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July 9, 2024
Urban Kavka, InnoRenew CoE assistant researcher in sustainable building with renewable materials research group
I lived in Domžale, and currently I am living there again after few years at the coast.
For my bachelor’s degree I studied civil engineering, which I’ve chosen by eliminating other options and mostly because I am a creative person with solid mathematical skills. Through my studies I realised I wanted to get an insight on how to create natural built environment, so I did my master in sustainable built environment.
As a researcher my job is to continuously learn by try-fail-try-succeed process. Even though there is plenty of retries during the work, so as a researcher you must be comfortable with coming across different obstacles. However, that is a process I enjoy most – discovering new ways to overcome the struggles.
There have not been typical working days during my time at InnoRenew, yet, though all of them consist of emails, planning of work, learning, and then of course executing the tasks, which are usually measurement of different kinds.
Solving problems and hopefully contributing to a better built environment in the future.
Cables. There’s plenty of them in every measurement and just making sure I don’t get entangled in them is a challenge.
Leonardo da Vinci, solely for his broad understanding of life. Since I have always been more a generalist than specialist, I admire broader knowledge. Not only was he one of the last geniuses who knew everything that has been discovered until his lifetime, but how he combined science with art is praiseworthy.
In general all art forms have a special place in my life, nonetheless music is one of a kind. There is no art, including everyday life as a specific art form, that cannot be improved with well chosen music piece. Music on other hand does not need a contributing piece of another art form. What specific music piece I listen is always dependent on time, location, and situation.
Last album was a new piece from a friend of mine (X.U.L – tengsl), last movie was Django Unchained, and last reading was also from a friend, poetry book Trgetanje by Pino Pograjc, which got an award from best debut by Slovene Writers’ Association.
Oh there’s many, spring of river Rižana, Socerb, but if we talk strictly about coast, nothing beats the cliffs and Bele Skale.
Finding art and science in everyday life.
No matter how much you rush, you cannot squeeze more minutes in one hour.
Everywhere we look there is a form of wood surrounding us and I believe that exactly this is charm of wood, its ever-present companionship.