Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

Aleksandra Kunce, PhD, DLitt
Professor in the Institute of Culture Studies, the University of Silesia in Katowice

aleksandra.kunce@us.edu.pl

ORCID 0000-0002-2512-6852

https://silesian.academia.edu/AleksandraKunce

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aleksandra-Kunce-2

https://scholar.google.pl/citations?user=vow94rIAAAAJ&hl=pl

https://radaslonskigojynzyka.org/sklod/

Research interests:

• the local man,
• localness and experience force,
• oicology as a study of/on home,
• Silesia — a space for thinking,
• humanities of place,
• literary and cultural contrastive studies.

Selected publications:

1. Philosophy of friendship with a place as interpretive support for cultural psychology. „Culture & Psychology” 2024, no. 30(1), p. 30-47. https://open.icm.edu.pl/server/api/core/bitstreams/f1be84fc-5918-4d62-b7da-4b094fe0a898/content
2. Why should we cultivate “the difference” in everyday practices of the university? „Higher Education Quarterly” 2022, no. 76, pp. 671– 682. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hequ.12339?domain=author&token=TTSKMPGRMQU5XKJK8PB8
3. Oikologia. Powrót [Oicology. A return] [co-author Tadeusz Sławek]. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego. Katowice 2020, 240 pages. ISBN 978-83-226-3682-4. https://open.icm.edu.pl/items/b39cff40-6b91-41bc-8696-39fe9736bdb9
4. Being at Home in a Place: The Philosophy of Localness. Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA. Warszawa 2019, 208 pages. ISBN 978-83-8017-270-8. https://open.icm.edu.pl/server/api/core/bitstreams/10ae154c-c99d-4f3a-a158-0f55d433ed79/content
5. Miejsca postindustrialne jako przedmiot badań transdyscyplinarnych. Od dizajnu do zakorzenienia [Post-industrial places as a subject of transdisciplinary studies. From design to rootedness], ed. Aleksandra Kunce. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, Gdańsk 2018, 217 pages. ISBN 978-83-66107-19-9. https://open.icm.edu.pl/items/0f2a22c5-9ca4-4924-a875-f7407cd0bf8f
6. Człowiek lokalny. Rozważania umiejscowione [The local man. Localized reflections.]. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego. Katowice 2016, 340 pages. ISBN 978-83-8012-802-6. https://open.icm.edu.pl/items/d58dd4c0-7f5e-4e91-9080-8fc2193b60ab

Fellowships and grants:

NPRH project, “Miejsca postindustrialne jako przedmiot badań transdyscyplinarnych. Od dizajnu do zakorzenienia” [Post-industrial places as a subject of transdisciplinary studies. From design to rootedness], 2bH 15 0099 83, duration: 2016–2019,  research project: Aleksandra Kunce, the research team (17 persons from Poland, Germany, Slovakia and England). The participants from the Institute of Culture Studies: Tadeusz Miczka, Andrzej Gwóźdź, Maria Popczyk, Paweł Paszek, Miłosz Markiewicz (doctoral student). Project website: http://www.postindustrialplace.us.edu.pl

Academic outreach and engagement:

NPRH project, “Miejsca postindustrialne jako przedmiot badań transdyscyplinarnych. Od dizajnu do zakorzenienia” [Post-industrial places as a subject of transdisciplinary studies. From design to rootedness], 2bH 15 0099 83, duration: 2016–2019,  research project: Aleksandra Kunce, the research team (17 persons from Poland, Germany, Slovakia and England). The participants from the Institute of Culture Studies: Tadeusz Miczka, Andrzej Gwóźdź, Maria Popczyk, Paweł Paszek, Miłosz Markiewicz (doctoral student). Project website: http://www.postindustrialplace.us.edu.pl

Grant description: http://www.postindustrialplace.us.edu.pl; publications in paper and online versions: http://www.postindustrialplace.us.edu.pl/wordpress/?page_id=35, accessible in the following repositories: CEON, PBN, RE-BUS; and portals: Academia and Research Gate.

Monographs:

• Miejsca postindustrialne jako przedmiot badań transdyscyplinarnych. Od dizajnu do zakorzenienia, ed. Aleksandra Kunce. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, Gdańsk 2018, pp. 217.
• Post-Industrial Places as a Subject of Transdisciplinary Studies. From Design to Rootedness, ed. Aleksandra Kunce. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, Gdańsk 2019, pp. 217.
• Praktykowanie miejsca postindustrialnego [PostindustriaLab. Practicing a post-industrial place], ed. Aleksandra Kunce. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, Gdańsk 2018, pp. 193.
• Practicing a Post-Industrial Place, ed. Aleksandra Kunce. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, Gdańsk 2019, pp. 185.

Collaboration:

• Collaboration with MediaLab and the Institution Katowice Miasto Ogrodów.
• Collaboration with the Silesian Museum in Katowice; workshops, participation in the jury of the artistic residence competition, presence in the Museum library.
• Collaboration with the researchers from Slovakia and the Czech Republic (Goethe-Institut e.V., Praga, the Metropolitan Institute, Bratislava).
• Collaboration with Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) and dissemination of the research results there.
• Collaboration with the Józef Piłsudski Institute in London.
• Collaboration with the BWA Municipal Gallery in Bydgoszcz, 2019–2020.
• Collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice.
• Publications available in the university libraries abroad: Universitätsbibliothek – Freie Universität and Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).
• Dissemination of the research results on the project website and other portals.
• Open access: CEON, RE-BUŚ, PBN, Research Gate, Academia.