Agata Szydłowska

Agata Szydłowska (Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw) is a researcher, author and curator. A graduate of art history at the University of Warsaw, the Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, she has a PhD in ethnology. She works at the Department of Design Theory at the Faculty of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She is interested in interdisciplinary research on design, particularly the intertwining of design with politics and social life. She has authored and co-authored books on typography, Polish graphic design and magazines from the People's Republic of Poland as well as scientific and popular science articles. In 2019, she co-created (together with Małgorzata Gurowska and Maciej Siuda) an exhibition in the Polish pavilion at the XXII Triennale di Milano ‘Broken Nature. Design Takes on Human Survival’ entitled ‘MYCOsystem’. She is also co-creator of the long-running ZOEpolis project on interspecies communities, which includes exhibitions, artistic research and a book.