Product Design Studio
This studio creates an environment and tools for life. The studio stands between design and architecture. It functions as a bridge over which students can move freely and combine approaches typical for both of the aforementioned disciplines. They work both in large and small scales, focusing on details and looking at broader contexts as well. They design products, interiors, parts of public space, and small-scale architecture. The studio does not provide instruction manuals. It provides examples and sets challenges. It encourages students to think and confront conventional principles through dialogue. Instructors support personal approaches, freedom, and responsibility. They create a space in which everyone cultivates their own set of conceptual tools which enable them to understand, analyze, and elaborate on a given problem. Context is therefore essential. As a studio, one goal is be informed, think globally, and check theory through practice. An interdisciplinary approach is an indispensable source of inspiration and future professional relationships.
Tutors
MgA.
Monika Čechová
Matějková
“A designer and visual artist focusing primarily on exhibition and spatial design. She studied product design and glass at UMPRUM in Prague. Since 2014 she has worked in the art studio MY DVĚ together with Veronika Watzková, and since 2018 she has run the studio O+M with Ondřej Čech, whose realisations bring together architecture, design and work with artworks. For the design of the Palace of Illustration in Český Krumlov they received the Czech Grand Design 2025 award in the Spatial Designer of the Year category.”
MgA.
JanMikoška
“From 2011 to 2019 he studied at UMPRUM in Prague in the Furniture and Interior Design Studio of prof. ak. arch. Jiří Pelcl, with whom he exhibited at the Czech Centre in Paris during Paris Design Week in 2015. In 2014 he co-founded the studio HRA NA STUDIO with Radim Kučera, working at the intersection of product, interior and graphic design. He designs furniture systems, interiors (from a hostel in Kroměříž to a pharmacy in Sokolov) and visual identities for cultural events, including Forum Karlín, the Brno Philharmonic and the Maraton hudby Brno festival.”
Responsibility: MgA. Jan Mikoška