September 26
15:00-16:30
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„Corneliu Miklosi“ Public Transport MuseumGuided Tours
„Enough is Enough” exhibition tour – guided by the curators
From the very beginning, the three curators assumed the theme of responsibility towards the built environment, as an attitude in the projects’ selection process and in the way the spacial concept was developed. The purpose of this guided tour is to place the selected projects in the general context of the exhibition, through the use of display panels, samples, objects or installations. At the same time, it offers the opportunity to understand how the interdisciplinary process, that laid at the core of how the space was organized, is being integrated in the curatorial concept.
Anca Cioarec has studied architecture at the University of Architecture and Urbanism ’Ion Mincu’ in Bucharest (UAUIM), Università degli Studi di Genova and Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. She is interested in the relationship between contemporary art and architecture and she holds a phD degree regarding the contemporary spaces for art. Anca is currently a teaching assistant at the University of Architecture and Urbanism ’Ion Mincu’ in Bucharest.
In 2011, Anca Cioarec co-founded Stardust Architects together with Brîndușa Tudor – searching for poetic experiences in the process of design, aiming to slow down the automatic use of everyday objects and spaces by creating moments of silence, presence or wonder. Their interests focuses on questioning the current forms of architectural education, practice and dissemination, formulating and testing alternative ways through students workshops, competitions and self generated initiatives. They have been nominated and awarded in the national scene of architecture annuals and biennials and they have been curating students workshops like BAUBAU – Bauhaus 100 București along with the Goethe Institut and Zeppelin investigating the built modernist heritage with an interdisciplinary team of tutors and students.
Stardust Architects
Brîndușa Tudor has studied architecture at the University of Architecture and Urbanism ’Ion Mincu’ in Bucharest. She is interested in architecture without architects and she is currently a doctoral student, researching the urban neovernacular in Bucharest after 1989. Until recently, she was a teaching assistant at the University of Architecture and Urbanism ’Ion Mincu’ in Bucharest.
After a series of collaborations, such as the involvement in the Calup project – a bottom-up initiative that aimed to reactivate vacant built heritage through temporary scenarios – Brîndușa Tudor and Anca Cioarec co-founded Stardust Architects in 2011. Their interests focuses on questioning the current forms of architectural education, practice and dissemination, reformulating and testing alternative ways through students workshops, competitions and self generated initiatives. They have designed the Romanian Pavilion for the UIA Congress 2017, in Seoul, South Korea with the project “Topophilia”, an immersive experience in the Delta Văcărești Natural Park in the attempt to talk about the soul of Bucharest through panoramic projections, sounds and objects and questioning the absence of human intervention and renaturalization as a form of place healing. They have also won the competition for designing the “Mesteshukar ButiQ” – a social enterprise working on revaluing traditional Roma craftsmanship and building a bridge between local craftsmen and contemporary designers.
Stardust Architects
Ilka Ruby is a Berlin-based publisher and curator on issues surrounding architecture and urbanism. She studied architecture at RWTH Aachen and TU Vienna. In 2001 together with Andreas Ruby she founded textbild – an office for architectural communication, and in 2008 Ruby Press – a publishing house with a focus on architecture, art, and other cultural practices engaged in the production of space.
Through Ruby Press she produced award winning books such as “Reasons for Walling a House” (2012), “Building Brazil!” (2011), “City of God—Cidade de Deus!” (2013), “Architecture Reading Aid Ahmedabad” (2015), “Housing Cairo” (2016), ‘Skanderbeg Square, Tirana” (2018), and ‘Atlas of the Copenhagens” (2018). Ilka also realised a number of curatorial projects, such as the video installation Endless Bauhaus – part of the “Modell Bauhaus” exhibition at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin (2009), the exhibition “Druot, Lacaton & Vassal – Tour Bois le Prêtre” for the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt (2012), “Treasures in Disguise” – the Pavilion representing Montenegro at the 14th Architecture Biennale in Venice (2014), “Never Demolish” – for the Copenhagen Architecture Festival (2017), and the traveling exhibition “Together! The New Architecture of the Collective”. Additionally, she has organized several international symposia on architecture and design, including the “Min to Max” symposium on affordable housing (2011). Ilka Ruby has taught at Cornell University, Berlin University of the Arts, and the Peter Behrens School of Architecture in Düsseldorf.
Ruby Press