curriculum vitae
Maria Mandea
b. 1991, Bucharest, Romania
playfulness, participatory practices, performative design, recent histories and contemporary social contexts
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 Perssonel
National University of Theatre and Film "I.L. Caragiale”, Bucharest
2 years course, Bucharest
WORK:
2017-present studio super:serios
co-founder together with urbanist T. Ungureanu
design studio
www.superserios.ro
2012-present Micul HAOS toys
founder, toy designer and photographer
2020 Divided game
immersive installation game
Deep Space 8K, Ars Electronica Center, Linz
2019 Matera Narrative Puzzle
urban game
Fusion Urban Games Festival, Matera, Italy
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-present 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
presented at Poitiers Film Festival (2018)
and TAKAVOIR - laboratoire des nouvelles images (2019)
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 designer in edu-theatre
educational theatre performance, director: Radu Apostol, playwright: Mihaela Michailov
production: Replika Asociation in collaboration with the "Teatrul Foarte Mic" Theatre, Bucharest
CONFERENCES AND PAPERS:
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
article about my participation in the summer school
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