20.500.12556/RUL-169981 Janja Lap distancing oneself from a servile identity In 1964, having secured a scholarship from the British Council, Slovenian architect and designer Janja Lap (born 1929) went to the Royal College of Art in London (RCA). She spent her first year there researching at the Department of Industrial Glass under the mentorship of Robert Goodden. In the second year of her residence, she joined the Research Unit for Hospitals at what was then known as the School of Industrial Design (Engineering). The paper analyses her research work, focusing on her ability to research and design complex systems while developing new design approaches to identified problems. In the paper, we show that Janja Lap was able to successfully apply the knowledge she had acquired to the Slovenian context, not overlooking the fact that her research work went almost entirely unnoticed in the Slovenian design profession. This despite her being the first and only Slovenian designer to have acquired knowledge in the field of design research during its pioneering period when the foundations of this academic discipline were being established in the UK. education design design thinking identity architecture design history school of design izobraževanje oblikovanje arhitektura identiteta oblikovalsko mišljenje zgodovina oblikovanja raziskave true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-06-30 11:57:13 2025-06-30 11:57:14 2025-11-24 15:36:34 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 137-153 no. 2 Vol. 38 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-01-01 7.05:502.131.1 1741-7279 10.1093/jdh/epaf011 233482243 ID=233482243.pdf ID=233482243.pdf 1 36F759EC01B8AE5E0AFB9827FEB98E87 1fc2108f0c2c1360cd884ad7e78ec9ed0f8da637ca7667883ac5110f1580ad41 5f0108c7-5597-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=211870 https://academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jdh/epaf011/8159167 1 b59184de-5596-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=211869 Akademija za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje 0 0 0