Barbara Stelmachowska

Barbara Stelmachowska is a designer and researcher. Works in the field of sustainable, socially engaged design, using everyday observations to create alternative scenarios for the existing reality. In her Ph.D. studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, she explores the directions in which human nutrition may evolve in the future. She devotes her scientific work to the exploration of alternative systems, such as growing edible algae. She is fascinated by the bond formed between a houseplant and a man. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Design, University of Arts in Poznan. She was a finalist in the international competition makeme! 2015, Young Design 2016 and Electrolux Design Lab 2016. She won the Haier Design Prize by IF. For the last few years, she has been working mainly with ceramics. She developed her skills under the guidance of Marek Cecula in Ćmielów Design Studio, in the Manufactory studio in Berlin and during a masterclass with John Colbeck in La Meridiana, Tuscany. In 2022 she founded the ceramic studio La Loba Design Lab.