Agata Jaworska is a designer, curator and writer based in Amsterdam.
Recent exhibitions include: In No Particular Order (Stimuleringsfonds), Sense Nonsense (Van Abbemuseum), Phenomenal (Museo Madre, Napoli), Coming Soon: Real Imaginary Futures (Bureau Europa), Dialetheia (Sandberg Design Department) and Underbelly (Sandberg Design Department). Agata is active in design education at Sandberg Instituut, Design Academy Eindhoven, Royal College of Art (London), ArtEZ Institute of the Arts (Arnhem), Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam) and Cornell University (New York).
With Giovanni Innella she initiated Institute of Relevant Studies, a studio for curation, research and design. Permanently in a state of beta, IoRS develops new models for business and culture as a form of design and expression.
With co-founder of Droog, Renny Ramakers, Agata curated the Droog Lab series of projects Here, There, Everywhere from 2009–2012 and was co-editor of the recently published book on the series.
Agata graduated from IM Masters at Design Academy Eindhoven (2008, cum laude) with Made in Transit, a concept that was awarded Best Invention by TIME Magazine and was exhibited at MoMA (New York).
Contact
+31 6 253 981 74
@agatajaworska
Curating
2014 — Sense Nonsense, with Thomas Widdershoven, Jan Konings and Ina Hollmann, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2014 — In No Particular Order, with Jeremy Jansen and Johannes Schwartz, Stimuleringsfonds Grant Programme for Talent Development, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
2014 — Phenomenal, with Giovanni Innella, MADRE, Museum of contemporary Art Donna REgina, Naples
2014 — Coming Soon: Real Imaginary Futures, with Giovanni Innella, Lukas Feireiss, Lara Schrijver, Piet Vollaard, Roosje Klap and Saskia van Stein, Bureau Europa, Maastricht
2014 — Dialetheia, Design Department Graduation, Sandberg Instituut
2014 — SZHKSMZ, Droog Lab with TD, Shenzhen Biennale
2013 — Underbelly, Design Department Graduation, Sandberg Instituut
2012 — Identity Land, Droog Lab, Z33, Belgium
2012 — Material Matters, Droog Lab with TD, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
2012 — Material Matters, Droog Lab with TD, International Furniture Fair, Milan
2011 — Fantastical Investments, Droog Lab with Metahaven, Droog, Amsterdam
2012 — Open House, Droog Lab with Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Levittown, New York
2009 — Design That Thinks, with Giovanni Innella, Superdesign, Lecce
2008 — S1NGLETOWN, Droog, Architectural Biennale, Venice
Teaching
— Design Department, Sandberg Instituut
— Contextual Design, Design Academy Eindhoven
— Graphic Design, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem
— Product Design, Data Design, Future Products, Willem de Kooning Academy
— Department of Architecture, Cornell University, ongoing
— Platform 20, Design Products, Royal College of Art, 2013 – 2014
— The Why Factory, Delft University of Technology, 2013 (guest critic)
Writing
— Nature through the Windshield: Koert van Mensvoort interview, with Brendan Cormier, Volume #35, 2013
— The IKEA Dream, Volume #33, 2012
— An Economic Zone Against All Odds: Matias Echanove and Rahul Sivrastava interview, Volume #32, 2012
Clients
ArtEZ Institute of the Arts
Bureau Europa
Cornell University
Design Academy Eindhoven
Droog
Royal College of Arts
Sandberg Instituut
Stimuleringsfonds
Volume
Willem de Kooning Academy