After graduating from the Academy of Art, I collaborated with institutions like the European Solidarity Centre, creating, together with super talented illustrator Ania Oparkowska, stop-motion workshops as part of cultural, social, and educational programs. Over the years, I’ve worked with children, teens, adults, refugees, and even prisoners — always starting with a story. Whether we were honoring Polish women scientists like Maria SkĆodowska-Curie and Simona Kossak, retracing the journey of Ernest Shackleton’s “Endurance” expedition, or celebrating the strength of women who worked in GdaĆsk shipyards, each project became a way to reflect, connect, and create something lasting.
Creative Workshops
Since 2009, I’ve been designing and leading creative workshops that use art and animation as tools for storytelling, connection, and growth. It all began with art camps for children and young adults, where we explored everything from life drawing and acrylic painting to happenings and stop-motion animation. I quickly fell in love with the energy of those spaces — the spark that happens when you show someone, especially a young mind, how their imagination can take form and be seen.
Participants learned how to shape narratives into scripts and storyboards, how to visualize key moments, and how to animate their ideas with simple tools — often just a smartphone and a free app. Many walked away not only with new skills but with a new creative hobby or form of self-expression. These workshops were always about more than technique — they were about giving people the tools to tell their stories, their way.
Design Thinking
In addition to my creative practice, I’ve had the opportunity to lead Design Thinking workshops for both internal teams and clients — most notably during my time at IKEA and Lufthansa Systems.
These sessions were designed to help participants step away from rigid processes and explore user-centered, collaborative problem solving in a more open, visual, and empathetic way. Whether we were co-creating solutions for internal workflows or shaping new customer-facing experiences, I facilitated hands-on exercises that encouraged experimentation, listening, and divergent thinking — always focused on real people and real needs.
My workshops often blend creative techniques with practical tools: sketching, journey mapping, rapid prototyping, and storytelling are all part of the process. I love creating safe spaces where everyone — no matter their role or background — feels empowered to contribute and think like a designer.
Now, I continue to apply this mindset in my own design work, and I’m always open to bringing these methods into new teams, classrooms, or collaborative spaces.
Creative Lockdown: Stop Motion for Everyone
During the pandemic lockdown, I collaborated with Dom Filmowy in Gdynia to create, together with amazing editor Marcin Wolski, a series of online tutorials that introduced children and young adults to the magic of stop motion animation. The aim was simple but powerful: to inspire creativity at home, using whatever materials were available — paper scraps, clay, even pasta. These videos offered a playful, hands-on escape during a difficult time, showing that with a bit of imagination (and a smartphone), anyone could start animating their own stories. It was a joyful way to connect, create, and share — even from a distance.