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Overview

  • 6 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Czech, English; learning Korean
  • 31, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • playing role of homo erectus, UX designer @DeloitteDigital
  • Spatial design and Architectural Design @Hanyang Universi...
  • From Olomouc, Olomouc Region, Czechia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Take a big journey to the China, learn how to eat their food, dance a lot and come back safe!
Bit adventurous, love meeting new people and their culture, love trying new food, love discovering new places and absorbing the atmosphere.
I am really into art, design and architecture, from a static to dynamic form. I studied spatial design in Czech Republic and architecture design in Seoul, Korea.
I work as a designer (UX for Deloitte Digital, creative work for couple other clients).
My friends would probably say that I like drawing, and people who believe in something..
Do not forget, if you eat enough carrots, you will see behind the corners!

But I am not sure at all, you better ask my best friend.

PHILOSOPHY

Probably be succesfull and enjoy my life and do the best for the people around me. It all comes back one day! Make as much as possible good deeds to leave this world better make something for other people. And recently I realized, that knowing cultural and historical context is so important, that is even hard to believe.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because it has totally changed the way I live/do/act, while I am exploring new places.

I do think the best way to meet new interesting people is throughout something that is not based on some materialistic exchange (although big shoutout to airbnb that I am using, if travelling for business). The best people I have met in my life, were kinda by accident, and I was always beyond my comfy zone.

Interests

Art, besides the fact a graduated high school of IT - got a job at IBM, then started studying spatial design and arch design.
Different kinds of music, from Bjork to hardcore straight edge bands.
Wanna talk movies? Kubrick..from the other movies, Elephant man, Diving bell and butterfly. From new wave, maybe About Time.

I don't watch hollywood-style-action movies a lot. I am the clockwork orange generation.

  • arts
  • culture
  • architecture
  • design
  • dancing
  • environment
  • dining
  • movies
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • music
  • cycling
  • scuba diving
  • business
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Genius Loci; Vers une architecture: Le Corbusier
Movies: Les amours imaginaires, The diving bell and the butterfly, Schindler's list, Requiem for a dream, Shawshank redemption, Paha Maa - that is a rare list of my fav. movies, because it is impossible to list all of them. From books, Kundera, L.Prince and everything with a touch of architecture.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Since one is not enough and you know it.
1)Trip throughout Scottish highlands on a bike
2)Standing in the middle of lava field in Iceland, totally alone, amazed and scared as hell at the same time.
3)Staying in the buddhist temple in the Korean mountains.
4)Surviving 10 days in Edinburgh with few slices of bread and without a single pound. Best way to get rid of 10 kilos. haha.

Teach, Learn, Share

I will!

What I Can Share with Hosts

My perspective on architecture and how we should act/live in the environment.
Travel tips. We can talk about art and things your grandma taught you (cause those are the best!)
I think I have a great sense to talk about things, that are sometimes being overseen. For example landscape, light, or even things like trees in your street. Those things are shaping us in the incredible way.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Iceland, South Korea

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