STUDIO
TRENDSPOT is the studio founded by Agnieszka Polkowska based in Europe that specialises in future research and speculative design with a heart-centered approach. We provide brands, strategists and institutions with knowledge on the market and new ways of thinking, feeling and empowering them toward the creation of their future.
In our work, we focus on businesses goals while simultaneously honoring interconnectedness between business, human, community and environment that not only can ensure the survival of the organization, but can help it grow in the long term and serve next generations. Our tools used in the field od trend forecasting and speculative design help us in this.
The TRENDSPOT team consists of core research team and satellites - specialists in their fields: from sociology to future thinking.
A speculative designer, future strategist and educator with a Ph.D. in design. She is a founder of a TRENDSPOT future research & speculative design studio as well as co-founder of Touching Points studio which was established to transfer ideas between different sectors and implementing them into strategic actions. She actively works in design and futures education as Assistant professor at Stettin Art Academy running speculative & subversive design studio as well as carries out interdisciplinary courses in trends and foresight at Total Design Management postgraduate studies at Warsaw University of Technology, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Collegium Da Vinci and Łazarski University. Agnieszka is an expert and consultant of Dutch think-tank MARE Amsterdam and cooperates with such institutions as the Institute of Industrial Design, Pomeranian Science and Technology Park Gdynia, Łódź Design Festival. She had the pleasure to contribute and worked on research and implementation projects for such clients as Samsung, MTV, Play, Vogue Poland, Ceramika Paradyż, Cosentino, Abriga, Desa Unicum, Biżuteria YES, eobuwie.pl, Decathlon, Local Heroes as well as many others. She was also a member of the expert board of the must have competition at the Łódź Design Festival.
Selected clients
MARE Amsterdam
Play
Industrial Design Institute
Gdynia Design Centre
Pomeranian Science and Technology Park
Łódź Design Festival
Vogue Poland
YES
Samsung
Decathlon
Ceramika Paradyż
Desa Unicum
Cosentino
eobuwie.pl
Benericetti
Local Heroes
Top Secret
MLE Collection
POP UP GRUPA
L37
Fiore
BOHOBOCO
TOVA
Abriga
Selected Activities/ Press
2017
Dobry Wzór Design Competition
Industrial Design Institute
Member of Interdisciplinary Board
Element UX Talks
Keynote Speaker
2019
Łódź Design Festival
Keynote Speaker
Łódź Design Festival Must Have competition
Member of a Board
Vogue Poland
Keynote Speaker
2019 - 2021
Must have competition Łódź Design Festival
Member of Expert Board
2020
Fashion Revolution Week
Guest of a panel discussion
La Futura x Social Disruption
Guest of a panel discussion
VOGUE Poland
I-D POLAND
POLITYKA
WYSOKIE OBCASY
GAZETA WYBORCZA
F5
STUDIO
TRENDSPOT is the studio founded by Agnieszka Polkowska based in Europe that specialises in future research and speculative design with a heart-centered approach. We provide brands, strategists and institutions with knowledge on the market and new ways of thinking, feeling and empowering them toward the creation of their future.
In our work, we focus on businesses goals while simultaneously honoring interconnectedness between business, human, community and environment that not only can ensure the survival of the organization, but can help it grow in the long term and serve next generations. Our tools used in the field od trend forecasting and speculative design help us in this.
The TRENDSPOT team consists of core research team and satellites - specialists in their fields: from sociology to future thinking.
A speculative designer, future strategist and educator with a Ph.D. in design. She is a founder of a TRENDSPOT future research & speculative design studio as well as co-founder of Touching Points studio which was established to transfer ideas between different sectors and implementing them into strategic actions. She actively works in design and futures education as Assistant professor at Stettin Art Academy running speculative & subversive design studio as well as carries out interdisciplinary courses in trends and foresight at Total Design Management postgraduate studies at Warsaw University of Technology, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Collegium Da Vinci and Łazarski University. Agnieszka is an expert and consultant of Dutch think-tank MARE Amsterdam and cooperates with such institutions as the Institute of Industrial Design, Pomeranian Science and Technology Park Gdynia, Łódź Design Festival. She had the pleasure to contribute and worked on research and implementation projects for such clients as Samsung, MTV, Play, Vogue Poland, Ceramika Paradyż, Cosentino, Abriga, Desa Unicum, Biżuteria YES, eobuwie.pl, Decathlon, Local Heroes as well as many others. She was also a member of the expert board of the must have competition at the Łódź Design Festival.
Selected clients
MARE Amsterdam
Play
Industrial Design Institute
Gdynia Design Centre
Pomeranian Science and Technology Park
Łódź Design Festival
Vogue Poland
YES
Samsung
Decathlon
Ceramika Paradyż
Desa Unicum
Cosentino
eobuwie.pl
Benericetti
Local Heroes
Top Secret
MLE Collection
POP UP GRUPA
L37
Fiore
BOHOBOCO
TOVA
Abriga
Selected Activities/ Press
2017
Dobry Wzór Design Competition
Industrial Design Institute
Member of Interdisciplinary Board
Element UX Talks
Keynote Speaker
2019
Łódź Design Festival
Keynote Speaker
Łódź Design Festival Must Have competition
Member of a Board
Vogue Poland
Keynote Speaker
2019 - 2021
Must have competition Łódź Design Festival
Member of Expert Board
2020
Fashion Revolution Week
Guest of a panel discussion
La Futura x Social Disruption
Guest of a panel discussion
VOGUE Poland
I-D POLAND
POLITYKA
WYSOKIE OBCASY
GAZETA WYBORCZA
F5
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