Simona Kicurovska
Simona is a maker, (re)searcher, teacher and tinkerer, working in (graphic) design and education. Throughout the years she has worked for design studios where expertise ranged from wayfinding, design research for public space to digital strategies and exhibition design for cultural organizations. Her practice consists of different activities: research, design, teaching. She considers teaching as an experimental design process. Simona finds creative insights while struggling to understand something. Website: aswemaythink.net
An open exploration as a presentation in public
Simona did a project with an algorithm describing a video image. It started when she was invited to participate in a workshop, organized by an old student in collaboration with a gallery. She took the opportunity to make a work… Lees verder
Teaching research as a maker
The way Simona teaches research, is not the way research was taught to her. It was always very theorised. She noticed that research is something you practice, you do. For her research is a way of figuring out how to… Lees verder
Working with clients means designing three options
The way Simona perceives herself when she’s presenting herself and her design work for a whole group of potential clients, for example for a museum, she’s way more serious compared to how she is in the classroom. Teaching feels like an open… Lees verder
Developing ways to shut down for a while
Last year Simona took it slower for some time. She even took ‘resting’ as a learning opportunity. She tried to find different ways to do nothing. To create situations in which she could get more often bored.