High on the list of the School of Art and Design’s attributes is the depth of knowledge and practical experience of its faculty. Many are practising artists and graphic designers as well as teachers and researchers. This not only gives us a window into the professional world; it also injects a particular creative passion into every project we undertake.
Vít is an award-winning visual designer with extensive international experience. After graduating from UMPRUM in Prague, he advanced his education at SVA in New York, honing his skills at studios like Pentagram under Paula Scher, R/GA, and We Are Collins.
James is a lecturer in the school of Art and Design at Prague City University. He teaches design theory, research and writing on the Graphic Design and Fine Art & Experimental Media courses across year groups from first to final.
Adrian has been a lecturer at Prague City University since 2017.
He works as a teacher, freelance designer, painter and also has a successful musical career winning the Apollo award for best album in 2013. Adrian recently completed MA Fine Art at Prague City University.
Viktor teaches Advanced Digital Design Studies at Prague City University.
He studied IT, Medial and Didactic Illustration, Multimedia design in applied arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Prague and is currently a Doctoral candidate in new media and film.
Jana Krchová is an independent designer and art director working with cultural institutions and private businesses on the full scope of their design projects.
Dean of the School of Art & Design
MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University
BA, James Madison University
Principal Lecturer
Programme Leader
Associate Lecturer
Sandra is a multidisciplinary designer with a focus on collaborative projects in the scope of branding, art direction, creating sustainable brand visuals and devising comprehensive production plans.
As a passion, she focuses on cross cultural visuals, exploring what it means to be a third culture kid through design and how design has impacted generational cultures.
Education
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Teesside University
Associate Dean of the School of Art and Design
From 2011 to 2014 Ondřej designed visual campaigns for the NGO Automat, including ‘Do práce na kole’ (Bike to Work) and ‘Zažít město jinak’ (Different City Experience). He was responsible for the re-design of the Czech ethnological journal, Český Lid. At Prague City University, Ondřej works with students on live projects focusing on local clients.
Professionally Ondřej focuses on book design and visual identities. Ondřej has collaborated with Czech publishers Slon, Akropolis and Albatros, and developed the visual style of the audiobook label Tympanum.
Ondřej studied Printing and Graphic Design at Prague Graphic School, and Cultural Studies and Ethnology at Charles University. Ondřej also has a BA in Graphic Design and an MA in Future Design from Teesside University.
BA (Hons), Teesside University
MA Future Design, Teesside University
Programme Leader
John Hill is an artist, curator and writer, with a BA in drawing from Camberwell College, University of the Arts London.
As a founding member of the collective LuckyPDF, he has had work exhibited internationally and been commissioned by major UK institutions, including Hayward Gallery and Frieze Foundation. In 2017 he led the Studio of the Visiting Artist at AVU, the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague and curated their 2019 Diploma show Nejkrásnější věk. In 2020 he was invited to host the Student Forum at Berlin's transmediale festival.
His writing has appeared In Frieze Magazine, PARSE Journal, Artalk and Camera Austria International.
He has completed a PhD in Fine Art, which explores artistic collaboration inspired by cybernetics and network technology. His studies were undertaken with LJMU's Uses of Art group, a partner of the L’Internationale museum network.
Education
PhD Fine Art Theory and Practice, Liverpool John Moores University
BA (Hons) Drawing (first class), Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London
Programme Leader
Franco graduated in 1999 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna (Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna) specializing in painting, and has been living and working in Prague since 2008. His most recent solo exhibitions were ‘Grand Tour’ - murals for the Main Station in Prague (2019); and ‘Badabam’ at the Galleria PaggeriArte di Sassuolo in Modena (2018).
He has also participated in multiple collective exhibitions, including ‘Mixed Messages’ (French Institute in Prague, 2016) and ‘Sketch’, an outdoor installation for Nadace Nieuwe Helden in Brussels.
Education
MFA, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna
Associate Lecturer
Christophe attended the Fine Art Academy of Marseille, from where he graduated in 2005 with a Masters degree. After the creation of a number of films, video installations and participation in exhibitions, the French electronic artist Dominik Barbier offered Christophe the chance to work with him in his professional editing studio, Fearless, in Marseille. His role was as editor and artistic adviser.
He has been working in Prague since April 2006 with CIANT (Center for International Arts and New Technologies), as a cameraman and video editor and has also been teaching audio visual techniques and related subjects since then.
MFA, Fine Art Academy of Marseille
Principal Lecturer
Pascal has a degree in Cinema from the University of Sorbonne III, as well as DNAP (National Art Degree) and DNSAP (National Superior Art Degree) from the Academy of Art in Aix-en-Provence. He is a multimedia artist who specializes in developing interdisciplinary projects around the interaction between real and virtual environments.
Since 2002, he has been director of LIBAT - a French centre for new and emerging technologies; and in 2006 became Course Leader for Interactive Media at Prague City University. Since 2007, Pascal has developed a series of in-situ workshops at Prague City University, Meta.IDs – Interactive Digital Storytelling, proposing a collaborative experience, inviting artists, students and technological experts to work in an Interactive Media experimental and sensitive environment.
Pascal creates interactive 3D environments, experimental interfaces, intuitive navigation systems, shared 3D environments and communities, multimedia platforms distributed on the Internet, 2D and 3D animations, videos and robotic interactive sculptures.
Some of the various performances, installations and international network projects he has worked on over the past years include: Zona, Virtual Port-Saint-Louis, Virtual Palac Akropolis, e-Galab, e-Radnice, e-Agora, ETUDE, Underground City XXI, Underground Landscape, Tchouri, Polibek, Udoli.
BA, University of Sorbonne
DNAP, Ecole d'art d'Aix-en-provence
DNSAP, Ecole d'art d'Aix-en-provence
Programme Leader
Sean McAlorum has been teaching and coordinating programmes here at PCU for a number of years. Before his current role, he set up the Foundation Diploma in Art & Design Programme at PCU.
Prior to teaching, Sean spent over twenty years working as a full-time designer in the fields of both magazine publishing and advertising. In publishing, he worked at Future Publishing in Bath, whilst in London he worked for a number of years on a well established independent consumer title called Which? Sean specialised in re-designing the titles and hence spent time coordinating with editors and writers to achieve these goals. Sean then decided he required an adventure, which continues to this day, and continued his publishing career here in Prague on a title called Quo, which subsequently won the best Czech magazine of the year in 2000.
Whilst in Prague, Sean switched to the field of advertising, which had held a fascination for him since a child. At Leo Burnett, Sean won local awards, a Golden Watch at the Golden Drum Advertising Festival in Portoroz, Slovenia and helped the agency win the Agency of the Year at the same festival for two consecutive years. Sean also worked at Ark Thompson, which later became JWT. Whilst in adverting his clients have included Fiat, Nestlé, Unilever, Gambrinus, Kraft, Mazda and ČSOB.
Latterly Sean, has been focused upon the setting up, coordination of and refreshment of modules on the graphic design programme. He prides himself on being a hands on and approachable programme leader for both the lecturers and the students, He always strives for the best experience for all and teaching on a number of modules, himself, helps Sean to connect with the students and he loves watching them grow into confident designers and people.
Recently Sean also challenged himself, by a return to education, by studying an MA in Fine Art, with a focus on oil painting. Now graduated, he is actively pursuing painting, which started with an exhibition through the summer entitled an “Invitation to Bear Witness” in his local village on the outskirts of Prague. Sean looks forward to balancing his lecturing with a parallel career as an artist…
Education
BA (Hons) in Graphic Design awarded by Leeds Metropolitan University
MA in Fine Art from Teesside University
Associate Lecturer
Olena is a mixed-media illustrator and graphic designer, who’s focusing on creating brands, sustainable packaging, illustrations and experimentation with different crafts and styles of animation.
Associate Lecturer
Sasha studied academic disciplines such as figural drawing and painting back in Russia, and then continued her education in Prague with interactive graphics at Vaclav Hollar, exploring the fields of graphic design, animation, 3d, and programming.
Her short animated film Happiness was chosen for the student competition and was shown as part of the international animation festival ANIfest in 2012.
After graduating, she dedicated herself to working in graphic design, focusing on Packaging design in particular. She worked on designs for Nestle, Kofola, Pilsner Urquell, Bageterie Boulevard amongst others. In 2016 she worked on the redesign of Misa ice cream - a classic brand which hadn’t change their designs for 30 years.
In 2018 she decided to dedicate herself fully to illustration, which has been her passion for many years, working on commissions for corporate and private clients. She took part in Prague's Lustr illustration festival in October 2018.
Her illustrations combine analogue and digital mediums. Her favourite techniques include collage, paper cut, hand drawn and hand printed textures, physically made and then digitally post-produced.
Get to know her work at www.instagram.com/graphicseasy
Education
DiS in Interactive Graphics, High School of Vaclav Hollar
Associate Lecturer
Andrea is a founder of the visual research platform Fresh Eye and works in the fields of visual culture studies, memory studies and visual sociology. Her research work has been published in Life Writings and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and in Historiography of National Leaders: Symbolic Representations in School Textbooks from Around the World (2017).
She has translated Berger’s Ways of Seeing and co-translated Mitchell’s Picture Theory to Czech. She has attended several international conferences (e.g. in NYC, Cardiff, Valencia or Wroclaw) and lectured at Columbia University, New York University and the Pratt Institute.
In 2013 she received a fellowship from the Georg Eckert Institute, and was awarded a three-year research grant from Charles University, which was devoted to her doctoral research on the visual culture of modern and contemporary history education.
Andrea received her PhD from the Department of Sociology at Charles University in Prague, and, in addition to being a lecturer at PCU, is also an Associate Lecturer at Charles University (Institute of Communication Studies).
She is also a researcher at the Czech National Film Archive and at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.
From August 2015 until February 2016 Andrea was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at New York University, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, and at the Pratt Institute School of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts, in the programme of Critical and Visual Studies.
PhD, Charles University
MA, Charles University
BA, Charles University
Associate Lecturer
Anetta works across a variety of media including video, performance and site-specific installations, often employing language in her practice. Her works and collaborative projects have been exhibited widely in numerous institutions across the world, from Art in General New York, n.b.k. Berlin, MoCA Miami, MuMoK Vienna, The Power Plant Toronto, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt to Taipei Biennale, Moscow Biennale and the 54th Venice Biennale among many others.
Anetta received her Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, currently she is enrolled in her PhD program at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. In her art she is seeking for a way of bringing forth the sensible, the material and immaterial nature of reality interrogating our habits of perception and underscoring the provisional nature of our understanding of the world around us.
Master of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava
Associate Lecturer
George Cremaschi is a composer, musician, performer, curator and teacher.
In a 25-year international career he has worked with, and composed for, a long list of fantastic dancers, installation artists, improvisers, poets, filmmakers, folk musicians, theatre groups, orchestras, rock bands and pop divas.
As a teacher he has lectured and led workshops at Mills College in Oakland, California, Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden, Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Prague, JAMU in Brno, HAMU in Prague (in both the music and dance departments) and from 2011 is a lecturer in film sound at FAMU in Prague.
Associate Lecturer
Associate Lecturer
Marie Doucet is a French product and environment designer based in Prague.
Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2005 in Design Products, since September 2012 she has been an Associate Lecturer at Prague City University and the Czech Technical University.
Marie also works as an independent consultant for architecture studios and manufacturers. She combines projects for the industry with personal research at the boundary between art and design.
Education
PhD, Visual Communication, Faculty of Art and Design UJEP, Ústí nad Labem
MA, Royal College of Art, London
Associate Lecturer
Palo Fabus is a critic and theorist.
He received Bc in applied informatics from the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno, and MA from the Department of Media Studies and Journalism FSS MU Brno.
In 2004-2005 he was the editor-in-chief of IM6 magazine. He was curator of Zoom festival in 2005 and 2006. He worked as an editor of Literární noviny between 2005-2008. He co-founded Jlbjlt in 2007. He taught Social Media course at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism at Masaryk University in Brno and gave guest lectures at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brno, University of Technology Brno, FAMU Prague, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Since 2009 Palo is an editor of Umělec magazine and since 2011 he has been rge editor-in-chief. Currently, he teaches at the Centre of Audiovisual Studies, FAMU, and in the MA Fine Art programme at Prague City University.
His interest in new media has evolved into research of wider contemporary art from the perspective of sociology, media ecology and philosophy. His research centers these days mostly on the relationship of ICT and the human condition.
Education
Bc Applied Informatics, Masaryk University
MA Media Studies and Journalism, Masaryk University
Associate Lecturer
Jakub Grosz is a Czech multimedia artist primarily concerned with light behaviour in interactive systems, video, and scanography. Issues such as complexity, chaos, and relativity of perception play a major role in his experimental works, often involving fractal structures, light, and laser set-ups as well as a wide range of transparent materials.
Since 2009, Jakub has been working on European interdisciplinary projects in the LIBAT laboratory. In 2011, Jakub completed the BA (Hons) Fine Art Experimental Media programme at Prague City University.
Education
MA Fine Art, Teesside University
BA (Hons), Teesside University
Associate Lecturer
Associate Lecturer
Kelly Hoben is a professional art educator from Columbus, Ohio (U.S.A.), who relocated to Prague in 2010. She holds a Master’s degree in art education from Ohio State University where she also earned Bachelor’s degrees in both art education and English on a full academic scholarship. Under the tutelage of the world-renowned author, art educator and critic, Terry Barrett, Kelly became fascinated by art criticism as an integral part of effective art education. In Ohio, she taught secondary school drawing, painting and art history and worked to support the longest-operating nonprofit gallery for emerging contemporary artists in the Columbus arts district as its acting grant writer.
Since joining Prague City University in 2012, she has continuously developed the fine art curriculum in critical writing and aesthetic theory, which are the subjects of the modules she teaches. She has exhibited her paintings both in the U.S.A. and in the Czech Republic.
Education
MA, Ohio State University
BA, Ohio State University
Associate Lecturer
Jodie Hruby teaches in the School of Art and Design at Prague City University and mainly in our flagship Masters in Future Design. Jodie is an architect/designer with an MSc in Architecture, Urbanism, and Architectural Conservation from the US and the UK, with further MA design studies at the Chelsea College of Art + Design in London.
An explorer at heart, she has lived and worked in various countries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and is widely travelled – feeding a strong desire to know other cultures. She has a keen interest in the intermingling of the arts with the sciences and technology (high/low/fast/slow), to achieve the delicate combination from which poetry emerges.
Jodie is also a writer/editor/translator collaborating with architects, artists, playwrights, designers, musicians, performers, etc. on projects across Europe, as well as on books and publications. Prior to living in Prague she founded and directed a nomadic platform for the arts in Brussels, presenting performance, music, and visual arts exhibitions, often in parallel. In her free time she creates projects ranging from 3D poetry to scripts for plays, and is currently learning to play the piano.
Education
MA Art & Design, Chelsea College of Art, London UK
MSc Architectural Conservation, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh UK
BSc Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
Associate Lecturer
Currently a Design Consultant at Prague branding company Hrivnak, Helena graduated from the BA (Hons) programme in Graphic Design. She chose Prague City University for its multicultural environment, British educational system, the small number of people per class, its individual approach to students, and real-world client-oriented projects.
"Prague College (now Prague City University) helped me to become a more self-confident graphic designer, to find what areas of design I would like to focus on in the future, and to understand design from different points of view. PCU also encouraged me to continue research and experimentation in various design areas, and made me understand that the production of high quality and functional design requires a lifetime of learning."
Helena has many great memories, including the Differing Accents conference and winning a YCN Student Award. these were the highlights, but also, she says, meeting many interesting people who became friends, and discussing design with people who have a deep understanding of it.
Her ambitions for the future? "Continuously educating myself (especially in graphic design), improve my design and consultation skills, publishing lots of interesting books, and if possible helping society through graphic design. All of that and - of course - relocating closer to the beach!"
Education
BA (Hons), Teesside University
Associate Lecturer
Michal Kindernay is an intermedia artist, curator and performer. His audio-visual installations interconnect art, technology and science. He reflects ecological issues through various technological approaches in relation to nature environment.
His works include video performances, interactive installations or experimental documentary projects or sound compositions. He is one of the founders or yo-yo non profit culture organization, RurArtMap project and he was part of Školská 28 gallery collective in Prague.
He is an external teacher in Centre of Audiovisual Studies in Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts and in the new Master's programme in Fine Art at Prague City University. As organizer or artist he was involved in many international projects. He works and lives in Prague.
Associate Lecturer
Associate Lecturer
Cristina Maldonado works at the intersection of mixed reality, participatory and relational art, expanded and live cinema, site-specific, performance, and experimental theatre.
She teaches, mentors, directs, and nurses collaborations using devised theatre methodologies and a pos-dramatic approach. In the ’90s Cristina was a contemporary dance performer and lecturer, then expanded choreography into video-dance and performative installations in the 2000s.
For the last two decades, she has been researching the implications of mediation, manipulation of perception, embodiment, and strangership. Recently she is working on performative writing and interdisciplinary projects to research how performance can be used as a tool for activating collective knowledge.
She has performed in Mexico, U.S.A., Denmark, Belgium, Poland, Finland, Portugal, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Germany, Brazil, Canada, Armenia, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Russia, Lithuania, and Vienna. In 2020 Cristina was selected to enter the SNCA (National System of Art Creators Mexico) and to be an associate artist of In-Situ European Platform for Artistic Creations in Public Space.
Currently, she is a lecturer and mentor in the Master’s program of Directing Devised and Object Theater in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (KALD/DAMU) and in the Bachelor program of Fine Arts in the School of Arts and Design of Prague College.
Education
2020 Anthropology of Art. LATIR: Laboratory dedicated to research, project development, educational programs, and publications, with a cross-disciplinary perspective.
2020 MA Fine Art, Teesside University
2017-2018 Academic Program Arte contemporáneo y actual. Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA).
Associate Lecturer
Mgr. Dita Malečková, Ph.D., studied Philosophy and Information Science at Charles University of Prague.
For more than ten years she worked as a lecturer and researcher at the New Media Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, where she lectured on contemporary philosophy, visual culture, art and the new media. She also teaches at the Centre of audiovisual studies of FAMU.
From 2019 she and her team work on the projects using neural networks (see projects Digital Philosopher (Idea of the Year, AI Awards 2019)), or Digital Writer (processed as a serie for the Czech Radio, 2020).
She is interested in media theory, artificial intelligence with special regards to the imagination in the context of media and technology, artistic experimentations and philosophical consequences including ethical issues of AI.
Education
Ph.D., Information Science, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Mgr., Philosophy; Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Bc., Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
Associate Lecturer
Michal Mariašek teaches at Prague City University School of Art & Design. He is a Czech audio-visual artist, pedagogue, curator and coordinator of cultural events.
Michal has been experimenting in domain of digital arts since 1997, and his interests include computer game design, audiovisual performances and electronic music. He holds a master degree in fine arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno.
Since 2002 he has focused on digital sound processing and audiovisual performance. Michal is currently curating and coordinating cultural events at CIANT - the International Centre for Art and New Technologies.
Education
MFA, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno
Programme Leader
Programme Leader for MA Future Design, Petr is also a leading practitioner in the field of graphic design.
Petr Knobloch is a designer, user experience and user interface consultant and design educator.
He has been working as a graphic and interactive designer since the late eighties, for companies such as Ogilvy Interactive Detroit, Agency.com New York, Samba Digital Media Prague and Symblaze Los Angeles/Symblaze Prague. He has served as creative director, leading teams of digital specialists and working on digital strategies and online campaigns for diverse international clients.
Petr was responsible for the design of the global Ford Motor Company website, and designed and directed projects for Coca Cola Company, PepsiCo, GE Capital, ING Bank, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Deloitte&Touche, Vodafone, Telefonica O2, The Walt Disney Company, British Airways, Mazda USA and Google amongst others.
Since 2001 he has been simultaneously heading a digital design office dgú (nowadays called SORT OF) as its co-founder. dgú/SORT OF has produced mostly interactive work for cultural and non-profit clients such as the National Gallery in Prague, Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, The Czech Chamber of Architects, Czech Center New York, Czech Center London and The Office of the Czech Government.
Petr taught typography and design at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. He also served as a visiting tutor at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague as well as visiting lecturer at the North Carolina State University's Prague Institute. From 2004 to 2006 he also served as Vice-Chair of the International Graphic Design Biennial in Brno, Czech Republic.
He is an I.D. Interactive Media Design Review Bronze Award recipient as well as the Graphic Designer of the Year winner at the annual Czech Grand Design Awards. Petr is a graduate of the 2D Design MFA programme at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan where he studied with professors Laurie Haycock Makela and P. Scott Makela as a Fulbright scholar.
Education
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan
Associate Lecturer
Ken is an illustrator, animator, writer, cartoonist and multi-media performer, whose skills encompass the full range of multi-media, including sound recording, audio editing, video, motion graphics, animation, typography, illustration and design. Clients have included UNICEF, Random House, Hachette Filipacchi Media, The Prague Post, The Washington Post, Macaw Publishing, McCann Erickson, Prague Insider Magazine, Artel Glass and many more.
Ken, who holds a BA in Advertising from Michigan State University, has a long association with Prague City University. He has been a guest speaker on multiple occasions, addressing students in the Visual Communication module of the Interactive Media programme on the topic of storyboarding. With Jeremiah Palecek he runs a popular life drawing class at the college on alternate Tuesdays.
Education
BA, Michigan State University
Associate Lecturer
Isa Juchniewicz is a visual artist whose practice focuses on the intersection between new media and performance art. She has been working in collaboration with others, researching, teaching and leading workshops in Czechia, Poland, Germany and Mexico.
Isa received her Bachelor in Fine Art Experimental Media from Prague City University (formerly known as Prague College), and is currently enrolled in an MA in Art History at the University of Warsaw.
Associate Lecturer
Associate Lecturer
Pavla Pauknerová is a design theoretician and critic.
She is currently finishing her PhD at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, dealing with the topic of data, information and knowledge visualization in her dissertation work.
At the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design she has been lecturing on graphic design theory and experimental positions of contemporary design practice. Her texts have been published in magazines such as Art + Antiques, Fotograf, and Živel, amongst others. Pavla has collaborated on several exhibitions and publications. She participated in the projects 'There and Back - Contemporary Design, Architecture and Urbanism', and the annual 'UMPRUM ATTACK!' exhibition at the Veletržní Palace of the National Gallery in Prague.
In collaboration with graphic designer Richard Jaroš, she published 'Nejen kruhy - Vizuální přístupy v zobrazování dat a informací (Not Just Circles - Visual Approaches to Data and Information Visualization)'.
She is a graduate of the University of New York in Prague (Communications and Mass Media) and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (History and Theory of Design and New Media).
Associate Lecturer
Dominika Potuzakova is an Associate Lecturer in the MA Future Design programme.
Dominika started off as a traditional product designer, however by the end of her undergraduate studies she moved her direction to user-centered interaction design. Within her postgraduate design and research work she focused on developing conceptual designs of interactive products and systems in the healthcare sector. Her obtained at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands gave her great knowledge of design and research methodologies and processes focusing on direct contact with human beings.
Dominika worked as Senior User Researcher at a leading technological company in Prague. There she applied design research methods to become the “advocate” of the users of products developed by the company. With her work she translated the users’ needs and wishes into design recommendations for the teams of designers, developers and marketers.
From the digital setting of a product development she moved back to the physical setting where she currently collaborates with architects, urbanists as well as employee engagement strategists on projects focusing on development of new city parts, buildings and interiors that are designed with its users in mind.
Education
PDEng. (Professional Doctorate in Engineering) User System Interaction - Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
MSc. Industrial Design - Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
BSc. Engineering Product Design - London South Bank University, UK
Associate Lecturer
Andrea is a founder of the visual research platform Fresh Eye and works in the fields of visual culture studies, memory studies and visual sociology. Her research work has been published in Life Writings and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and in Historiography of National Leaders: Symbolic Representations in School Textbooks from Around the World (2017).
She has translated Berger’s Ways of Seeing and co-translated Mitchell’s Picture Theory to Czech. She has attended several international conferences (e.g. in NYC, Cardiff, Valencia or Wroclaw) and lectured at Columbia University, New York University and the Pratt Institute.
In 2013 she received a fellowship from the Georg Eckert Institute, and was awarded a three-year research grant from Charles University, which was devoted to her doctoral research on the visual culture of modern and contemporary history education.
Andrea received her PhD from the Department of Sociology at Charles University in Prague, and, in addition to being a lecturer at PCU, is also an Associate Lecturer at Charles University (Institute of Communication Studies).
She is also a researcher at the Czech National Film Archive and at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.
From August 2015 until February 2016 Andrea was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at New York University, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, and at the Pratt Institute School of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts, in the programme of Critical and Visual Studies.
Education
PhD, Charles University
MA, Charles University
BA, Charles University
Associate Lecturer
Matěj Smetana teaches in the School of Art and Design at Prague City Univeristy and mainly in our flagship Masters in Fine Art. He studied the School of Creative Arts (FaVU) in Brno at the Intermedia and Painting 3 studio of Petr Kvíčala and the Academy of Fine Arts (AVU) in Prague, where he received his Ph.D. degree.
In addition to teaching at Prague City University he is a specialist assistant at the Intermedia and Multimedia Department at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) in Bratislava, and an assistant professor at the Environment Studio at FaVU in Brno.
Smetana has already built up a large portfolio of work involving both solo and group projects. He looks upon his working method as a kind of conceptual game, and play is the principle inseparably linked with his work. Using the game he analyses certain processes and procedures linked with the way we perceive, while eschewing complexity and ensuring his work is characterised by simplicity of resources and intelligibility, combined with meaningful depth and imaginativeness.
Every work of his asks the question: “What would I do if...?” or “What would happen if...?”, as though we were wondering how to cure boredom, play a game, or think of an idea, and an infinite set of possibilities opens up. The artist then creates certain rules and procedures according to which the work emerges. It is for this reason that his approach is sometimes compared to scientific research.
(Alzbeta Cibulkova for Artlist.cz)
Education
Ph.D, Academy of Fine Arts (AVU), Prague
Masters (MgA.), University of Fine Art (FaVU), Brno
Associate Lecturer
Adrian has been a lecturer at Prague City University since 2017 and is originally from Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Adrian has been a lecturer at Prague City University since 2017 and is originally from Newcastle Upon Tyne.
He trained as a navigation officer in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary after which he studied at Manchester Polytechnic and graduated with a degree in Landscape Design. After moving to Prague in 1992 He has worked as an Art Director, Senior Art Director and Creative Director in various advertising agencies.
He now works as a teacher, freelance designer, painter and also has a successful musical career. He won the Apollo award for best album in 2013. He is currently studying the MA programme in Fine Art as well as teaching at Prague City University.
From an educational perspective he brings a wealth of practical knowledge to the students both in design and best practices. He likes to inspire students in order to take them to the next level in their careers.
Education
BA (Hons) Landscape Design, Manchester Metropolitan University
Associate Lecturer
Viktor teaches Advanced Digital Design Studies at Prague City University.
He studied IT, Medial and Didactic Illustration, Multimedia design in applied arts. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Prague in studio New media I. and Intermedia studies. He is currently a Doctoral candidate in the context of new media and film.
Professionally he focuses on systems, platforms, and media. He is a professional web designer and web developer who follows human centred design strategies. Formerly he worked for a media agency developing universal web templates and customizable profiles for thousands of firms.
Education
PhD. (candidate), Academy of Fine Arts, AVU, Prague, CZ
MgA, Academy of Fine Arts, AVU, Prague, CZ
Associate Lecturer
Barbora gained her PhD from the AAAD (VŠUP), Prague in the field of graphic design, under Prof. Rostislav Vaněk. She received the Good Design Award at the Czech National Awards for Student Design (2008, CI Foundation Leontinka) and won the competition for the visual identity of the cultural festival Nethworks.cz. She is a member of the creative team with Toman Design.
Barbora is interested in the overlap of typography and image. In 2011 she conducted research in the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami.
Education
PhD, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague
Associate Lecturer
Associate Lecturer
Andrés teaches Media Experimentation to Foundation students at Prague City University. He is a Colombian musician and sound designer and the founder of Colombian studio La Tina Sonido. Andrés has more than 10 years experience creating sound for films, documentaries, streaming platforms and art installations.
Associate Lecturer
Jana Krchová is an independent designer and art director working with cultural institutions and private businesses on the full scope of their design projects. Jana enjoys cooperating with TV and film productions, recently creating both external and internal graphics for the acclaimed TV series Defender (Golden Nymph nomination) and the visual style of the 29th Czech Lion film and TV awards. Her clients also include Lycée Français de Prague, CEFRES Institute and Czech Academy of Sciences. At PCU Jana teaches the Design Thinking in Practice and Language of the Profession courses in the Art and Design faculty’s BA program in Graphic Design.
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Teeside University
Master’s degree, Prague University of Economics and Business
Associate Lecturer
Jitka Šosová is an art historian based in Prague. She teaches Art History classes that focus mostly on the numerous social, political, and symbolic functions of artwork.
For the Foundation programme, she teaches a class named Contextual Studies designed to introduce students to various analytical perspectives useful for understanding visual art.
Jitka studied at Charles University and UMPRUM, both in Prague, and Université de Bourgogne, in Dijon, France. She holds degrees in Art History and Theory and History of Design and New Media. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at UMPRUM, Prague. In her research, she focuses on the interactions between art and politics in the 20th century. Recently, Jitka concluded a four-year research project focused on a collection of fine art assembled by Czechoslovakian presidents in the Prague Castle between 1918 and 1953 and together with her colleague Markéta Ježková presented their findings in a form of a show and a book "Tož to kupte!".
Jitka has over a decade of teaching experience. Since 2008, she worked for the National Gallery Prague as a lecturer and was responsible, among other things, for developing new formats. She has lectured for multiple museums and galleries in the Czech Republic (Kampa Museum, Klatovy-Klenová Gallery, The Municipal Gallery of Prague). Currently, she also teaches at UMPRUM and Scholastika College, Prague.
Education
PhD (Candidate), Theory and History of Fine Arts, Academy of Art, Architecture and Design (UMPRUM),
Mgr., History and Theory of Design and New Media, Academy of Art, Architecture and Design (UMPRUM)
BA, History of Art and Visual Culture, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Ba., Art History, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Associate Lecturer
Lamija Čehajić is a young multidisciplinary artist who reads theory and makes material poems on collectivity.
Education
BA (Hons) Fine Art Experimental Media, Teesside University
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