 Alright, so hello everyone. My name is Irina Antonietz and I'm gonna shortly introduce myself and my program. I will share the screen. Can you see Lost in Nature exhibition? Yes. And so here's the video. So this is one of the paintings and kind of in my style. Then that was just some description of the exhibition that I made. And that's why I said like after this exhibition I realized I wanted to grow as an artist. And so we have a studio that we share and everyone has their own space. This is one of the photos from my space. So basically you bring everything you need, your materials and you can stay there as long as you want, work on your project, experiment. This is the photo from one of our open exhibitions, kind of open studio it was called. Where each of us was sharing the projects that we made. These are some of the fundamental things that I'm doing. I'm researching microorganisms, fungi and my art is more related to bio-art. That's the field that I chose. All of us we have very different topics like feminism, social problems. And we have performance artists, we have the artists that are working with clay. My field is more of this type of art related to nature and microorganisms. I also do animations which I am developing right now also, for example this. So I'm creating artworks and then doing various movements with them. Yes, so these are some of the... There is no beginning, there is no end. Everything is changing, everything is growing. Everything is breathing. Yes, and this is in the studio, that's how we work. So we have I think like four classes, but I would say that our work is really based on own research as well. It's important to spend time yourself doing your own research because the practice is really research based. But the professors are also always available for individual classes if you need to discuss your projects. We also have art related classes, video creation related classes, kind of philosophical classes. Very interesting and overall I'm enjoying this studying and all of the classes are useful for me. I also like that we have quite a lot of freedom in expression. In what we are doing, in choosing the topics, I just wanted to say also that we have great social life. These are just some of the pictures from our events. We have like annual topics where you can participate, interact. I mean if you love social life then Prague College is a great place to be. Yes. Yeah, overall I also love that we have a small classes. You have a lot of individual attention and also I love the exchange between all of us because all of the people in the class are from different countries, different cultures. And I love to learn from them and hear the feedback from people that had absolutely different experience in life, in culture, in art. I think this is really important experience for anyone who wants to develop in art or in design and agree to hear people from other cultures. Yeah, and I love the artist talks. So almost each two weeks I would say they have like invited artists and or designers and it's always very interesting to listen to them. These are pre-elections that you can visit. Yes, I think I'm done and I'll answer more in the questions. Well, thank you. Hi, my name is Sky, I am studying the master's of future design. And I will tell you a bit about my program and share with you a little presentation I made for this. Okay, I hope you can see this. I should say I'm a future designer. So about the program, the master's of future design is for us. I started only like I'm only in the first year I started in September it's been 100% online. I haven't seen most of my classmates I saw two of them, all the way in the beginning, before the classes even started, but we are eight students from all over the world. We have someone from America someone from India and people from Europe like literally everywhere over the year over the world, which is kind of funny when we have classes they are always at five in the evening for Europe time, or like for practice. Well, so it's a daytime for everyone. Everyone has a lecture bachelor background, but they vary like I'm in class with really different backgrounds of people, but most of them are pretty creative already. This study is very independent like you work on projects, and you have to kind of come up with your own process with what you want to do and how you're going to do it so it's takes a bit of planning and, and a lot of communication with your teacher basically, and I spend about six hours in class and next to that I also spend time of course on my project because the classes are mostly just constant consultation, which means that the working on the project actually happens throughout the week. And like, usually like 15 hours or so on school in a week on sometimes more sometimes less but it's very open to how deep you want to go with research because if you're really enjoying something that you can go on and on and like make it a full time study out of it. I'll tell you a bit about the courses I had I had to in the last semester which were innovation by design and design research methods, and I have to know in this semester which are future design practice and critical thinking and theoretical context. So I'll tell you a little bit about each of them. So, innovation by design is about different approaches of design so it's not it's very common to design for a person for a group of people or target audience which are usually all like humans, but it can go beyond that so you could be thinking of designing for, I don't know, animals, the planet or, or even like designing without with tools that are not here yet, but might be in the future so it's really innovative and well we had some lectures about it with workshops, and a lot of consultation. And, well, since we are online workshops are online and we use mirror for that so we can all kind of like their inputs on boards and go through it with the classes. So I came up. Well, this kind of my project I started with the politics of design because I was inspired by my classmates and how people from different cultures look differently at design and design choices. And I was not like, oh, I want to do something that will give an immersive experience of, of this light of a culture. And I started out with thinking like, oh, that could be PR but I already soon realized that PR is something we already have here it's not very far going. I came up with this idea that actually if you want something else that's very immersive, you could be thinking about drugs and so it came up with the idea of appeal that will give you a cultural experience. And then I thought like how am I going to, because I'm not going to make any pills, of course, but how would this concept be perceived by people. And so that made me think of Elon Musk and his brain implant chip that can like do something with your eyes and all these really futuristic ideas. So I kind of made a fake news website where I had on mask, a deep fake of Elon Musk, giving a presentation about this topic. This is the first time I got to work with AI which really inspired me for the things I did later in this semester. And so that's about innovation by design and I had also designed research methods which was really human centered design so kind of the opposite, really unlike how to work with people and Yeah, trying out different research methods. And we did that in teams. So I was working with a classmate from Saudi Arabia, Arabia, and we kind of went into this research project together, and we were inspired by also again like differences in the culture and how, like what stands out for both of us and we interviewed Syrian people we. Oh yeah we kind of took Syrians because he was from Syria as well and I'm from the Netherlands so there's big cultural difference and we kind of went this whole project, finding out in common was, what's something that's interesting, interesting for both cultures and so we came up with this app about superstition. And here you can see like basically our whole research with also in Miro which all these people we've interviewed and collected data off. Well, this is the final product we made so we made basically an application about superstitions where you can do I can stop and these classes were mostly lectures and also consultations when we were further in the project. So this semester we are working, we are doing a design practice, which is really like we were asked to think about what you want to do in the future and what do you need to get there. So like developing skills and networking and creating a portfolio. Yeah, this is just great detail but yeah I started this project about artificial intelligence because I really like to work with new technologies and I think when you like these topics, you're really at the right place at future design. So, I kind of start learning coding, but this is all did research into AI in the game industry and 3D art and how to make art using artificial intelligence and computer programs basically. But it's very free like I went all the way into this topic, but I have classmates who is designing life in space I have a classmate who is making an augmented reality layer over crack and all these kinds of, I think a real cool project. This is something I'm working on now like this basically my research, what I'm going to present in the end so I have this really big research I didn't have anything specific coming out but a lot of like loose ends so I kind of combine them. All these loose ends into Instagram page which I'm going, which I'm working on now and hoping to present soon to my teacher and classmates. And the last course is like critical thinking and theory, which is a lot of like philosophical ideas. These are mainly classes where we listen to the teacher was just giving us a lectures and then we have discussion about it. And we're just supposed to like show how we apply these things in our projects and some of the topics are like, for example, what are objects, how do what are different perspectives on planet Earth and a lot about science and what to trust will not and yeah just a lot of talking basically. So last part of my showing my presentation is just like just like we have also a lot of freedom, you get to choose your topics yourself. You have to also like research yourself and set up what you want to accomplish also yourself. There's though there's a lot of time, like a lot of classes where you can just discuss with your teacher or with your classmates get feedback on what you're doing like have them think with you. And these kind of things and they're really encouraging you to think beyond what we do now so really like futuristic. There should also be some base. Well, some classes are a bit less than others in that but yeah the teachers are really nice and of course I get really inspired by all these people from all over the world. And next that well, what I said before like you can kind of choose how much time and effort you want to put into the research. So if you have a side job or full time job you can actually do this kind of thing still, it will be a maybe less of the time you can put into it. But yeah if you have a lot of time you can make it really like expanded to what you want to accomplish and that's really nice I think. So yeah that's basically all I wanted to say about the future design part of the master. But yeah I see also a lot of how do you say that like similarities between fine arts and future design like I think basically the masters means is very free and you get a lot of opportunities to go in the direction that you want and to like shape it towards your own needs. Yeah but you need to be like ready to work on your own a lot and yeah to have like your initiative because it's not bachelor's anymore. Yeah I think the best is if you step into this master's with some sort of goal like you can always like change your path throughout. But if you have something in mind because I really thought I wanted to do more with these new technologies and that keeps kind of a baseline for me. Did you also have a certain direction you already wanted when you started. For example future design or while you said yeah like with fine arts you really knew what you wanted but when you started to design. Yeah yeah I was like more into ecological projects and so on and we were designing like some stuff for the planet and one like some. So AI projects but like more related to how to save the planet how to teach people to be more ecologically respectful. But then like on the second year of future design I started going into microorganisms so bio arts. It's so connected because designers is really connected to art. At least at least what I learned from future design is that like everything is connected designer is not a narrow field designer designer is everything it's a doctor it's a searcher it's a I don't know it's a teacher it's everything. So it's kind of mixed now. Yeah definitely I agree. So I think we are kind of at the point where we where we need to or where we could answer some questions if there are any. How much time do you spend in a week for your for your studies. I think it's pretty same like I decide myself I mean of course their classes and they would take like maybe seven hours I don't know 10 hours. But then you might work every day on your own. I spend lots of time in studio sometimes. It's closer to some presentations that I spent even more time and yeah but you can schedule your own life work really. Sometimes I can work all day and then like rest it depends really. Yeah that's exactly same for me like I sometimes spend the whole day just going deep into this research or designing but then another day I could just like plan it differently. Yeah. And and you have a studio to work in. And do you work there with like people from different also from like all over the world. Yes well for us also it was different quite different I think because it was covered time and we had to like for artists it was crazy of course but still like we had studio available but we had to schedule it. There were some times when we were able to actually work all together and it was really cool because like we could give each other feedback on our projects. Yeah that's really nice. I wonder if you're like. If you're if you had also any online classmates because for me it's so different like I had everything online. Absolutely like it was quite different here like we also had like people from America and if I'm not mistaken from Egypt from a Singapore and it was kind of crazy because you had to feed into this time frames. It is also a nice experience still and I would say like a zoom classes are good because because you really save your time and you don't spend time like going to the school going back and doing everything from home. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah, so, so maybe like a mix of zoom classes and real classes would be perfect thing. Yeah, I think that would be really cool yeah. And maybe I would add this for this question about what resources are there available. I would mention our library. It's really great. Like if you if you use it. There are many, many things that are free to use and to do your research if you have time for that to decide library. Yeah, yeah, I also would mention the resources at school I know there's this. There's this guy in the basement. Like any camera or microphone or anything that if you're in practice that you could borrow. And it's really nice because actually for this deep faking I found out that it would be best for me to like record someone on the green screen and I could do all of that at school which was really nice. And even got help from this guy to set it all up. So that's actually also a good one. Yes. Yeah and about the location, we have for now to places so for designers I would say it's a bishops card right, which is more like in the center of Prague and then there is pregovka which is more for artists and then it will be also if I'm not mistaken for business departments as well, but it's more of an art district. Yeah, I have been a bishop's court like this one time before the class started. And for the rest I have only I know the like the main place but yeah it seems like it would like if well for me it wasn't for a long time that only me and one other were in Prague so didn't really go there but I think you would be here with classmate. It's nice to like have a place to go to. It's nice really because also there are computers, there's some books, tables, so you can just. I used to work there all day, like when COVID just started last year and I was doing my final project I spent like literally days at bishops card I felt like more comfortable to work there it was like kind of office for me. You can come anytime there is some food like that you can keep there is I think there is a fridge or like microwave or something like that. I think we answered quite a lot. I think they do. And if there's no more questions and I don't really know what else to tell. I see no more questions so we can finish. I hope it was helpful. Yeah, I want to thank everyone for watching and maybe see you some someday. Yes, we are always available right for for if if there are any questions later. Definitely. All right. Bye.