Specialist Title in Graphic Design, at Polytechnic Institute of Tomar. He has been a lecturer at ESAD since 2003. As a graphic designer he is the co-founder of Asymmetric Studio (2005), a multidisciplinar design company, TINA (2013) a studio that questions pre-established ideals, teasing an audience through ephemeral or permanent urban interventions, ironically signed as This Is Not America, and D-VINE (2014) focusing on identity of wines and packaging. Awards from Bolivia to Taiwan, Ecuador, USA, Poland, France, with emphasis on the Graphis Silver Award (2018) and the Communication Arts Award of Excellence (2018, 2019).

Esteban Gonzales independent project (Colombia)

Esteban González Jiménez

Professor of political philosophy at the Pontifical Bolivarian University of Medellin (Colombia) and researcher attached to the research Groups of Critical Studies (Medellín), Mondes Caraïbes et transatlantiques en mouvement (CNRS/FMSH, France) and the action-research institute "dix-milliards-humains" (Paris). Experienced on social quantitative and qualitative research he has worked with victims and ex-combattants of the colombian armed conflict with the aim of finding actions and expressions for the construction of alternative and possible futures.

ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

Hubert Klumpner

Since 2010 Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at ETH Zurich. After studying architecture at the Angewandte in Vienna under Hans Hollein, and a MAS in urban planning at Columbia University, NYC, he founded the NGO Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) in Caracas in 1998 together with A. Brillembourg. Since 2019 he has been solely responsible for Urban-Think Tank with a growing young team in Medellín, Zurich and Eichham near Salzburg.

Michael Walczak

Since 2017, Michael has been working on his doctorate between ETH Zurich and the Angewandte in Vienna, and is responsible for digital technologies and decision making at Urban-Think Tank Next. Michael is teaching at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland in Basel and completed his studies in architecture at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, Stanford University and the Bremen University of Applied Sciences.

Helen Hemlyn Institute – Royal Academy of Arts (UK)

Rama Gheerawo

Rama Gheerawo is an international and inspirational figure within design. He is a serial innovator in the fields of Inclusive Design, Design Thinking and Creative Leadership having personally led over 100 projects working internationally with governments, business, academia and the third sector. He won a ‘Hall of Fame’ award for his work at the Design Week Awards in 2019 and was named a 2018 Creative Leaders by Creative Review alongside Paul Smith and Björk, Empathy is at the heart of his practice. As Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, he uses design to address society’s toughest issues from ageing and healthcare, to ability and diversity. He looks at how to instigate positive change in individuals and organisations through personal research in Creative Leadership, with workshops delivered globally to thousands of people including 700 civil servants. He is in high demand as a keynote speaker, and writes, curates exhibitions and runs workshops for audiences that range from students to business executives. Rama sits on a number of advisory boards and committees for awards, universities and organisations such as the UK Design Council, The International Association for Universal Design, UX India, the Design Management Institute and the Design Intelligence Awards. He has worked as a Visiting Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Katowice Academy of Fine Art.

Hochschule Mainz (Germany)

Marcus Pretnar

Prof. Markus Pretnar studied architecture at the Technical University Darmstadt. After one year as freelance designer in Warsaw/Poland and several cooperations (MMZ-Architects, Designafairs, Escape-Germany etc.) he joined the inter-disciplinary design team 3deluxe in Wiesbaden. Here, the overlapping of genres has shaped his attitude in the training of future interior designers: In a team of specialists from different fields, interior designers are the experts for space, atmosphere and materials, and as such they have to assert themselves.

Hogeschool PXL (Belgium)

Ann Bessemans

Prof. Dr. Ann Bessemans is a legibility expert and award-winning graphic and type designer. She founded the READSEARCH legibility research group at the PXL-MAD School of Arts and Hasselt University where she teaches typography and type design. Ann is the program director of the international Master program ‘Reading Type & Typography’. Ann received her PhD from Leiden University and Hasselt University under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerard Unger. She is a member of the Young Academy of Belgium and lecturer at the Plantin Institute of Typography.

María Pérez-Mena

Dr. María Pérez-Mena is an awarded graphic and type designer and post-doctoral design researcher at READSEARCH at the PXL-MAD School of Arts and Hasselt University, where she focuses her research activity on legibility and reading studies from the perspective of type design. María received her PhD with honours from the University of Basque Country. María is part of the teaching staff of the international Master program ‘Reading Type & Typography’ and teaches typography and type design at the PXL-MAD School of Arts.

Carl Haase

Carl Haase is a graphic designer and publisher based in Antwerp. A recent researcher of the Jan van Eyck Academie with a focused on furthering the inquiry about our shared designed surroundings. Currently a PhD candidate within the ARIA program at the University of Antwerpen under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Pascal Gielen, researching how we visualise language. Carl is part of the teaching staff for both the international Master program ‘Reading Type & Typography’, the standard master design program and teaches editorial design at the PXL-MAD School of Arts.

Institute of Art, Design + Technology (Ireland)

Clyde Doyle

Clyde Doyle is a lecturer in design and Co-Chair of the MA Design for Change at the IADT. His professional career since 1995 has spanned a variety of creative industries; industrial design, model making/rapid prototyping, fine art fabrication and production design for film, TV and theatre . Currently engaged in his PhD in Design at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) he is developing non-anthropocentric design methodologies with the aim of facilitating ecological design practice.

Shirley Casey

Shirley Casey is a lecturer on the Visual Communication Design programme, recognised by Domus magazine as one of the top 25 Graphic Design programmes in Europe, and co-chair of the MA in Design for Change at IADT, a programme run in collaboration with the Institute without Boundaries (IwB) at George Brown College in Toronto. She has taught spatial design for over a decade with a focus on experiential graphic design facilitating several industry projects with a variety of government, cultural, educational and sporting organisations. She previously specialised in packaging design and retail branding for a broad range of Irish and international clients.

Kharkov Academy of Design and Arts (Ukraine)

Nadiia Velichko

Nadiia Velichko works as a graphic designer since 2006, and since 2017 she has been a lecturer and graduate student at Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts. Since 2014 she is a volunteer and participant of the International Triennial of Environmental Poster 4th Block. She is working on her dissertation "Interactivity as a Factor in Forming the Design of Children's Educational Books" (scientific adviser Professor Sbitneva Nadiia), participates in forums, discussions and conferences, has articles in professional publications in design and art. Participant and winner of many national and international competitions.

La Factoría (Ecuador)

María-Mercedes Salgado Vejarano

Since 1990 worked with newspapers in Ecuador, France, Poland and Granma in Cuba. In Paris 98 began a collaboration with Le Monde redefining its infographic style, until 2006 acted as art director. She founded in 2010 with George Haffner “La Factoría” in the coast of Ecuador, structure created for hosting students and local artisans for creative workshops. Invited to address since 2005 workshops in Paris, speaker at Media Summit Design Mexico, jury at Mexico and Bolivia Poster Biennials. Teacher at the “Universidad de las Artes” in Guayaquil where she also developed its visual identity.

Massey University College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwhārangi (New Zealand)

Matthew Clapham

Born in 1971, Matt studied Visual Communication Design at Wellington Polytechnic's School of Design. With over 25 years of experience as a practising designer to draw on, his work ranges from brand identity and editorial design to packaging and stamp design. Matt is currently a lecturer at Massey University’s College of Creative Arts where he teaches across all four years of the Bachelor of Design programme. He teaches a wide range of subjects including typography, graphic design and branding however he is particularly passionate about posters, poster design and the role of the poster as a voice for change.

Namseoul University (South Korea)

Byoungil Sun

Byoungil-Sun was Born in 1958, in Korea. He is a graphic designer based in Seoul. Since 1995, he has been a professor in Visual Information Design at Namseoul University. He is a graduate of Visual Communication Design in Hongik University, where he receiving his Master’s degree in 2005 (Ph., D. degree in Arts). Byoungil-Sun has been awarded various prizes such as the Presidential Award for his contribution to the development of design at the Government of the Republic of Korea, the Minister of Education and the Minister of Industry Award at the International Awards Golden Bee of Graphis in Taiwan, Red dot, China-Italy design week, Gdie, Ekoplakt, Information war, World without violence, Reggae Poster Contest, Mandela Poster Project, Poster for tomorrow and 160 int'l selections with posters.

Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (Poland)

Ewa Satelecka

Ewa Satalecka is Professor at Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technologies in Warsaw and leader of its motion typography class. She represents Poland on the international forum of ATypI (International Typo-graphy Association). Satalecka organizes international design workshops, conferences, and exhibitions of typography and information design. Her work includes kinetic typography installations presented at the “Liquid Page” Symposium in Britain's Tate (2008) and as a part of the international “Moving Type” Exhibition in the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany (2011). Edited by Satalecka: MOTYF2013, MOTYF2014, Fajrant (available on issuu, prized TDC 2012 certificate). Her articles were included in Very Graphic: Polish designers of the 20th Century, edited by Jacek Mrowczyk, (IAM, 2015) and 365xtypo: 365 stories on type, typography, and graphic design, edited by Linda Kudrnovska(Etapes, 2015).

Marjatta Itkonen

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.

Jan Piechota

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 on 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). His work has been honored by the Polish Society of Book Publishers and Zamek Cieszyn.

RANEPA Design School (Russia)

Serge Serov

Graduated from the Moscow technical University in 1974 and the Repin Institute in 1986. Organizer and curator of more than 100 exhibitions. He is the author of 14 monographs and more than 500 articles. President of the Moscow international Biennale “Golden bee”. Academician of the Academy of graphic design. Representative of Russia in the international Council of graphic design associations ICOGRADA and the IBCC. Founder and head of the Higher academic school of graphic design. Professor at RANEPA Design School.

Katerina Terekhova

Graduated from Higher academic school of graphic design. Teacher, head of creative workshops "Treshki" and "Terki", Art Director, assistant of the Head of the Department of the School of Design Ranepa. Curator of the exhibitions "Plein air design", "Sounds and signs" and "Phantasmagoria" at the Marat Gelman gallery in Budva (Montenegro, 2018, 2019), "Beautiful Frankfurt" at the European school of design (Germany, 2019) and "(Not)really in the CCA Winzavod (2019).

Rhode Island School of Design (USA)

Thomas Wedell

Thomas Wedell works with his wife Nancy Skolos to diminish the boundaries between graphic design and photography. They create complex graphic design that is influenced by modern painting, technology, and architecture. The two have spent decades analyzing the unique characteristics of words and imagesand setting them in motion to fuse narrative with sensation. With a home/studio in Providence, Rhode Island, they balance their commitments to professional practice and teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design. Skolos and Wedell received the 2017 AIGA Medal and have been recognized in international Poster Biennials and Triennials with work included in the graphic design collections of museums worldwide. They have authored two books: Type, Image, Message and Graphic Design Process.

Sint Lucas Antwerpen School of Arts (Belgium)

Frederik De Bleser

Frederik De Bleser is a PhD researcher and professor at the Sint Lucas School of Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. His research focuses on the link between art and technology, developing free software tools for generative design, data visualisation and creative AI. He co-founded the Experimental Media Research Group (EMRG) in 2004. He coordinates the new master in Digital Media Data starting in 2020-2021. Using NodeBox as a tool he has organised data visualisation workshops in France, Italy, Finland, Poland, Lithuania and Canada. His open-source work is included in tools and applications reaching millions of people. He has worked commercially creating visualisations for one of the largest Belgian newspapers and an interactive art installation for the Research Foundation Flanders. In his free time he is a coach for Hack Your Future, organizing and teaching web development to refugees.

Stellenbosch University (RPA)

Mieke van der Merwe

Mieke van der Merwe is a lecturer at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and teaches in the fields of Digital Production, Illustration and Design. She completed her BA in Visual Communication Design (2010) and a MA Visual Arts (2015) at Stellenbosch University and is currently in the proses of starting her PhD in Children’s book illustration. Mieke, furthermore works as a freelance illustrator for local and international clients in the children’s book, magazine and corporate industry. She also published her own adult colouring book, Beautiful South Africa in 2016.

Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy)

Susanna Cerri

Professional Associate Senior Communication Designer of AIAP Italian Association of Visual Communication Design. Professor of Communication Design at the master's degree in Design and the Master of Documentation and Management of Cultural Heritage of the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence. Creative Director of the DidaCommunication Lab, I conduct educational activities for students, organize communication activities and I also conduct consultation in projects for development and innovation made by the Architecture Department. I have focused my research on social design issues by forging international collaborations that have generated significant results including the scientific responsibility of the project "Migrant identity, Signs for a new geography of hospitality" presented in Paris during the "Inscriptions en relations. Des traces coloniales aux expressions plurielles". I participated in the Université Euromediterranéenne project in Fès, attending the creation of the identity and communication project of the EM-ADU Ecole Euromediterranéenne d 'Architecture Design et d'Urbanisme de Fès (Morocco). I received the Honorary Mention in the AWDA - Aiap Women in Design Award international competition as Head of the DidaPress editorial project, Department of Architecture, University of Florence.

University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria)

Brigitte Felderer

Curator, head of department “Social Design-Arts as Urban Innovation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her projects focus on themes within the field of cultural history and technology and have been shown internationally.

University of Cyprus (Cyprus)

Socrates Stratis

Socrates Stratis is a PhD Architect, Urbanist, Associate Professor, at the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus. Socrates’ research focuses on the political agencies of architecture in conflictual plus uncertain spaces, supporting the urban commons. His is the main founder of AA & U. He is the editor of the “Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces”, jovis, 2016, and the curator of the Cyprus participation in 15 th Venice Biennale of Architecture, (www.contestedfronts.org). (www.socratesstratis.com, www.aaplusu.com )

University of Niš (Serbia)

Petar Mitković

PhD Petar Mitković is a Full Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Niš and chief of the Chair of Urban and Spatial Planning. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade and acquired his PhD degree in field of architecture and urban planning. He is a member of Engineering Chamber, National Scientific Committee for traffic, urban planning and construction, and member of Scientific Committees for several International Conferences.

Milena Dinić-Branković

PhD Milena Dinić-Branković, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Niš, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, at the Chair of Urban and Spatial Planning. Her research focuses on urban design of residential and central zones of urban/rural settlements, and their public open spaces. She published over 50 papers and two books. She is a Fellow of the Junior Faculty Development Program and a member of Scientific Committees of several international conferences.

Milica Igić

Milica Igić is a Teaching Assistant at the University of Niš, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture and a PhD candidate at Chair of Urban and Spatial Planning. Her scientific, pedagogic and professional focus has been in the fields of urban and spatial planning. Her current research is oriented towards climate change, rural areas and renewable energy sources. She is a member of the Organizing Committee of two International Conferences and one International Exhibition.

Mihailo Mitković

Mihailo Mitković is teaching Assistant at the University of Niš, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, PhD candidate at Chair of Urban and Spatial Planning. He received several scholarships during the studies, his professional and scientific improvement is achieved through participation in numerous workshops and courses in the field of architecture, urban planning and design. His mainly research is focused towards: renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, solar power, rural areas.

University of West Attica (Greece)

Eleni Martini

Eleni Martini is a lecturer in the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication at the Faculty of Applied Arts and Culture of the University of West Attica, Athens. She holds BA / Department of Graphic Design, TEI Athens and MA in Electronic Graphics, Coventry University, UK. Scholar of the State Scholarships Foundation, for undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Working experience at magazine and advertising companies and as an independent designer. Teaching since 1994, Visual Identity and Communication Design of Messages and Information, Social and Advertising Campaign and Branding. She participated in a number of international educational projects, workshops and exhibitions, and gave lectures in conferences. Her research interests focus on graphic design history, teaching methodologies, activism and Types’ impact in everyday life.

Rossetos Metzitakos

Born and raised in Athens. Graduated the Department of Graphic Design (1996) of Technological Institute of Athens. Master of Arts in Visual Communication Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (1998) and PhD in Research Design (2006). He worked as research Associate in Graphic Design since 2001 and since 2009 as Assistant Professor in Multimedia Graphic Design. Principal member of the Research, Design, Interior Architecture and Audiovisual Research Laboratory of the School of Applied Arts and Culture, as well as the Postgraduate Program in Intelligent Packaging. He is in charge and the creator of the Multimedia Graphic Design Lab (2006). He has participated in scientific conferences as a speaker and has published papers in conference proceedings. Specializing in web design, he has designed among others websites, the University of West Attica website as well as University’s’ logo.

Sofia Mytilinaiou

Sofia Mytilinaiou is an experienced graphic and UI designer, passionate about innovative ideas and valuable design experiences. She holds a PhD in Cultural Technology and Communication as Scholar of the Greek Scholarship Foundation, as well as an MSc degree in Cultural Informatics (University of the Aegean, Greece). Her research work has been published in international conferences and books related to Interaction and User Experience Design in Mixed Reality Environments. She is currently working as a freelance graphic, and UI/UX designer, and is also teaching young designers to create memorable digital experiences and printed design at University of West Attica (Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication).

Wrexham Glyndwr University (UK)

Wulf Livingston

Wulf is currently a Reader in Social Sciences at Glyndwr University and registered practicing social worker. His formative experiences have been gained in both governmental and voluntary sector agencies, working predominantly with alcohol, drugs and mental health. Wulf has since the acquisition of his PhD, actively undertaking research and published on these topics, with regards to policy and practice research implications. He is currently chair of the British Association of Social Workers Alcohol and other Drugs group and co-editor of Practice journal. He has passion for good food, running up mountains and windswept beaches.

Exhibition

Venue

PROM Kultury Saska Kępa

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