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September 2019 - Bára Vencálková is a young author and poet. She graduated from history and now continues studying philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. She strives to understand things so she could help others find understanding as well. First and foremost, she is not a woman, but a person and like every person she wants to feel alive. She likes to think, read, run, draw, sing, and most of all, she does what she has always been doing. She writes.

March 2016 - Zdeněk Lanc is a designer. He had been working for the Czech Television for as long as 14 years as the head of the Design of New Media department. He ran development of first applications for smart televisions and was amused by the teletext phenomenon. Zdeněk started the tradition of sport specials and successful olympic websites such as those from Athens (2004) to Sochi (2014), even though he does not watch much of sports or television.

December 2020 - Adam is a psychologist at the Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice, where he works with people with personality disorders. He founded the project Therapy among trees (Terapie mezi stromy), which connects nature and mental health. Adam also brings the topic of nature and mental health to the public through his publishing activity.

August 2016 - Martin Rajniš is one of Czech most renown architects and urbanistic visionary. His projects have been inspired and intertwined with nature, natural materials and principles. He believes that going for WEIRD can lead to amazing things.

November 2020 - This time we decided to be radically different in our form and we decided to bring you not one, two or three, but four speakers! The speakers (introduced below) already honoured us with their talks during our previous mornings and we are curious to know how they are doing now during these turbulent times.

Our speakers are:

Zuzana Kuberová - the founder of the project called “Z pokoje do pokoje” and one of the three girls behind it. Their aim is to save old furniture from being thrown away by renovating it themselves and giving it a brand new life. Apart from a selling the re-made pieces, they also opened their workshop to the public and use it as a re-use center. Anyone can come, borrow tools and work on their personal projects.

Bára Vencálková – a young author and poet. She graduated from history and now continues studying philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. She strives to understand things so she could help others find understanding as well. First and foremost, she is not a woman, but a person and like every person she wants to feel alive. She likes to think, read, run, draw, sing, and most of all, she does what she has always been doing. She writes.

Sebastian James - a Czech psychologist and licensed psychotherapist. In both life and work, he believes in openness, the ability to sense one’s own body, being able to play and being ready to help others. These are also the principles, that his workshops are based on, focusing on long-lasting personal relationships and sustainable happiness in life. His theory of “Radical Honesty” is an answer to a common reality of pretending, which also offers healthier and more entertaining way of life, as Sebastian says. He leads adventure workshops, individual and couple psychotherapy or communication and leadership trainings in the corporate environment.

Richard Vrdlovec - first started doing yoga back when he was 10 years old. Then he returned to it with a higher intensity around 2004, while he was working for prestigious consultancy companies and feeling generally stressed. Since that time, he has studied various yoga theories and practices and got inspired by teaching yoga himself. After 2011 he persisted with Buddha’s meditation tradition and in 2016 opened his own studio Yoga Karlín. Together with other experienced instructors, Richard teaches a variety of yoga styles and meditation basics there.

August 2019 - This month’s lecture will focus on the examination of architecture and urban planning in terms of gender. This allows for uncovering problems of inequality and negligence in urban development. In her lecture, Milota will present the practical examples of gender-sensitive design and planning, the mobility of care in cities abroad, and the possible solutions to the improvement in the quality of Czech and Slovakian urban planning.