Mateja Panter: HIŠA 1797
ZAVOD PIKA, SO.P., Slovenia
She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and she has been working as a freelancer in architecture, interior space, product and graphics design, creative consulting, and has been engaged in expert publishing. She has exhibited her work at Salone Satellite in Milan, Re:design Europe in Berlin, World Design Capital Helsinki, Bancs de l`Europe in Strasbourg, Future of Living (Vienna, Berlin, Zagreb) and several independent and group exhibitions in Slovenia. Over the last years, more than 60 articles about her work were published in expert media, among them interviews and presentations on the national television. She received several awards for her work.
Her projects are always interdisciplinary cooperating with artists from other fields to make up the creative platform giving the projects added value. She is a member of several professional associations, the founder of the non-governmental organization PIKA – Institute for Spatial Interventions and Creative Attractions and the online design platform CENTER01.
She is interested in the influence brought by hyper-urbanisation, turbo-capitalism and IT technologies, in the development of cultural models, social environments, in areas of creative industries and in features of “the local”. She publicly advocates for the promotion of the architectural and design profession.
She is continuously trying to define creative ambience with a special atmosphere. High-quality creation of space does not represent a mere architectural service; it offers much more than that. It is an interactive process through which visions are realised by creating both real spaces and virtual environments for experimental projects. The challenge of spatial interventions and creative attractions is to design intelligent spaces embedded with quality into the surroundings, spaces which are user-friendly, feature functional perfection, visual appeal and sustainability.