Miljana Nikolić

Miljana Nikolić, M.Arch

2008 - University of Belgrade / Faculty of Forestry / Wood Processing Department / Furniture and Wood Products - PhD programme
2002 - 2008 University of Belgrade / Faculty of Architecture / Interior Design and Lighting in Architecture (Serbian Republic Foundation for Development of Scientific Youth scholar)
2011 - University of Belgrade / Faculty of Forestry / Wood Processing Department / Wood Products Design - Assistant lecturer
2010 Beginning of a serial production of a Play me chair by Simpo furniture company
2010 Aalto University / Helsinki Summer School - Tower Sauna ( group project )
2010 Mikser festival / Education Zone - Assistant coordinator
2009 Autorski atelje Spajić, architectural office, Belgrade - internship
2007 The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) - Atelier d’Architecture d’Intérieur et de Décoration LAJNEF, Tunisia - internship
2009 Mikser Design Expo / Education Zone - Assistant coordinator

After graduation in 2008, Miljana was working as a freelance architect / designer on different interior and furniture design assignments. She was involved in various projects of a different scale with focus on use of wood, in such a way exploring its properties through practical tasks. She is currently employed as an assistant in a field of Wood Products Design, on Furniture and Interior Design courses, while at the same time working on her PhD thesis on properties of wood façade cladding. She lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia.

Her interests stand half way between architecture and furniture design. She believes that products can emerge from a specific practical need (the same way buildings do) but that, at the end of a process, an object must be able to provoke an emotional reaction in people in order to have success.

2010 Salone Internazionale del Mobile / Salone Satellite / Young Serbian Designers / Design Report Award - group nomination
2010 Young Balkan Designers competition by Mikser - group I prize
2009 Agency for wood, Belgrade / Furniture Design Competition - I prize
2009 Yound Serbian Designers competition by Mikser - group I prize
2009 Buck lightning company, Belgrade / Imm Cologne fair stand - competition

2011 Salone Internazionale del Mobile / Salone Satellite / Young Balkan Designers - Catapult swing chair
2011 O3one gallery, Belgrade / Young Balkan Designers - Catapult swing chair
2010 Simpo furniture company Home exibition – Play me chair
2010 Sofia Design Week / Young Serbian Designers – Play me chair
2010 Mikser festival, Belgrade / Young Serbian Designers – Play me chair
2010 Salone Internazionale del Mobile / Salone Satellite / Young Serbian Designers – Play me chair
2010 O3one gallery, Belgrade / Young Serbian Designers – Play me chair
2009 Student Cultural Center, Belgrade / Wood Processing Department exibition
2009 47th International fair of Furniture, Equipment and Interior Decoration / Faculty of Forestry stand – Play me chair