Eglė Opeikienė
„Contraforma“
Marketing director
Marketing director
Lithuania
Represented Lithuania in Great Britain organized program ”Crossroads for ideas”; design management.
Egle Opeikiene participated in a commemorational event of Central Europe Countries entering into European Union. Event was at Foreign & Commonwealth Office in Great Britain.
Opeikiene attended a meeting with Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair.
Furniture expert was involved in program “Crossroads for ideas” intership in London. Subject – development of product and item mark.
Jury member of International competition “Young Design businessman of 2005”, organized by British Council,
Organized “Centre Design Week” and exhibition-competition named “Neformate”.
Organized international retrospective Lithuanian design exhibition “10 x better” in Vilnius. Egle took a part in industrial design association of Italy organized conference.
Speaker at Embassy of Italy in Lithuania, Italian association ADI, Italian Lazio region and by association “Design Forum” organized conference “Design and business collaboration possibilities and perspectives”.
Organizer and project manager of common Lithuanian furniture stand in exhibition “100%Design“.
International furniture and interior exhibition ”Baltic Furniture 2006“ (Latvia) furniture design competition jury member.
Egle Opeikiene was a curator of company “Contraforma” exhibitions in Vilnius, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Paris and Tokyo.
Furniture expert was involved in program “Crossroads for ideas” intership in London. Subject – development of product and item mark.
Jury member of International competition “Young Design businessman of 2005”, organized by British Council,
Organized “Centre Design Week” and exhibition-competition named “Neformate”.
Organized international retrospective Lithuanian design exhibition “10 x better” in Vilnius. Egle took a part in industrial design association of Italy organized conference.
Speaker at Embassy of Italy in Lithuania, Italian association ADI, Italian Lazio region and by association “Design Forum” organized conference “Design and business collaboration possibilities and perspectives”.
Organizer and project manager of common Lithuanian furniture stand in exhibition “100%Design“.
International furniture and interior exhibition ”Baltic Furniture 2006“ (Latvia) furniture design competition jury member.
Egle Opeikiene was a curator of company “Contraforma” exhibitions in Vilnius, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Paris and Tokyo.
Presentation:
“From small country to global market: Lithuanian product design management”
The presentation focuses on the question, what are the ways for new design companies to establish themselves in the global design world.
Practice-based management model, used by Lithuanian design studio “Contraforma”, presents region particularity of design management and reveals the obstacles and challenges, what the designers’ team had to defeat on their way from idea to product realization.
Many various networks were used to enhance the reputation of the Lithuanian design company as a valued commercial partner and to encourage the growing interest in the Eastern European market in the field of product design.
People from different Eastern Europe countries working in the same field have to share experience and ideas of design and branding. The different ways of process in different cultures inspires not only new ideas, but also provides new ways of management.
Just one example – the marketing model of design studio “Contraforma” – can give inspiration to hundreds practical ideas, which might be realized in the nearest future.
From idea to final product, from local production to international marketing and final customer in all over the world - theses are the key themes of the presentation.
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Agnese Miltina
Head of Centre of Culture and Creative Industries’ Education
Head of Centre of Culture and Creative Industries’ Education
Latvia
Since 2006 - Director of Centre of Culture and Creative Industries Education
2000-2006 - Head of departament of Culture management in Latvian Culture College
- marketing director of international festival of contemporary theatre Homo Novus, Latvia
- lecturer of culture management in Latvian Academy of Culture
- to develop and realisation course of lectures in culture management for regional culture manager in Latvia
since 1998 - had in-service training in the programm “Regional culture politics in Sweden” of Stokholm “Rikskonsert”
- management of children art education project “The live World” in Gerlica, Germany
since 1996 - manager, producer, consultant of independent project of culture
Presentation:
2000-2006 - Head of departament of Culture management in Latvian Culture College
- marketing director of international festival of contemporary theatre Homo Novus, Latvia
- lecturer of culture management in Latvian Academy of Culture
- to develop and realisation course of lectures in culture management for regional culture manager in Latvia
since 1998 - had in-service training in the programm “Regional culture politics in Sweden” of Stokholm “Rikskonsert”
- management of children art education project “The live World” in Gerlica, Germany
since 1996 - manager, producer, consultant of independent project of culture
Presentation:
"Situation analysis of Latvian design education"
1. The education system of Latvia, academic and vocational education.
The education system of Latvia has been described, academic and vocational education of all education levels has been outlined.
2. Place of design education in the education system of Latvia. Latvian design education institutions at all education levels.
A list of Latvian educational institutions providing design education or an education connected with the design field has been drawn up and a brief summary describing design programmes has been provided.
3. Description of educational institutions, their comparison with kindred foreign educational institutions.
Latvian Academy of Arts, the Baltic International Academy and foreign design higher education establishments popular in Latvia have been chosen to provide an insight into their work.
4. Positive and negative features of the current design education.
After carrying out a survey at educational establishments, among design specialists, businesspersons and based on discussions with the Latvian Employers’ Confederation, familiarizing themselves with studies carried out and the situation analysis in the field of design, the working group of the development of design education concept found.
1. The education system of Latvia, academic and vocational education.
The education system of Latvia has been described, academic and vocational education of all education levels has been outlined.
2. Place of design education in the education system of Latvia. Latvian design education institutions at all education levels.
A list of Latvian educational institutions providing design education or an education connected with the design field has been drawn up and a brief summary describing design programmes has been provided.
3. Description of educational institutions, their comparison with kindred foreign educational institutions.
Latvian Academy of Arts, the Baltic International Academy and foreign design higher education establishments popular in Latvia have been chosen to provide an insight into their work.
4. Positive and negative features of the current design education.
After carrying out a survey at educational establishments, among design specialists, businesspersons and based on discussions with the Latvian Employers’ Confederation, familiarizing themselves with studies carried out and the situation analysis in the field of design, the working group of the development of design education concept found.
5. Concept of design education.
In order to develop design industry in Latvia and promote prestige of a designer’s profession in general public, as well as to increase knowledge and professional competence of designers as specialists of a creative industry, by observing succession of design education, in order to introduce contemporary design education training methods, develop design continuity and knowledge based in it, as well as reasonable use of material and non-material resources, a uniform state design education concept has been worked out.
6. Place of design and planned development in state documents and normative acts.
7. Design–related institutions and their activities in Latvia.
8. Producer and designer. Producer and a school.
Contemporary design education that meets market demands is not imaginable without real cooperation of educational institutions and manufacturers or service providers. Getting acquainted with the world practice, taking into account the real situation in Latvia, design education concept provides for several such models of the mutual cooperation.
In order to develop design industry in Latvia and promote prestige of a designer’s profession in general public, as well as to increase knowledge and professional competence of designers as specialists of a creative industry, by observing succession of design education, in order to introduce contemporary design education training methods, develop design continuity and knowledge based in it, as well as reasonable use of material and non-material resources, a uniform state design education concept has been worked out.
6. Place of design and planned development in state documents and normative acts.
7. Design–related institutions and their activities in Latvia.
8. Producer and designer. Producer and a school.
Contemporary design education that meets market demands is not imaginable without real cooperation of educational institutions and manufacturers or service providers. Getting acquainted with the world practice, taking into account the real situation in Latvia, design education concept provides for several such models of the mutual cooperation.
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Dr. Kärt Summatavet
Senior Research Fellow, Doctor of Arts (PhD)
Estonia
Kärt Summatavet is Senior Research Fellow of the University of Tartu. She is also Visiting Project Manager of the international fashion design project “NEiD - New European Identities” and a Head of MA module of the Faculty of Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EAC, Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013; partners: University of Art and Design Helsinki, Eindhoven Design Academy). She was Professor and the Head of Media and Design Doctoral Programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts 2005-2008. She is elected as Higher Ranking Doctor of the University of Art and Design Helsinki, as Honour Member of the European Union Women Inventors and Innovators Network, as Fellow of Kalevalaseura in 2008 (Finland), as Member and Expert of the Council of Higher Education of the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research in 2008, and as Member of Council of Creative Industries of the Estonian Ministry of Culture in 2009. She is a member of the Estonian Association of Designers, Estonian Artists’ Association, QUIN-Estonia and Member of Board of Follows Society of the Estonian National Museum.
Kärt is a member and expert of the Council of Higher Education of the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, and expert of the Council of Creative Industries of the Estonian Ministry of Culture. She is a Member of the Creative Council of the President of Estonia.
Kärt is a jewellery designer and a graphic artist. She exhibits since 1986. She has 29 one-man shows and has participated at joint exhibitions in Estonia, Sweden, Finland, USA, UK, China, Russia, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, Germany, Norway, Hungary, Slovenia. She was initiator and Project Manager of European Social Fund M 1.3 project no. 1.0301-0144 "Handicraft for Job" (2004-2007), and worked as Research Supervisor of SOCRATES/ERASMUS Project "Remembering the Future" funded by Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, EAC EA (2005-2007). She is awarded by the European Union Women Inventors and Innovators Network EUWIIN in 2007 (Berlin, Germany) and has Silver Medal of the Korean International Women’s Invention Exposition 2008 (WIPO, KIPO). She is involved in the development of doctoral programme in Product Development and Design of the University of Tartu and in Art and Design of the Estonian Academy of Arts. She has experience as a supervisor of practice-based PhDs in Estonia, and as a PhD examiner in Estonia, Finland and Lithuania. She is a member of the Doctoral School of the Estonian Academy of Arts, and a member of the MA Council of the Faculties of Design and Visual Culture. She is a reviewer and registered expert for Estonia-Latvia Programme and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism and European Economic Area Financial Mechanism of the Enterprise Estonia.
Kärt is currently the Principal Investigator of 2-year Basic Financing Grant “Raising the abilities of entrepreneurship and IT based output of creative industries through fundamental and applied research”; and the expert in product development of the project “Käsitööga tööle/Handicraft for Job”, funded by the European Social Fund, RAK Measure 1.3.1.
Kärt is a member and expert of the Council of Higher Education of the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, and expert of the Council of Creative Industries of the Estonian Ministry of Culture. She is a Member of the Creative Council of the President of Estonia.
Kärt is a jewellery designer and a graphic artist. She exhibits since 1986. She has 29 one-man shows and has participated at joint exhibitions in Estonia, Sweden, Finland, USA, UK, China, Russia, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, Germany, Norway, Hungary, Slovenia. She was initiator and Project Manager of European Social Fund M 1.3 project no. 1.0301-0144 "Handicraft for Job" (2004-2007), and worked as Research Supervisor of SOCRATES/ERASMUS Project "Remembering the Future" funded by Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, EAC EA (2005-2007). She is awarded by the European Union Women Inventors and Innovators Network EUWIIN in 2007 (Berlin, Germany) and has Silver Medal of the Korean International Women’s Invention Exposition 2008 (WIPO, KIPO). She is involved in the development of doctoral programme in Product Development and Design of the University of Tartu and in Art and Design of the Estonian Academy of Arts. She has experience as a supervisor of practice-based PhDs in Estonia, and as a PhD examiner in Estonia, Finland and Lithuania. She is a member of the Doctoral School of the Estonian Academy of Arts, and a member of the MA Council of the Faculties of Design and Visual Culture. She is a reviewer and registered expert for Estonia-Latvia Programme and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism and European Economic Area Financial Mechanism of the Enterprise Estonia.
Kärt is currently the Principal Investigator of 2-year Basic Financing Grant “Raising the abilities of entrepreneurship and IT based output of creative industries through fundamental and applied research”; and the expert in product development of the project “Käsitööga tööle/Handicraft for Job”, funded by the European Social Fund, RAK Measure 1.3.1.
Presentation:
"The role of practice-based research in Estonian economy and in creative industries"
The presentation focuses on the high quality international Ph.D. programmes in the field of art and design research and various problems in Estonia, in order to map more extensively the possibilities for creative and academic research in the field of creative industries. The presentation focuses on three main subjects in order to introduce the developments and trends in academic and developmental work of art universities during the Soviet period, local problems of academic work in the fields of art and design, and new opportunities in disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.
The presentation focuses on the high quality international Ph.D. programmes in the field of art and design research and various problems in Estonia, in order to map more extensively the possibilities for creative and academic research in the field of creative industries. The presentation focuses on three main subjects in order to introduce the developments and trends in academic and developmental work of art universities during the Soviet period, local problems of academic work in the fields of art and design, and new opportunities in disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.
To understand the academic research on Ph.D. level in art and design up until now the presentation includes an overview of the recent history of higher education in art in the Baltic States. The presentation uses the Estonian Academy of Arts as an example to demonstrate how the academic work and development have taken shape since 1946, which kind of requirements have been set for professors and artists and how these requirements have changed over time. The presentation attempts to use the example of one art school to explain the wider problems that have emerged in the Ph.D. education in art. There are numerous examples of methods of the past artists-researchers to map and analyse how creative work supported the research of professional artists and how research in turn influenced their creative work.
The second important subject is the current situation in the Ph.D. programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where numerous problems have emerged, and their effect can be felt both within the field as well as outside. It is worth remembering the unique characteristics of the higher education in art in the Baltic States and to study them when planning future activities. The presentation introduces the current situation in Ph.D. programmes in art in the three Baltic States and outlines prevalent stereotypical attitudes which are common in the society and hinder the development of local higher education in art. It also outlines some aspects on how practice-based and practice-led research experience in Finland and the United Kingdom help local art professionals to speak ‘in their own voice’.
Thirdly, it introduces new possibilities on the disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research in the field of art. The presentation takes a look at two recent studies which map the current situation in Estonian creative industries and its role in Estonian economy in an even and unbiased way. In the context of creativity and innovation, the presentation deals with numerous possibilities for applying different research methods of various academic fields in the Ph.D. programmes for art. It also analyses which useful lessons can be learnt from the history of local art education and how to deepen the co-operation between various academic fields, universities, enterprises and international research centres.
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Michal Stefanowski
President, SPFP - The Association of Industrial Designers in Poland
President, SPFP - The Association of Industrial Designers in Poland
Poland
Associate Professor Michał Stefanowski – designer
Born in 1958. Graduated at the Faculty of Industrial Design / Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
1983 - 1988 designer in Mass Studio design company. 1984 in Ergonomiadesign - Finland. 1988 – 2005 partner in MIMO, then Towarzystwo Projektowe design companies. Since 2005 owner of INNO Projekt.
Born in 1958. Graduated at the Faculty of Industrial Design / Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
1983 - 1988 designer in Mass Studio design company. 1984 in Ergonomiadesign - Finland. 1988 – 2005 partner in MIMO, then Towarzystwo Projektowe design companies. Since 2005 owner of INNO Projekt.
Author of many designs of products, street furniture, packaging, wayfinding systems, visual communication. Co-author of awarded national and international awards designs of Warsaw City Information System, Information System for Warsaw University Library, Interiors, Information System and Furniture for Agora Ltd headquater.
Author of numerous articles about design in Poland and abroad.
Head of Department of Design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Design / Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Participant and coordinator of various international projects.
President of the Association of Industrial Designers in Poland.
Presentation:
"The situation of design in Poland"
The background (design - roots, politics, economy). 1989 - 2000 : political and economical change without any governmental plan of support for design. Number of activities of the designers’ community after 2000, which succeeded with various results. Present situation: state of industry, education, institutions supporting and promoting design. Governmental and regional funds and plans for the development of design and innovation
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Lolita Jablonskienė
National Gallery of Art
Lithuania
1985-2003 Institute of Lithuanian History, later – Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Art, Vilnius. Junior researcher, later – researcher at Art History and Theory Department.
1993–1999 Vilnius Academy of Arts. Part time lecturer at Ceramics Department.
1997–2003; 2003 - Vilnius Academy of Arts. Lecturer acting associate professor at Art History and Theory Department.
1993–1999 Open Society Fund-Lithuania. Assistant director of Soros Center for Contemporary Arts–Lithuania.
2000–2002 National Art Museum of Lithuania. Chief curator at Contemporary Art Information Center.
2002- National Art Museum of Lithuania. Chief curator of National Gallery of Art.
Science area - Humanities
Science field - Art History and Theory
Science branch - 20th & 21st Century
Fields of Scientific interests - History and theory of contemporary art, design and craft
Science field - Art History and Theory
Science branch - 20th & 21st Century
Fields of Scientific interests - History and theory of contemporary art, design and craft
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Juha Jarvinen
Project Manager, industrial designer
University of Art and Design Helsinki
Project Manager, industrial designer
University of Art and Design Helsinki
Finland
Juha Jarvinen works as a project manager in Designium innovation Centre at University of Art and Design Helsinki TAIK.
Juha Jarvinen received his diploma (M.A.) in industrial design in 2000 from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki.
From 2000-2002 Juha Jarvinen worked as a researcher in a project examining the use of industrial design in Finnish manufacturing industry.
Since then Juha Jarvinen has worked in several significant innovation and design policy projects, including the preliminary preparation project of the National Technology programme for Industrial Design in Finland.
Juha Jarvinen is currently writing his doctoral thesis on the design history of the former East Germany (DDR)
Juha Jarvinen received his diploma (M.A.) in industrial design in 2000 from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki.
From 2000-2002 Juha Jarvinen worked as a researcher in a project examining the use of industrial design in Finnish manufacturing industry.
Since then Juha Jarvinen has worked in several significant innovation and design policy projects, including the preliminary preparation project of the National Technology programme for Industrial Design in Finland.
Juha Jarvinen is currently writing his doctoral thesis on the design history of the former East Germany (DDR)
Presentation:
Design Policies vs. Political Design: Case Industrial Design in the Former East Germany
My presentation focuses on the question of political control over design.
How the political and ideological steering and control had its effect on what designers produced in the former East Germany? In addition to the importance to research this particular topic in design history – very little has been written about the subject –, it is crucial to understand the causes and partly dramatic results of the political power over design, if more successful and potential design policies are to be built in the present European countries.
How the political and ideological steering and control had its effect on what designers produced in the former East Germany? In addition to the importance to research this particular topic in design history – very little has been written about the subject –, it is crucial to understand the causes and partly dramatic results of the political power over design, if more successful and potential design policies are to be built in the present European countries.
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Jane Pavitt
Curator - Cold War Modern - Victoria & Albert Museum
Principal Research Fellow - University of Brighton
Curator - Cold War Modern - Victoria & Albert Museum
Principal Research Fellow - University of Brighton
Jane Pavitt is the curator of the Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70, which was shown first at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2008 and is currently at the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius. The exhibition explores the extraordinary developments in modern architecture and design in this period of high political tension. Presenting modern art, design, architecture and film from both sides of the Iron Curtain, the exhibition examines the anxieties and expectations, hopes and fears of the Cold War world. In this talk, she will outline the themes of the exhibition, which include architecture and social reconstruction; the conscription of modern art into cold war politics; technological experimentation in the period; the space race; nuclear anxieties; counter-cultures and utopian visions of the 1960s.
Jane Pavitt is the University of Brighton Principal Research Fellow in Design at the V&A Museum, London. She has curated many exhibitions on 20th century and contemporary design including Brand.New, on global branding cultures (2000) and Brilliant: Lights and Lighting (2004), and is the author of several books on the subject. In 2008 she curated Cold War Modern and co-authored the accompanying book with exhibition consultant, David Crowley. She is currently working on an exhibition about Postmodernism in design, for 2011.
Jane Pavitt is the University of Brighton Principal Research Fellow in Design at the V&A Museum, London. She has curated many exhibitions on 20th century and contemporary design including Brand.New, on global branding cultures (2000) and Brilliant: Lights and Lighting (2004), and is the author of several books on the subject. In 2008 she curated Cold War Modern and co-authored the accompanying book with exhibition consultant, David Crowley. She is currently working on an exhibition about Postmodernism in design, for 2011.
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