Lenka Míková - Jana Potiron - lecture series on architecture and design
The third part of the lecture series organized by the Pěstuj prostor association on architecture and design will focus on the relationship between architecture and interior design. Do architecture and design intersect most significantly in the interior? Is designing interiors a field where, aside from architecture and design, other disciplines also converge? To what extent does the education of an architect and/or designer determine interior creation? Architect Lenka Míková and designer Jana Potiron will seek answers to these and many other questions in their contributions.
In her presentation, Lenka Míková will introduce three completed projects with differing contexts and scales of intervention and overlap with architecture. “In addition to the effort to find answers to the pre-defined questions, I will attempt to present the thinking and approach of our studio through these examples and show how the interior solutions stem from architecture, relate to it, or are completely intertwined with it,” says the architect.
Jana Potiron will focus on the psychology of objects and the topic of how well designers know their clients in her presentation. She will also point out the possible discrepancy between the ideas of designers and clients. “What seems obvious to designers may not be natural and logical for users. The goal of their collaboration should be to achieve mutual agreement on the final form of the design, which includes designers' ability to materially express their clients' preferences,” asserts Jana Potiron.
The online lecture followed by a discussion will take place on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at 6 p.m. on the Pěstuj prostor Facebook profile.
The lecture series is prepared by the Pěstuj prostor association with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the city of Plzeň, and the Czech Architecture Foundation.
Lenka Míková
She studied architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague and also completed an internship in Paris during her studies. Later, she worked on her doctoral thesis at UMPRUM in Prague for several years. She gained professional experience through practice in various studios in Prague and Paris, and later contributed to the establishment of the studio edit! architekti, where she worked for several years. She has been running her own practice since 2014, and her studio Lenka Míková architekti, based in Prague, currently consists of an eight-member team. She mainly focuses on smaller-scale architecture (which is gradually increasing). The diverse range of projects includes renovations of all kinds, interiors, residential projects including new buildings, and exhibition installations. In 2018, Lenka Míková received the Interior of the Year 2017 award in the Private Interior - Renovation category for her project reconstructing a South Bohemian homestead called Two Houses, Deer, and Trees, as well as the Slovenian BigSEE Award 2019. The media response at home and abroad was also noted for the interior completed for the Relax Underground hourly hotel. For the Freshlabels brand, Lenka Míková's studio designed the first foreign branch in Berlin and subsequently the Freshlabels Sustainable Store in Prague's Letná district, focusing on sustainability. Thanks to winning a commissioned competition in 2019, Lenka and her team are responsible for the interior of the lobby of the Dvořák Hall in the Rudolfina building and continues to collaborate with the Czech Philharmonic in the building's facilities.
Jana Potiron
She studied design in the product and innovation studio at the Faculty of Arts at the Technical University in Košice. She also studied in Budapest and Castelo Branco in Portugal. She later defended her doctoral thesis at her alma mater in Košice. In addition to her independent design work under the brand Grung design, she has been engaged in teaching activities since 2012. For several years, she has led the Furniture and Interior Design studio at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Plzeň. She also lectures at this school as part of continuing education and conducts courses at the summer ArtCamp. Each year, she leads grant projects to support design methodology, conceptual design, and organizes lectures on design and so-called business thinking. She is also behind the creation of an extensive material bank – a materials library that contains more than 600 physical samples and continues to expand. In theoretical research, she focuses on user and material psychology in design, which she applies in her interior realizations and in teaching. In her work, she mainly focuses on public interiors, for which she designs author collections of furniture in small series. Currently, she is working on more experimental projects – material innovation and the design of conceptual interior objects.
In her presentation, Lenka Míková will introduce three completed projects with differing contexts and scales of intervention and overlap with architecture. “In addition to the effort to find answers to the pre-defined questions, I will attempt to present the thinking and approach of our studio through these examples and show how the interior solutions stem from architecture, relate to it, or are completely intertwined with it,” says the architect.
Jana Potiron will focus on the psychology of objects and the topic of how well designers know their clients in her presentation. She will also point out the possible discrepancy between the ideas of designers and clients. “What seems obvious to designers may not be natural and logical for users. The goal of their collaboration should be to achieve mutual agreement on the final form of the design, which includes designers' ability to materially express their clients' preferences,” asserts Jana Potiron.
The online lecture followed by a discussion will take place on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at 6 p.m. on the Pěstuj prostor Facebook profile.
The lecture series is prepared by the Pěstuj prostor association with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the city of Plzeň, and the Czech Architecture Foundation.
Lenka Míková
She studied architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague and also completed an internship in Paris during her studies. Later, she worked on her doctoral thesis at UMPRUM in Prague for several years. She gained professional experience through practice in various studios in Prague and Paris, and later contributed to the establishment of the studio edit! architekti, where she worked for several years. She has been running her own practice since 2014, and her studio Lenka Míková architekti, based in Prague, currently consists of an eight-member team. She mainly focuses on smaller-scale architecture (which is gradually increasing). The diverse range of projects includes renovations of all kinds, interiors, residential projects including new buildings, and exhibition installations. In 2018, Lenka Míková received the Interior of the Year 2017 award in the Private Interior - Renovation category for her project reconstructing a South Bohemian homestead called Two Houses, Deer, and Trees, as well as the Slovenian BigSEE Award 2019. The media response at home and abroad was also noted for the interior completed for the Relax Underground hourly hotel. For the Freshlabels brand, Lenka Míková's studio designed the first foreign branch in Berlin and subsequently the Freshlabels Sustainable Store in Prague's Letná district, focusing on sustainability. Thanks to winning a commissioned competition in 2019, Lenka and her team are responsible for the interior of the lobby of the Dvořák Hall in the Rudolfina building and continues to collaborate with the Czech Philharmonic in the building's facilities.
Jana Potiron
She studied design in the product and innovation studio at the Faculty of Arts at the Technical University in Košice. She also studied in Budapest and Castelo Branco in Portugal. She later defended her doctoral thesis at her alma mater in Košice. In addition to her independent design work under the brand Grung design, she has been engaged in teaching activities since 2012. For several years, she has led the Furniture and Interior Design studio at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Plzeň. She also lectures at this school as part of continuing education and conducts courses at the summer ArtCamp. Each year, she leads grant projects to support design methodology, conceptual design, and organizes lectures on design and so-called business thinking. She is also behind the creation of an extensive material bank – a materials library that contains more than 600 physical samples and continues to expand. In theoretical research, she focuses on user and material psychology in design, which she applies in her interior realizations and in teaching. In her work, she mainly focuses on public interiors, for which she designs author collections of furniture in small series. Currently, she is working on more experimental projects – material innovation and the design of conceptual interior objects.
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