Pavla Pauknerová, Ph.D.
Associate Lecturer
Pavla is a design theoretician and critic who lectures on the MA Future Design programme at PCU. She graduated with a degree specialising in the theory and history of design and new media at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Her MA thesis was on 'Things Unseen, the Impact of Digital Technologies on Product Design and Material Culture'. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Communications and Mass Media from the University of New York in Prague, where she wrote her thesis 'Visual Identity Systems of Art Museums and Galleries'. In 2017 she completed her doctoral studies in 2017 at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where her research' Escaping the Flatland' focused on data visualisation and open modalities of information-seeking behaviour.
Pavla has also contributed as a curator and editor to: There and Back: Contemporary Design, Architecture and Urbanism (2015), the anniversary exhibition UMPRUM ATTACK! at the Trade Fair Palace of the National Gallery in Prague (2016), to the exhibition of student works Prague Calling as part of the Vienna Design Week festival (2016), the exhibition The Library: Books and eBooks, Collections and Databases (2018), Baoabc at the Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen (2020) or the exhibition Design & Transformation. Stories of Czech Design 1990–2020 for the Design Museum Brussels (2023). In collaboration with graphic designer Richard Jaroš, she composed the publication Nejen kruhy. Vizuální přístupy v zobrazování dat a informací (2017). Between 2017 and 2018, she was member of the jury in The Most Beautiful Czech Book competition, and in 2018 she was the head of the committee of the 28th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno.
Education
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, CZ — Doctor's Degree
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, CZ — Master of Arts (MgA.)
University of New York in Prague — Bachelor of Arts
Professional Activities
2016–2018 — Scholastika Higher School of Visual Communication in Prague, Lecturer
2011–2016 — Sotheby's Auction House, Prague Administrator
Research & Creative Practice
Selected Exhibitions:
2020 - BAOABC. How and why a book for children is created (together with Juraj Horváth), West Bohemian Gallery in Pilsen.
2018 - Library. Volumes and digitals, collections and databases (together with Lada Hubatová-Vacková), UM Gallery, Prague.
2016 - UMPRUM Prague Calling (together with Petr Krejzek), Vienna Design Week, Vienna.
2016 - UMPRUM Attack! Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts in Prague (together with Petr Krejzek, Iva Knobloch and Lukáš Fišárek), Trade Fair Palace of the National Gallery in Prague.
2015 - There and back. Contemporary design, architecture and urbanism (together with Lada Hubatová-Vacková and Cyril Říha), UM Gallery, Prague.
Selected Published Works:
Lada Hubatová-Vacková – Pavla Pauknerová (eds.), Library. Volumes and digitized files, collections and databases, Prague, 2018.
Richard Jaroš – Pavla Pauknerová (eds.), Not only circles. Visual approaches in displaying data and information , Prague, 2017.
Lukáš Fišárek – Iva Knobloch – Petr Krejzek – Pavla Pauknerová (eds.), UMPRUM Attack! , Prague, 2016.
Lada Hubatová-Vacková – Pavla Pauknerová – Cyril Říha (eds.), Back and forth – Contemporary design, architecture and urbanism, Prague, 2015.
Selected Text in Journals, Catalogues:
Pavla Pauknerová, Transformation of design, transformation by design. Changes in the field in the context of digitization, datafication and other technological changes, in: Daniela Kramerová (ed.), Design and transformation. The story of Czech design 1990-2020 , Prague – Brno 2022, pp. 26-29.
Pavla Pauknerová, Prusa Research, in: Daniela Kramerová (ed.), Design and transformation. The story of Czech design 1990-2020 , Prague – Brno 2022, p. 112.
Pavla Pauknerová, Amanita Design, in: Daniela Kramerová (ed.), Design and transformation. The Story of Czech Design 1990-2020 , Prague – Brno 2022, p. 118.
Pavla Pauknerová, Transformation of Design, Transformation by Design. Transformations of the Field in the Context of Digitalization, Datafication and other Technological Changes, in: Daniela Kramerová (ed.), Design and Transformation. Stories of Czech Design 1990-2020 , Prague – Brno 2022, pp. 26-29.
