SWPS University
PROJECTS | 2021
Soapilizer
Aleksandra Kondela, Piotr Kasprzak, Hania Stankiewicz, Oliwia Rybczyńska, Jakub Olejnik
Soapilizer is a biodegradable soap that doubles as a plant fertilizer. The project is meant to create a circular system for farms.
Finalist Team
Instructors - 2021
Karolina Sulich
Karolina Sulich is a biologist enthusiast and post-artist and is interested in post-disciplinary practices. In her work, she connects arts, humanities, technology, and life sciences. She has worked with microbiomes, as well as cell cultures. Her interests lie in molecular and synthetic biology, their possibilities, and their impact on society and the planet. She has been an avid proponent of citizen science and biohacking initiatives. She has been engaged in the Global Community Bio Summit movement since 2018.
Paulina Grabowska
Paulina Grabowska is an architect and innovator in the field of sustainable development, the investigation of circular economy schemes, climate change and mitigation processes, urban farming, and different kinds of pollution as resources. In her designs, she transforms multidisciplinary research into technologies and processes. She is the founder of Nas Dra Design and lecturer at the School of Form.
Monika Rosińska, Program Coordinator
Monika Rosińska, PhD is a Lecturer at the School of Form, SWPS University. Her research focuses on contemporary design practices (speculative, participatory, and non-anthropocentric design). She defended her PhD at the Institute of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She is an author and co-author of many articles and books on design, such as: Zoepolis. Towards human and non-human community (bęc zmiana, 2021), Design utopias. Between affirmation and critique of modernity (Universitas, 2020), Collaboratory. Participatory social change (Fundacja SPOT., 2012), Considering the use. Designers, Objects and Social Life (bęc zmiana, 2010). She participated in many scientific and artistic research projects; a curator of design exhibitions.
Stanisław Łoboziak
Stanisław Łoboziak is a biologist, trained in molecular biology. He works as a the head of a biology laboratory at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw. He has developed and collaborated in many projects. One of his recent accomplishments is the creation of the spinach-chicken leaf, the first cultured meat in Poland, which was spontaneously consumed during "Przemiany" Festival in 2019.