Živa Slavec, architect, ceramic designer, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Design in Ljubljana. Born in Kranj in 1980, graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana. She gained her education in studio and artistic ceramics from renowned craftsmen and artists at home and abroad.
Her work experience includes internships and collaborations in various architectural offices, practice and research in studio and artistic ceramics, participation in educational processes and teaching at the Faculty of Design since 2006, collaboration with primary schools on enrichment content (ceramics), involvement in local associations and environmental activism for which she received a certificate of recognition from the Municipality of Kranj.

The spectrum of teaching topics includes spatial design, architectural drawing, geometry, studio ceramics.

For the last 10 years, she has been dedicated to researching local materials and wood firing ceramics. She built the first high-temperature wood kiln in Slovenia and participated in exhibitions at home and abroad.

She advocates for a sustainable multidisciplinary creative process, where the designer is involved in a multi-layered exploration (geology, (al)chemistry, archaeology, mythology…) of space and its potentials.

In design practice, this also means acquiring material in situ, testing, designing, and producing the product. With a holistic process, the designer fully dedicates themselves to the spirit of the space, where the spiritual and material potential connect.