Supervisor in the Doctoral School

She graduated from the E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, with a degree in Ceramic Design (2003-2008). She then participated in the International Post-Graduate Course 'Kaolin' Art and Design in Contemporary Ceramics, ENSA Limoges, France and in Jingdezhen, China (2013-2014). In 2015 she obtained a PhD, and in 2024 earned her habilitation in the discipline of fine arts. She co-founded the design group Wzorowo and is a member of Łuhuu! performance art group and the Food Think Tank collective. Marusińska is an interdisciplinary artist, socio-cultural animator and the author of installations, objects, sculptures, video works, performances and site-specific works. She uses various tools and techniques, primarily focusing on ceramics and glass.

Achievement

1. 2022, 2023 'Looking Through Objects. Women in Contemporary Polish Design' – Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallin (Estonia), Nomus Branch of The National Museum in Gdańsk (Poland)
2. 2018 'Homage to Beauty', Prague International Design Festival Designblok – Art House Lapidarium of the Prague National Museum (Czech Republic)
3. 2018 'The Other Side of Things. Polish Design after 1989' – National Museum in Krakow (Poland)
4. 2016 European Triennial for Ceramics and Glass – Grand Hall of the Anciens Abattoirs of the City of Mons (Belgium)
5. 2016 'Pragmatism and Beauty', XXI Triennale International Exhibition – Milano (Italy)

Language of consultations: Polish, English

Characteristic of the projects and research in which the PhD student is to be subsumed, including the expected practical and theoretical competencies of the PhD student

• Activities at the intersection of art, design, crafts and science. Socially engaged ventures.
• Contextual ceramics - all types of activities using a ceramic medium, taking into account and emphasizing the broad context in which they are carried out and to which they refer.
• Design and artistic strategies based on social sensitivity and empathy towards other people and non-human beings. Possible approaches to the topics discussed: pragmatic, critical, engaged, speculative.
• Conceptual and formal experiments.

Expected competences of the doctoral student: workshop skills in the field of ceramics, willingness to experiment, moving in interdisciplinary areas, interest in current social, political, economic and environmental phenomena, including those related to material culture - the relationship between humans and objects.

Characteristic of didactic cooperation between the supervisor and the PhD student

Interdisciplinary activities, cooperation with external entities.

Expected competencies of a doctoral student: communication skills, openness, empathy, high work ethic, awareness of the purpose of undertaken activities and their impact on various aspects of the environment.