Anna Wrzesień
Personal Profile
I hold a PhD in Fine Arts in the field of design and graduated from the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. I currently lead the Social Design Studio at the Institute of Design at my alma mater, where my work focuses on inclusive design and empirical research. Alongside my academic practice, I am an active product designer and visual artist, committed to advancing accessibility in art and design
Professional Experience
Exhibitions
Solo
2007 – Solo exhibition of lithographic works "Syncretism of Arts", Botanical Garden of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Powsin, Poland
2008 – Exhibition of lithographic works "Landscape in Miniature", Kielce Culture Center, Kielce, Poland
2024 – "The Road, interpenetration, miniature", Academic Design Center, Łódź, Poland
2025 – "Terra Incognita", Małopolski Science Center, Cogiteon, Kraków, Poland
2025 – "I am, who’s, which…", Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, Lyon, France
Group
2014 – "Between us Universities", Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland
2014 – "Own Things", University Gallery, Zielona Góra, Poland
2015 – "Design/architecture/art", Aula Gallery, University of the Arts Poznań, Poznań, Poland
2015 – "Pure and Design", Imaginarium Gallery, Łódź, Poland
2016 – "Area of Activities", Gallery R+, Academy of Art, Szczecin, Poland
2021 – "Fine Arts / Design Arts – Exhibition of Educators of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź", Lyon, France
2023 – "Perceptions", Academic Design Center, Łódź, Poland
2024 – "Perceptions 2.0", Academic Design Center, Łódź, Poland
2024 – "9/9", Academic Design Center, Łódź, Poland
2025 – "Light. Relation. Structure", Sztuka na Miejscu Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
2025 – "Perceptions 2025", Academic Design Center, Łódź, Poland
2025 –"Syntopia: The Art of freedom", AUCY American University of Cyprus, Larnaca, Cyprus
2025 – "AltereD Architecture and Design AD2 / MEDEA", AUCY American University of Cyprus, Larnaca, Cyprus
2025 – "Agenda 2030 – educators' exhibition", Universidade Lusófona, Porto, Portugal
2025 – "Mosaic. Koczalski syncretically", Lyon, France
2026 – “Design Model. Educators”, Aula Gallery, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland
Research projects
2012-2015 – "Research in the field of communication for the Deante company. The scope of the study includes information materials, a new design line of product displays, arrangements of new product design lines", execution of a research project funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) as part of a core funding grant for maintaining research potential. Individual work
2015-2016 – "The sign in space, the space of the sign – a visual identification system for a selected public entity", execution of a research project funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) as part of a core funding grant for maintaining research potential. Team work, project manager
2017-2021 – Within the framework of the scientific research program for state defense and security entitled "Future Technologies for Defense – Young Scientists Competition" titled "Innovative, multi-functional composite systems intended for structural elements of autonomous unmanned platforms", execution of a research project funded by the National Center for Research and Development (NCBiR). Content manager of the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) team in Łódź
2019-2022 – Within the National Center for Research and Development (NCBiR), project "Individualization of the personal protection system", team work, content specialist, responsible for developing the user manual for bulletproof vests
2020 – "Sign, word, direction — from elementary to advanced visual information systems in medical units", execution of a research project funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) as part of a core funding grant for maintaining research potential. Individual work
2021 – "Wayfinding design – new directions in visual information systems for public spaces", execution of a research project funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) as part of a core funding grant for maintaining research potential. Team project, project manager
2023 – "Blind people hear art – Cognitive translation / synergy of visual and musical works with the transfer (inclusion) of emotions evoked by the artwork", execution of a research project funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) as part of a core funding grant for maintaining research potential. Individual work
2025 – "Shapes of culture and nature", execution of a research project funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) as part of a core funding grant for maintaining research potential. Team project, project manager
Articles
Participation in conferences
2007 – Anna Wrzesień, Przemysław Tomaszewski, Selected problems regarding the reception of information by disabled people, [in:] Ergonomics for the Disabled. In Industrial Form Design, ed. Lewandowski J., Lecewicz-Bartoszewska J., Polak-Sopińska A., rev. prof. Jadwiga Filipiak, prof. Adam Gedliczka, prof. Wojciech Wybieralski, Lodz University of Technology Press (Department of Production Management), ISBN 978-83-61215-03-5, Łódź 2007
2007 – Anna Wrzesień, Przemysław Tomaszewski, The art of interior design in theory, [in:] "Studies and Materials of the Center for Nature and Forestry Education; How to arrange educational rooms and nature-forestry exhibitions", Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW) Press
2011 – Anna Wrzesień, On system consistency in visual communication, [in:] WWIAW – Didactic Issues, ed. Wyszogrodzka-Trzcinka M., Miarka A., rev. prof. Wojciech Wybieralski, dr hab. Jan Kukuła, Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, ISBN 978-83-63141-04-2, Łódź 2011
2016 – Anna Wrzesień, Design of media promoting design in Łódź. Promotion, popularization – the idea of design, Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, ISBN 978-83-65403-61-2, Łódź 2016
2018 – Anna Wrzesień, Design Strategy for a series of unmanned platforms. Design Thinking methodology applied in research, [in:] Innovative, multi-functional composite systems intended for structural elements of autonomous unmanned platforms, Dorota Zielińska, Edyta Chmal-Fudali
2018 – Kośla K., Zielińska D., Chmal-Fudali E., Wrzesień A., Wańczyk A., Zieliński D., Śmiglak M., Innovative, multi-functional composite systems for the construction of autonomous unmanned platforms – Introduction to project idea, [in:] Advanced technologies and materials in state security, Vol I, ed. Struszczyk M., rev. dr Majchrzycka K., prof. Wiśniewski A., MORATEX Institute of Security Technologies, ISBN 978-83-951668-0-8, Łódź 2018
2022 – Anna Wrzesień, BETWEEN SOZOLOGY, DESIGN AND PRACTICE, a brief history of the scientific conference within the Eco Make event at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, "Powidoki. Ecodesign" 6/2022, Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Łódź 2022
2019 – Anna Wrzesień (ed.), Responsible Design Space, Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, ISBN 978-83-65403-87-2, Łódź 2019
2024 – Anna Wrzesień, Abstracts from the 1st International Conference on Design for Social Impact, [abstract in post-conference publication], PUBLISHER Universidade Lusófona, ISBN 978-989-757-284-5
2026 – Anna Wrzesień, Abstracts from the 2nd International Conference on Design for Social Impact, [abstract in post-conference publication], PUBLISHER Universidade Lusófona
2026 - Cadete C., Wrzesień A., “A Culture of Responsibility: International Poster Exhibitions in Higher Education with Insights from Agenda 2030”, 10th edition of EIMAD - International Conference on Research in Music, Arts and Design (ESART-IPCB)
2007 – International Scientific and Technical Conference Ergonomics for the Disabled – "Selected problems regarding the reception of information by visually impaired people", Łódź
2007 – "The art of interior design in theory – How to arrange educational and nature-forestry exhibition rooms", Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Rogów
– Participation in the international scientific conference "Renewable Design Space" organized by the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź during the Eco Made Festival 2017 – speech during the opening of the conference "Eco philosophy in design and art", Łódź 2017
– Participation in the 2nd international scientific conference "Natural Environment and Development". Title of the paper: "Eco philosophy in the design of visual communication. Visible / invisible signs", Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź, Łódź 2017
– Participation in the conference "Renewable Design Space 2.0" as part of the Eco Make event. Expert in the panel "Responsible design, meaning what?", Łódź 2018
– Speech at the International Congress "Woman in the Orbit of Art" within the Fine Arts panel – "Women of design": dr hab. Olga Podfilipska-Krysińska, university professor, dr Dorota Salska, dr Anna Wrzesień, Municipal Center of Culture, Sports and Recreation, Dzierżązna, 2023
– Speech and publication of own research regarding inclusive design in art at the International Conference "1st International Conference on Design for Social Impact", topic: "Blind people hear art – Cognitive translation / synergy of works of art and music with the transfer of emotions evoked by the artwork", Lusófona University, Porto, Portugal 2024
– Speech during the conference "Design in the Process", topic: "Terra Incognita" – on interdisciplinarity in art and design, Academic Design Center, Łódź 2024
– Speech during the Eco Make International Scientific Conference "Transdisciplinarity", topic of the speech: "Design of the unknown – on authenticity, nature and randomness. Presentation of the project – Terra Incognita", Łódź 2024
– Speech as part of the Unifestival, topic: "Multisensory nature as a tool of universal design", Cogiteon, Kraków 2025
– Speech and publication of own research regarding inclusive design in art at the International Conference "2nd International Conference on Design for Social Impact", topic: "Multisensoryity as a tool of universal design in the context of social well-being", Lusófona University, Porto, Portugal 2026