Playing
“J.S.: what sport is politics? is it chess, is it Liar’s poker? // B.O.: it's probably most like football… a lot of players, a lot of specialisation, a lot of hitting, a lot of attrition…
every once in a while, you'll see an opening. you hit the line, you get one yard. you try to play, you get sacked.. now it’s like third and fifteen.you have to punt a lot.
…but every once in a while, you'll see a hole. and then there's open field”
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Barack Obama asked by Jerry Seinfeld, in Comedians in cars getting coffee, season 7, ep. 1, 12:55
Work
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Annual Scientific Symposium – Romanian National Heritage Institute
2025
a hands-on NEB workshop blending sensory exploration, stakeholder roleplay, and collaborative placemaking to reimagine urban life at Lahovary Square through empathy, creativity, and co-designed transformation
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Symposium of deMIT - Dottorato Nazionale in Design per il Made in Italy
2024
lead a manifesto workshop for a Symposium on interdisciplinary perspectives and the New European Bauhaus, organised by deMIT, a national PhD course coordinated by the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", with more than 15 Italian Universities
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Results and sustainability cultural programs and projects - EEA Grants
2024
as part of the EEA Grants event , the workshop engaged 100+ international professionals in an experiential introduction to the values, tools, and collaborative spirit of the New European Bauhaus
Foundational Projects
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Giurgiu Water Treatment Plant: Heritage Reimagined
2022
a co-design session with local children to envision educational areas inside Giurgiu’s historic water treatment plant, as part of a future restoration project designed by ALA Studio.
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The Digitisation of Ianca Museum
2022
a bi-directional digitization and training project at the Ianca Museum, combining in-situ 3D scanning of heritage artefacts with interdisciplinary workshops that empowered students and highschoolers to co-create digital tools for cultural preservation and museum innovation
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EDRAH_Giurgiu. Economic Development in Relation to the Architectural Heritage
2018-2019
an intensive on-site workshop combining bottom-up urban analysis and integrative documentation methods, where an international group of 18 Master’s and PhD students in architecture, urbanism, visual arts, and social sciences worked in interdisciplinary teams to map Giurgiu’s identitary heritage—building a reference database to guide future rehabilitation strategies.
