Curators Miriam Giordano and Patrizia Catalano have selected several designers from EU member states to exhibit at the international design exhibition. Romania is represented by two young interdisciplinary architects and designers, George Marinescu and Daria Oancea, co-founders of the Ad-Hoc architecture studio. The two Romanian designers will exhibit an iteration of the project entitled Co-LIZA, creating a new prototype especially for the exhibition. Romanian designers will hold public communications (conferences and round tables) both at the inauguration and during the exhibition, together with other designers and architects.
The exhibition project offers the Japanese and international public the opportunity to come into contact with European design artists, including Romanian designers. The project contributes to the promotion of Romanian creativity in Japan, to the identification and consolidation of existing relationships with Japanese cultural entities, but also to the establishment of new relationships and intercultural dialogue between two cultural spaces united by the interest and passion for design.
Daria Maria Oancea (Ploiești, 1987) studied at the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest (2012) and at the IUAV University in Venice (2010). She was a resident at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2020).
George Marinescu (Bucharest, 1989) studied at the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest (2015) and at the IUAV University in Venice (2014). He was a resident at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2020).
The exhibition project “Design Beyond Things. The Object as an Agent of Transformation” is supported by the Portuguese Trade & Investment Agency (Portugal Pavilion), Amorim Cork, ARTEK and Finsa, EU Delegation in Japan.
