Karolína PLÁŠKOVÁ
karolina.plaskova@gmail.com; +420 731249543
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Czech native speaker
Slovak passive
English C1
German B2
Spanish B1
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, CMS
EDUCATION
2015–now • Architecture (MSc), Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, AT
2015–2017 • Social Design – Arts as Urban Innovation (MA), Institute of Arts and Society, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, AT
2013–2014 • Architecture, Institute of Architecture and Planning, University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, LI
2011–2015 • Architecture and Urban Design (Bc.), Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology, Brno, CZ
WORK EXPERIENCE & PROJECTS
2011–2015 • member of SOFA (Students’ Organization of Faculty of Architecture), Brno, CZ
› Bohuslav Fuchs’s Prize, competition for the best student design project
› Containers to the world, exhibition of students design projects
› Format 400, pecha kucha evening
› On the Edge of Architecture, lecture series
› Students for Students, lecture series
08–10/2014 • intern at Pilsen – European Capital of Culture 2015, Pilsen, CZ
› Pilsen Architecture Day
02–09/2015 • part of the team Foster the City [Pěstuj prostor], Pilsen, CZ
› Pilsen Architecture Day 2015
› Pilsen Architecture Manual
07–10/2015 • co-organizer of exhibition and symposium Hands-On Urbanism at the Moravian Gallery, Brno, CZ
03–06/2016 • social design project Designs Against the Homeless, Vienna, AT
› intervention: at Praterstern, in June 2016
› radio coverage: “The Struggle with Benches. Sitting in Public Space”, on Ö1 Radio: Moment – Leben heute, 12 Mai 2016
› article: Plášková, K. (2016). Nepřátelská architektura. ERA21, 2016(04), 76–77
› exhibition: part of the TRADERS Exhibition, Dutch Design Week, 22–30 October 2016 in Eindhoven, NL
› guided tour: part of the Hustle & Bustle Endless Tour, 2 December 2016, Vienna, AT
› publication: illustration in SYN #13 – taktlos. Entgleisungen der Ordnung, 2017
› exhibition: part of the StadtFabrik [City Factory], Vienna Biennale 2017, 21 June – 1 October 2017 in MAK, Vienna, AT
› radio coverage: “Wenn Frauen kein Zuhause haben”, on Ö1 Radio: Journal Panorama, 23 August 2018
› TV show coverage: “Wohin mit denen die keiner will?”, on ORF2: Am Schauplatz, 27 September 2018
› exhibition: MAK DESIGN LAB, Vienna Biennale for Change 2019, 29 May – 6 October 2019 in MAK, Vienna, AT
› article: Wölfl, L. (2019). Wieso Parkbänke so verdammt ungemütlich sind Moment, 4. 10. 2019
› conference poster: CARE – Cities. Action. Research and Education, 20–22 November 2019, Vienna, AT
08–10/2016 • intern at dérive – Society for Urban Research: urbanize! festival 2016, Vienna, AT
12/2016 & 09/2017 • volunteer at Platform for Social Housing, CZ
02/2017–03/2017 • intern at Salon für Kunstbuch, Vienna, AT
11/2016–03/2017 • social design project U2 Turnover, Vienna, AT
08/2017–09/2017 • intern at ERA21 magazine, Brno, CZ
11/2016–02/2018 • research project Urban Knautschzone, Social Design – Arts as Urban Innovation, Vienna, AT
› conference poster: Mapping Univer©ities: Eine Vermessung der Beziehungen von Universität und Stadt, 23–24 February 2017, Innsbruck, AT
› conference presentation: International Conference on Working Class Districts: Urban Transformations und Qualities of Life in the Growing City, 14–15 September 2017, Vienna, AT
› publication: Schraml, C., M. Färber, L. Kohlmayr, K. Plášková & A. Valencic (2017). Eine urbane Knautschzone mit Potential. Der öffentliche Raum in einem Stadtteil zwischen Prater und Donau. Vienna (research study for the City of Vienna, MA 19 – Architecture and Urban Design)
› article: Schraml, C. & K. Plášková (2018). Urban Knautschzone – A long-term project of research and operations in the residential area located between Vienna’s Prater and the Danube. in M. Diebäcker, I. Glogar, C. Stoik, A. Bengesser, A. Eder, P. Putz & A.-M. Simionovici et al. (eds.), Urban Transformations and Qualities of Life in the Growing City: Book of Abstracts. Vienna: University of Applied Sciences FH Campus
11/2016–12/2017
05/2017–07/2019
• co-organizer of a conference Plan for Brno [Plán pro Brno], Brno, CZ
• part of the team Foster the City [Pěstuj prostor], Pilsen, CZ;
› Pilsen Architecture Manual
› reports from lectures
03/2017–09/2019
• curator of the project Dear Architects… [Drazí architekti...], CZ
› exhibition: Dear Architects… [Drazí architekti...] in Brno Gallery of Architecture, 13–27 June 2017, Brno, CZ
› publication: Plášková, K. (ed.) (2018). Drazí architekti…. Brno: Galerie Architektury Brno
› exhibition: Dear Architects… Ethics in Architecture [Drazí architekti... Etika architektury] in Brno Gallery of Architecture, 20 September – 7 October 2018, Brno, CZ
› exhibition: Dear Architects… Ethics in Architecture [Drazí architekti... Etika architektury] in Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, 10–26 October 2018, Prague, CZ
› screening & discussion: at Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology, 29 November 2018, Brno, CZ
› screening & discussion: at Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University in Prague, 3 December 2018, Prague, CZ
› screening & discussion: as part of the lecture series Human Dimension of Architecture [Lidský rozměr architektury], organized by Foster the City [Pěstuj prostor], 15 May 2019, Pilsen, CZ
› presentation: at Urbanism and Equality + [Urbanismus a rovnost +], organized by Gogolák+Grasse, 11 July 2019, Prague, CZ
› discussion: Architect’s Responsibility [Zodpovednosť architekta] with Martin Jančok, Michal Janák and Petr Lenyi, moderated by Bohdan Smieška, organized by Local
Act, at A4 – priestor súčasnej kultúry, 25 September 2019, Bratislava, SK
10/2018–12/2020 • curator of lecture series for the Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology & Brno Gallery of Architecture & VI PER, 2019, Brno & Prague, CZ
› Are we architects? On Education, Architectural Profession and Institutional Critique
› No More Architecture
04/2019–05/2022 • urbanist at Public Space Office, Prague Institute of Planning and Development, Prague, CZ
08/2021–01/2023 • curator at the Brno Gallery of Architecture / of the Space for Engaged Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology, Brno, CZ
› exhibition & lectures: Andi Schmied: Private Views. A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan in Brno Gallery of Architecture, 7 October – 26 November 2021, Brno, CZ
› exhibition & lectures: Gabu Heindl: Urban Conflicts – A Housing Manifesto in Brno Gallery of Architecture, 22 December 2021 – 20 March 2022, Brno, CZ
› jury member for an open call of the gallery 45 000 l: Volume for Engaged Architecture
› exhibition & lectures: Tracing Spaces: Stop and Go in Prior / OC Dornych, 24 November –18 December 2022, Brno, CZ
06/2022–now • urbanist in the team Prague – City for Life, Arnika, Prague, CZ
06/2022–now • curator of the project Dear Architects… [Drazí architekti...], CZ
› exhibition: Dear Architects… Architecture as Labour [Drazí architekti...
Architektura jako práce] in Brno Gallery of Architecture, 29 November 2022 –22 January 2023, Brno, CZ
07/2022–10/2022 • curator of the Czech Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition (2023) in Venice: project The Laboratory of No-More-Precarious Future
07/2022–now • curator of the gallery of architecture in Prague, Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ
PUBLICATIONS
Schraml, C., M. Färber, L. Kohlmayr, K. Plášková & A. Valencic (2017). Eine urbane Knautschzone mit Potential. Der öffentliche Raum in einem Stadtteil zwischen Prater und Donau. Vienna (research study for the City of Vienna, MA 19 – Architecture and Urban Design). Available at: https://issuu.com/socialdesignstudio/docs/studie_knautschzone_final_ reduziert
Plášková, K. (ed.) (2018). Drazí architekti…. Brno: Galerie Architektury Brno. Available at: galerieachitektury.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/drazi-architekti1.pdf
Plášková, K. & F. Ditrich (eds.) (2021). Katalog pražských hřbitovů. Prague: Prague Institute of Planning and Development. Available at: https://iprpraha.cz/assets/files/ files/2778244b57550bcbfb797fde66728924.pdf
Plášková, K. & F. Ditrich (eds.) (2021). Pražské hřbitovy, plug-in Manuálu tvorby veřejných prostranství. Prague: Prague Institute of Planning and Development. Available at: https://iprpraha.cz/assets/files/files/07c0198d89e6f2e3cd2304c80415d861.pdf
ARTICLES
Kristek, J. & K. Plášková (2016, August 15). Architektura sedmého dne (interview with Kuba Snopek). archiweb. Available at: www.archiweb.cz/news/architektura-sedmeho-dne
Kristek, J. & K. Plášková (2016). Může architektura zabíjet? O morálce, profesní etice a lidských právech (interview with Michael Kimmelman). ERA21, 2016(04), 26–27
Kristek, J. & K. Plášková (2016). Globalizace, města, migrace (interview with Saskia Sassen). Smart Cities, 2016(04), 54–56
Plášková, K. (2016). Nepřátelská architektura. ERA21, 2016(04), 76–77
Kristek, J. & K. Plášková (2016). Od integrace k rozmanitosti (interview with Ursula Struppe). ERA21, 2016(06), 32–34
Kristek, J. & K. Plášková (2017). Az W. Starost o architekturu (interview with Angelika Fitz). ERA21, 2017(02), 28–30
Plášková, K. (2017). Assemble. Jak stavíme v Az W (exhibition review). ERA21, 2017(04), 13 Plášková, K. (2017). Architektura a současné město (book review). A2, 2017(19), 31
Klíma, P. & Plášková, K. (2017, May 19). Přesahy architektury: má smysl usilovat o kvalitu vystavěného prostředí, i když úspěch se zdá být daleko [online]. Available at: http:// pestujprostor.plzne.cz/presahy-architektury-ma-smysl-usilovat-o-kvalitu-vystavenehoprostredi/
Klíma, P. & Plášková, K. (2017, June 6). Přesahy architektury: architektonická osvěta se přirozeně doplňuje s navrhováním, ukázala Marcela Steinbachová [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/presahy-architektury-marcela-steinbachova/
Klíma, P. & Plášková, K. (2017, July 8). Přesahy architektury: navrhujeme podle hudebních partitur nebo biologických principů, říká Petr Hájek [online]. Available at:
http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/presahy-architektury-navrhujeme-podle-hudebnich-partiturbiologickych-principu-rika-petr-hajek/
Klíma, P. & Plášková, K. (2017, July 9). Přesahy architektury: zkoušení, improvizace a přehodnocování jako přístup k navrhování pro komunitu [online]. Available at:
http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/presahy-architektury-zkouseni-improvizace-prehodnocovani/
Plášková, K. (2017). Bottom-up & DIT & YIMBY v Plzni (festival review). ERA21, 2017(05), 13
Haberl, A., C. Heinzl, L. Kuttner, L. Loverix, F. Paxton, K. Plášková, C. Rindler-Schantl, B. Sequeira, R. Sedlitzky (2017). Interest(s) in Diverse Public Space. In Y. Franz & C. Hintermann (eds.), Unravelling Complexities. Understanding Public Spaces (169–170).
Vienna
Schraml, C. & K. Plášková (2018). Urban Knautschzone – A long-term project of research and operations in the residential area located between Vienna’s Prater and the Danube. in M. Diebäcker, I. Glogar, C. Stoik, A. Bengesser, A. Eder, P. Putz & A.-M. Simionovici et al. (eds.), Urban Transformations and Qualities of Life in the Growing City: Book of Abstracts. Vienna: University of Applied Sciences FH Campus. Available at: wienerwissenswelt.fhcampuswien. ac.at/images/pdf/confbooks/UrbanTransformations2018A4.pdf
Plášková, K. (2017, April 20). Hybatelé architektury: středočeský zázrak v Dolních Břežanech [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/hybatele-architektury-stredocesky-zazrakv-dolnich-brezanech/
Plášková, K. (2017, May 5). Hybatelé architektury: v Českých Budějovicích by chtěl vystavovat každý [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/hybatele-architektury-vcb-by-chtel-vystavovat-kazdy/
Plášková, K. (2017, May 25). Hybatelé architektury: architektura Zdeňka Fránka mluví sama za sebe [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/hybatele-architektury-architekturazdenka-franka-2/
Plášková, K. & P. Klíma (2017, June 6). Hybatelé architektury: Rostislav Švácha o oceněných novostavbách a nedoceněné poválečné architektuře [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/hybatele-rostislav-svacha/
Plášková, K., G. Mazarine & H. Niemand (2018). About the Private in the Public and the Public in the Private. in future.lab (ed.) Field Trips in Public Space 2018: Regenzglas (Süd-) Osteuropa. Vienna: University of Technology. Available at: http://www.futurelab.tuwien.ac.at/field-trips-in-public-space-2018-publikation-erschienen/ Plášková, K. & P. Klíma (2018, November 14). Architektura osmičkových roků: o vlivu přelomových událostí let 1948–1953 na plzeňskou společnost a ideály v architektuře i v tvorbě města [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/osmicky-1948-reportaz/
Plášková, K. & P. Klíma (2018, December 8). Architektura osmičkových roků: uvolňující se poměry 60. let se promítly do společnosti i do plzeňské architektury [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/osmicky-1968-reportaz/
Plášková, K. & P. Klíma (2018, December 8). Architektura osmičkových roků: o předrevoluční občanské společnosti a transformaci Stavoprojektu [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/osmicky-1989-reportaz/
Plášková, K. (2019, January 1). Plzeň – transformace města: Váně představil návrh rozvoje údolí Mže a Roudné [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/transformace-udolireky-mze/
Plášková, K. & Tabačková, Z. (2019). Reflexe revolučních reforem roku 1968 a kritický pohled na současnou praxi (conference report). ERA21, 2019(01), 13
Plášková, K. (2019, June 17). Lidský rozměr architektury: specifické potřeby seniorů jsou v architektuře často opomíjeny [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/lidskyrozmer-architektury-prvni/
Plášková, K. (2019, June 26). Lidský rozměr architektury: o roli architektů ve vztahu k (ne) bydlení [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/lidsky-rozmer-architektury-druhy/
Kristek, J. & K. Plášková (2019). Ideologie výzkumu. O kariérismu v architektonickém bádání (interview with Joan Ockman). A2, 2019(13)
Plášková, K. (2019, July 24). Lidský rozměr architektury: architektura udržitelně a pro lidi [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/lidsky-rozmer-architektury-treti/
Plášková, K. (2019, July 25). Lidský rozměr architektury: o důležitosti kritické reflexe v architektuře [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/lidsky-rozmer-architekturyctvrty/
Plášková, K. (2019). Architektura péče (exhibition review). ERA21, 2019(05), 10–11
Plášková, K. (2019). Architektonické vzdělávání má být kritické k systému (interview with Tatjana Schneider). Kapitál, 2019(12)
Plášková, K. (2020, April 07). O konfliktu mezi „politickou propagací“, odborností a zapojováním široké veřejnosti [online]. Available at: http://pestujprostor.plzne.cz/nebezpecne-znamosti-shrnuti/
Plášková, K. (2021). Hřbitovy jako zelený veřejný prostor města. Zahradnictví, 2021(11)
WORKSHOPS & SUMMER SCHOOLS & TRAININGS
07/2011 • Urban Divan; organised by 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media; Brno, CZ
04/2012 • Places with Memory – Liechtenstein Dynasty in Moravia; supervised by David Mikulášek; organised by Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology; Adamov and Brno, CZ
06/2012 • Wooden Structures; supervised by Martin Rajniš; organised by Students’ Organization of Faculty of Architecture; Brno, CZ
07/2013 • Course of Spanish Language and Rioplatense Culture; at the Centre of Languages, University of Buenos Aires; Buenos Aires, AR
09/2013 • Kompaktprojekt – What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want to change?; supervised by Anthony Burrill; organised by University of Liechtenstein; Vaduz, LI
02–05/2015 • City in Sociology in the 20th Century; supervised by Slavomíra Ferenčuhová; organised by Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University; Brno, CZ
03/2016 • Urban Infrastructures; supervised by Markus Tomaselli; organised by Faculty of Architecture, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre, BR
07/2016 • Summer School in Urban Studies: Understanding Public Spaces – Unravelling Complexities; supervised by Yvonne Franz, Christiane Hintermann, Elina Kränzle, Suzanne Hall, Susana Zapke, Elke Krasny, Joseph Heathcott, MaMi Collective, Sabine Knierbein,
Josh Grigsby, Isis Boot, Amila Sirbegovic; organised by University of Vienna; Vienna, AT
07/2016 • Summer School Social Design; supervised by Brigitte Felderer, Christina Schraml, Martin Färber; organised by Social Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna; Steindorf am Ossiacher See, AT
11/2016 • Grand Tour Italy; supervised by Brigitte Felderer, Enrico Tomassini; organised by Social Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna; Rome & Florence & Venice, IT
11/2016–10/2017 • Enhancing Sustainable Urban Development in Local Politics; supervised by Milota Sidorová, Zdenka Lammelová, Albert Eckert and partners; organised by Heinrich Böll Foundation; Brno & Prague, CZ & Bratislava, SK & Budapest, HU
03/2017–09/2017 • This City [Tuto město]; supervised by Vladimír Sitta, Kurt Gebauer, Jiří Zábran; organised by Foster the City; Pilsen, CZ
10/2017 • AMIWHATIAMTHINKINGABOUT festival school in cultural management; supervised by Denisa Václavová, Martin Sedláček, Veronika Bednářová, Ondřej Horák, Jiří Raiterman, Jana Bohutínská, Roman Černík, Jan Kroupa, Michal Adamovský; organised by 4+4 Days in Motion; Prague, CZ
07/2018 • IUS-ARU Summer School and Research Seminar – Cities in Flux: Ethnographic and Theoretical Challenges; supervised by Italo Pardo,Giuliana B. Prato, James RosbrookThompson, Jerome Krase, Gary Armstrong, Mirna Guha; organised by International Urban Symposium (IUS), Anglia Ruskin University; Cambridge, UK
09/2018 • Never-Never School – Can new utopias meaningfully answer the old ones?; supervised by Lynda Zein, Mišo Hudák, Jana Kočková, Nika Dubrovsky; organised by Spolka; Košice, SK
09/2018 • The Bratislava BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum; supervised by Maria Hlavajova, Kristína Országhová, Lukáš Likavčan, Zuzana Jakalová, Mira Keratová, Michal Janák, Martin M. Šimečka; organised by BAK, APART Collective, Whitney Stark, Open Studio/Studio IN – Academy of Fine Arts and Design; Bratislava, SK
08/2019 • Youth and the City: Young People for Fair and Green Cities; organised by Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe and Alternative Urbanisation Working Group; Prague, CZ