Tender Bodies
A multidisciplinary architectural designer and founder of The Art Lab studio, working at the intersection of spatial design, body architecture, and human-centered innovation. My practice explores how space can respond to emotional, psychological, and social needs—rethinking architecture not as a static frame but as an intimate landscape shaped by human presence and diversity. I hold a Master’s degree from Studio Hani Rashid at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, with previous studies at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and Erasmus exchanges at ETSAM Madrid and EKA Tallinn. This transdisciplinary education shaped my approach to design as research: speculative, rigorous, sensitive to human experience. Throughout my career, I have worked internationally across architecture, product design, and creative direction, including projects in China, Ghana, Austria, and Serbia. I bring extensive experience in design research, digital tools, prototyping, and material exploration. My work has been exhibited and published internationally, and I have received awards for innovation in architecture and design. Recently, I have been developing Tender Bodies as an evolution of my master thesis, combining my passion for exploring the relationship between body and space with a critique of how architecture often fails to embrace human emotional complexity. The Art Lab, my studio, serves as a platform for experimental spatial practices, exploring the future of architecture as a discipline of care, tenderness, and connection. Through this, I am committed to developing forward-thinking, human-centered projects that cross disciplinary boundaries and respond to diverse industries, from architecture and design to fashion and technology.
Tender Bodies began from an urgent question: how can space care for humans again? In a world where architecture increasingly serves optimization while human connection dissolves into digital interfaces, Tender Bodies explores how space can respond to emotional complexity, intimacy, and diversity. This project emerged from a personal reflection on how modern environments fail to accommodate the range of human experiences—mental health, loneliness, the need for touch, security, and comfort. It was developed as a speculative design experiment where space is imagined as an extension of the body itself: tactile, fluid, and adaptive. Tender Bodies envisions sculptural environments shaped by and for human presence. It proposes that well-being is subjective, messy, and variable—that different people seek different kinds of comfort at different times. At its core, it offers forms that wrap around individuals, providing shelter, embrace, or withdrawal. When multiple individuals inhabit these forms, they collectively create an intimate landscape—a living architecture shaped not by fixed design but by human emotion itself. The most successful aspect of this project is its blending of conceptual rigor and sensory experience. It invites us to rethink space as something deeply relational and caring—not just functional or aesthetic. Tender Bodies has potential to evolve in many directions: as an immersive installation, a participatory workshop, an embodied performance, or a speculative research platform. It is adaptable and versatile, but its core mission remains constant: to propose a future where architecture reclaims its essential task—to care for the human condition in all its tender complexity.