Peter Paliatka (born 1952 in Handlová, Slovakia) is Slovak designer, sculptor and university

pedagogue Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as ...

. His works include designs in serial production (transportation, industrial and product design),

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and sculptural realizations in

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Biography

After high school where he studied Spišská Nová Ves (Furniture construction and interior) he studied "Tvarovanie výrobkov spotrebného priemyslu" at Vaclav Kautman's studio at AFAD Bratislava from 1972 - 78. After graduation and until 1993, he worked as a pedagogue at AFAD in Bratislava, first as an assistant of Vaclav Kautman, later Tibor Schotter (1980–84). In 1983 he spent one year on a study exchange in

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. Since 1990, he was leading AFAD's Institute of Design. 1993 was the year of his successful habituation as a university lecturer. In 1995, Peter Paliatka co-founded SSUŠ - Private Secondary Art School in Bratislava, where he was active as a director and pedagogue until 1998. Since 2000, he has been leading his studio at the Institute of Industrial Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) ( sk, Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave) is the biggest and oldest university of technology in Slovakia. In the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities it was ranked in the fir ...

, as the head of the department.

Works and awards

* Hydraulic rotary loader Detvan Hon 200, produced b
PPS Group, a. s., Detva
co-authors Peter Chlpek, Peter Varga
Honor Prize, Slovak National Design Prize 2009
* FUTURA, set of armatures for Slovak manufacturer of armatures in Myjava

* children playgrounds for Vrbové and Bratislava * mid-tonnage lorry, BAZ Bratislava, 1985

Projects

* Project Eating with Hi-mac
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* Project OMS Lightnin
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Exhibitions

* Umenie v meste, Galéria J. Klollára, Banská Štiavnica, Jún 2010 * Metal Inspirations 2007, STM, Kosice, August 200

References

External links

* Interview with P.Paliatka in INTERIER EXTERIER, 07/201
interiermagazin.sk
* Article by Peter Paliatka: "Symbióza ako východisko
stavebni-technika.cz
* website of th
Institute of Design
at Faculty of Architecture in Bratislava * website o
Academy of Fine Arts and Design
in Bratislava * website o
Private Secondary Art School
in Bratislava {{DEFAULTSORT:Paliatka, Peter Slovak sculptors Slovak educators Living people 1952 births Academic staff of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava People from Handlová