curriculum vitae
MARIA MANDEA
b. 1991, Bucharest, Romania
EDUCATION:
2018-present Doctoral student in Visual Arts
National University of Arts, Bucharest
Subject: Designing Playfulness
2019-2020 Erasmus at Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria
research on the topic of cooperative aesthetics
2012-2017 BA+MA Product Design
Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest
Diploma: Construction set for scenography in edu-theatre
2010-2012 BA Architecture - interrupted in second year
Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest
2006-2010 High-school - focus on computer programming
Alexanru Ioan Cuza high-school, Bucharest
OTHER EDU:
2015-2016 Aesthetics in Photography
Fotopoetica school of Photography, Francisc Mraz
9 months course, Bucharest
2013-2015 Training Department for Teaching Personnel
National University of Theatre and Film "I.L. Caragiale”, Bucharest
2 years course, Bucharest
FOUNDED:
2017 studio super:serios
co-founder together with urbanist T. Ungureanu
design studio
2012 Micul HAOS
founder, toy designer and photographer
WORKS:
2020 The System in the Room
game installation
2020 Far to Close / Aproape Departe
immersive installation game
2020 Divided game
immersive installation game
Deep Space 8K, Ars Electronica Center, Linz
2019 Matera Narrative Puzzle
urban game
2019 Victoria Narrative Puzzle
augmented reality game installation about the post-industrial city of Victoria
Victoria, România
2018-2019 Visual design for the MA in Theatre Pedagogy projects
graphic design, poster design
various projects developed by the Master in Theatre Pedagogy,
National University of Theatre and Film "I.L. Caragiale”
2018-2019 Visual design for One World Romania at School
One World Romania at School NGO
visual concept development, creating graphic games for and with high-school students
2015-2018 Anina Mine of Ideas
participant in the workshop
graphic designer and photographer
multidisciplinary project that studies Anina, an ex-mining
town from Banat, south-west Romania, Alba Verde Association
2018 Visual design workshop for Architecture Students
workshop coordinator
Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest
3 weeks workshop teaching students how to visually communicate
2017 mic maraton
co-creator, participant, graphic designer
4-days design marathon for NGOs in the Prahova district
2017 Eviction Notice
360° VR stop-motion animation short film, director, puppet creator
realised at CINETic Bucharest
2017 Fotopoetica generation 9
collective photography exhibition at Cărturești Verona, București
2016 nunu collaborative game
participant, graphic designer
part of the workshop Digital Stories at the French Institute in Bucharest
2015 'ca să' collective exhibition
artist and co-organiser
self-organised together with other students from the design department, Bucharest
2014 Memories from the School Age
stage designer
theatre performance, director: Radu Apostol, playwright: Mihaela Michailov
pproduction: ADO Asociation in collaboration with the Comedy Theatre, Bucharest
2014 Theatre of the Child’s Rights
stage and costume designer in edu-theatre
educational theatre performance, director: Radu Apostol, playwright: Mihaela Michailov
production: Replika Asociation in collaboration with the Comedy Theatre, Bucharest
2013 Initiation in Photography workshop for children
workshop coordinator
2-days workshop for children ages 5-12
urban exploring through photography
part of the Victoria Film Festival
2012-2014 Familia Offline
stage and costume design in edu-theatre
educational theatre performance, director: Radu Apostol, playwright: Mihaela Michailov
production: Replika Asociation in collaboration with the "Teatrul Foarte Mic" Theatre, Bucharest
FESTIVALS:
2020 Ars Electronica Festival 2020 - In Kepler’s Gardens, Linz, Austria
Divided, 2020
2020 Simultan Festival, Timișoara, Ro
The System in the Room, 2020
2020 BETA 2020 - Enough is enough (Bienala de arhitectură Timișoara)
Alfabet Anina, 2018
2019 Fusion Urban Games Festival, Matera, Italy
Matera Narrative Puzzle, 2019
2019 Torino Graphic Days, Torino, Italy
The Ping Pong Series, 2019
MEH zine, 2019
2019 Romanian Design Week, Bucharest, Ro
The Ping Pong Series, 2019
MEH zine, 2017-2019
2019 TAKAVOIR - laboratoire des nouvelles images, France
Eviction Notice, 2017
2018 Poitiers Film Festival, Poitiers, France
Eviction Notice, 2017
2015 Festivalul de teatru independent FNTI / National Independent Theatre Festival Bucharest, Ro
Amintiri din epoca de școală, 2014 - won grand prize
2015 Festivalul European al Spectacolului Timișoara – Festival al Dramaturgiei Romanesti (FEST-FDR)
Amintiri din epoca de școală, 2014
2014 Temps D’Images
Theatre for Child’s Rights / Teatrul Drepturilor Copilului, 2014
2013 Temps D’Images
Familia Offline, 2013
2013 Explore Dance Festival
Familia Offline, 2013
CONFERENCES AND PAPERS:
2020 The post aesthetic journey of an installation
Journal of Drama Teaching Vol. 4 Iss. 2(7) 2020
2020 Play as a tool for exploring the concept of urban systematisation. System in the Room
Co-authors: Teodora Ungureanu, Anca Băduț
Utopian Cities, Programmed Societies, Vol. II, 2020
2019 Narrative puzzle in a post-industrial city
presented at the Zip-Scene Conference on Analogue and Digital Immersive Spaces, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary and the Augmenting Performance Conference at CINETic in Bucharest, Romania
to be published in the ZIP-SCENE conference proceedings
2019 Bauhaus - a model for integrating play in arts education
article - to be published in the “Architecturae et Artibus” scientific journal
100 Bauhaus International Scientific Conference, Bialystok, Poland
2019 Victoria Summer School Journal
Co-author: Teodora Ungureanu
published by Loughrorough University and printed at Idea Press, 2019
2018 Post-processing on scale models - a tool in design education
paper presentation - published in LUMEN Proceedings
11th LUMEN International Scientific Conference Communicative Action & Transdisciplinarity in the Ethical Society, Targoviste, Romania
2018 Participatory design in educational theatre
paper presentation
11th LUMEN International Scientific Conference Communicative Action & Transdisciplinarity in the Ethical Society, Targoviste, Romania