Ludwiczak Beata
Head of Foreign Languages Institute
English
I graduated from the Silesian University in Katowice (English Language and Culture); in 2017 I obtained the doctoral degree in the History of Art Institute at the University of Wrocław.
In the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław I started working in the Foreign Languages Institute. As a result of my research into the language of art and design, I created an English coursebook for students of interior architecture and design entitled “Design English”, and in 2009 won a grant to have it published (from the Scholarship and Training Fund, the so-called Norwegian Mechanism).
The idea of helping students make use of the language knowledge gained during my classes guided me when I created the International Relations Office of my home Academy from scratch. For many years – as the Institutional Coordinator for the Erasmus(+) Programme and International Relations – I co-created the international policy of the institution, laying the foundations for its current foreign activities.
The research of the language of design took me to writing a PhD dissertation in the area of history of design. Now as an associate professor, faculty member of the Department of Design, I support it in research and teaching. My research interests include semantics in design, service design, as well as theory and history design, especially from the Wrocław environment.
In the recent years I have taken up curating. I have curated two joint exhibitions, “Design – a barometer of social change”, Galeria Sztuka na Miejscu, 2022, and “Design as the Art of Negotiation. The Exhibition of Implemented Projects by the Faculty Members of the Department of Design”, Galeria Neon, 2024. Exhibitions, as well as publications that accompany them, are my opportunity to research and promote design.
I am the author of the English name of the institution: „The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław".
My motto is: „Teaching is lifelong learning" (Rowena Reed Kostellow).
Courses
- History of design
- Service design
- Methodology of writing MFA thesis
- English as a Foreign Language in the field of design
Publications
Ludwiczak B., Design – barometr zmian społecznych, [in:] Design – barometr zmian społecznych, red. Beata Ludwiczak, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. E. Gepperta we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 2022
Ludwiczak B., Duma i pożądanie – badanie emocji w ocenie produktów przez użytkowników z wykorzystaniem zaadaptowanej wersji narzędzia badawczego PrEmo, „inAW Journal. Multidisciplinary Academic Magazine”, NR 4 (2022)
Ludwiczak B., Forma podąża za funkcjami – badanie empiryczne weryfikujące koncepcję czterech funkcji produktów wywodzącą się z teorii języka produktu Jochena Grosa, „inAW Journal. Multidisciplinary Academic Magazine”, Tom 2 (2021), NR 2
Ludwiczak B., Emocje i praktyczność w percepcji pojazdów przez projektantów, „Systemy wspomagania w inżynierii produkcji. Komunikacja w obszarach sztuki i techniki” Vol. 9, issue 1, 2020
Ludwiczak B., Nowe stare perspektywy Bauhausu. Recenzja z nowych muzeów niemieckiej uczelni w Weimarze i Dessau, „Quart. Kwartalnik Instytutu Historii Sztuki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego” nr 1 (55) 2020
Ludwiczak B., Mosty Wrocławia, [in:] Wrocławska Szkoła Projektowania Środków Transportu. 1966-2018, red. Wilhelm Semaniszyn, Jan Kukuła, Piotr Jędrzejewski, Beata Ludwiczak, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. E. Gepperta we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 2019
Ludwiczak B., Metafora we wzornictwie polskim drugiej połowy XX wieku, „Quart. Kwartalnik Instytutu Historii Sztuki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego” Nr 4 (42)/2016
Ludwiczak B., Design English. An English coursebook for students of Interior Architecture and Industrial Design, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. E. Gepperta we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 2011
Ludwiczak B., Stage Design. An English coursebook for students, [unpublished script] Wrocław 2015
Office hours
Tuesday 12.15-12.45 a.m.
Room 101G