Research projects
2017-20: Innovative Urban Education in Live Settings. Local presence and mapping techniques as tools for promoting urbanity and innovation. A model of collaboration between universities and communities. Funded by ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures. Member of the ATU (Urban Transition Association) team, together with the School of Architecture, The University of Sheffield; Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (FDV), coord. Tampere University of Technology, School of Architecture.
2016-18: EUrbanities. Erasmus+ partnership for the development of playful tools and pedagogical recommendations for trainers and teachers in various fields of education, to increase the capacity of citizens to participate in urban development processes. Partners: ATU, together with the Institute for Regional Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Science; Institute of Urban Development Krakow; Urbanism Helsinki; Mine Vaganti Sardinia; Euro-Net Power; coordinated by the Comparative Research Network Berlin.
2014-2015 - URBOTECA - PIPE-LINE: research project for the formulation and testing of public consultation tools for decisions on urban development, 2014-2015.
financed by EEA grants 2009-2014, within the NGO Fund in Romania; partners: ATU, Poiana lui Iocan, Odaia creativă and Nordic Urban Development Association. Project coordinator: Vera Marin, ATU.
Harvard Research Seminar “From Riverbed to Seashore. Art on the Move in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period ”, Program Director Prof. Alina Payne, Harvard University, 2014-2015. Funded by the Getty Foundation, through the Connecting Art Histories initiative. Personal research project: Sociability Seeps through the Lower Danube: the introduction of Coffee to Moldova and Wallachia in the 17th Century
Fulbright Junior Award, individual research internship at the University of Cincinnati, OH - College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, 2012-2013. Urbanity practices in urban regeneration processes in Cincinnati, OH.
Conference participation
Speaker:
“The Power of One. About the Social and Economic Resilience of ‘Heritage Communities’ ”in Risk Reduction for Resilient Cities (RRRC), Bucharest - UAUIM, 3-4 November 2016. https://www.rrrc.ro/
“Urbanity in the discourse and practice of Urban Design after 1956”, Multi-, Inter-, Pluri-: Languages, Cultures and Identities in Complex Societies, the 18th annual international conference of the Conceptual History Group (HCG Group), Timișoara , September 2015.
„3 E for heritage: Economy, Education, Ensemble”, Developing cities: policies for the restoration and enhancement of historic urban landscapes in Africa and the French-speaking world. Issues of a francophone network of the heritage, architecture and urban planning, Dakar, July 2014. https://aimf.asso.fr/Villes-en-developpement-politiques-de-restauration-et-de-valorisation-des.html
“Bridging Architecture and Society in Post-Communist Romania”, Romanian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, March 2013.
“Transforming Society in Romania?”, European Science Open Forum ESOF 2012, Dublin, Careers program: South Eastern Europe Facing the Knowledge Society, July 2012.
Publications and articles
(editor) - Sala Dalles. A fragment of urbanity 1932-2019, Bucharest: MNAC Publishing House (multi-disciplinary monograph financed by OAR from the architecture stamp / the highest score from the jury in the 2019 session; in preparation)
(co-editor) - studies in History and Theory of Architecture, editor-in-chief Ana Maria Zahariade, Ion Mincu University Publishing House Bucharest (annual journal, volume 8 in preparation). Coordinator volume 3, 2015: “De
Urbanity. Tales of Urban Lives and Spaces” and volume 8, 2020: “Architectural Aesthetics. An Old Matter Revisited” https://sita.uauim.ro/ academic journal indexed in Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science), Scopus, EBSCOhost, Index Copernicus, CEEOL, ERIH PLUS, DOAJ, ProQuest / Ulrichsweb, Scipio, Google Scholar, WorldCat
Calciu D. (2022) Sociability Seeps through the Lower Danube: the introduction of Coffee to Moldova and Wallachia in the 17th Century ”in Alina Payne (ed.) From Riverbed to Seashore: Art on the Move in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period (Leiden: Brill)
Calciu, D., Pop, I. (2020) Maybe We Should Just Stop Using the Word “Architecture”. In studies in History and Theory of Architecture, vol 3, ISSN 2344-6544, Web of Science Core Collection: Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Calciu D. (2016) Memories and the City, Heritage and Urbanity. In: Boștenaru Dan M., Crăciun C. (ed.) Space and Time Visualization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24942-1_7
Calciu, D. (2015) ... this is something we could dwell on, and create something new, perhaps even more stable in terms of urbanity. In studies in History and Theory of Architecture, vol 3, ISSN 2344-6544, Web of Science Core Collection: Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Băncescu, I, Calciu, D. (2014) On Changes in the Dwelling Conditions of the Romanian Roma under Communism. In Nnamdi Elleh (ed.) Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes. London, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603766
Workshops, competitions
2019 - Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen scholarship (IWM Vienna) for participation in the Democracy and Demography Summer School, 17-24 August 2019. https://www.iwm.at/index.php/event/democracy-and-demography
2018 - TATE scholarship for participation in TATE Intensive: Making Space, Holding Space, Giving Space 2018, TATE Modern, July 8-13, 2018. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/course/tate-intensive-making-space-holding-space-giving-space
2018 - Bucharest Annual Award for Architectural Publications, magazines section - for sITA - studies of History and Theory of Architecture - associate editor; editor in chief: prof. dr. arch. Ana Maria Zahariade.
2017 - visiting fellow at Sheffield School of Architecture, Live Pojects, September 25 - November 3
2017 - AFCN Award (National Cultural Fund Administration) for cultural activation in the public space - Military Library project, BASAR studio - team member;
Graduated studies
PhD Architecture, highest honours, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest, 2007-2014.
MSc Integrated Urban Development, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest, 2007-2009.
MA Architecture, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette – Pole Architecture, Arts, Philosophy, 2005-2007.
BSc Architecture, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest, 2001-2007.
Academic background
2020-present: assistant professor, Department of Basics of Architectural Design
2016-2020: teaching assistant, Department of Basics of Architectural Design
tenured in February 2016
2014-2016: associate, teaching assistant, Department of Basics of Architectural Design
2007-2014: doctoral student, teaching assistant, Department of Basics of Architectural Design
2007-2017: collaborations with the Department of History & Theory of Architecture
2021-present:
lead, 1st year Architectural design studio, taught in English
Dissertations and diploma projects (6th year students)
Design studios [2007 - 2021]
Introduction to Architectural Design, 1st year students [2007-2009]
Basics of Architectural Design, 2nd and 3rd years [2009-2021]
Architectural Theory and History [2007-2017] - taught seminars for:
Architectural Language 1st and 2nd year students (assoc. prof. Mihaela Criticos)
Introduction to Contemporary Architecture, 1st year students (prof. Ana Maria Zahariade)
Archiitecture – Dwelling – City, 2nd year students (prof. Ana Maria Zahariade)
Architecture – Context – Landscape, 3rd year students (prof. Ana Maria Zahariade; assoc. prof. Celia Ghyka)
Traditional Architecture in Romania, 3rd year students (assoc. prof. Horia Moldovan)
Guest lectures on dwelling, the urban project
Architectural projects
Nomination - Research in architecture / architecture books section, The 2019 Bucharest Architecture Annual Awards, for Ilinca Păun Constantinescu (ed.), Shrinking Cities in Romania, MNAC Books: 2019.
Prize of the “Architecture Books” section, The 2018 Bucharest Architecture Annual Awards, for Marginalia. Limits within the Urban Realm. (Studies of History and Theory of Architecture, 2017)
Prize of the “Architectural Research and Architectural Visions – interventions or experiments” section, The 2017 Bucharest Architecture Annual Awards, Shrinking Cities in Romania (coord. Ilinca Păun Constantinescu)
National Cultural Fund /2017 – Cultural activation in public space category – Award / for “City School 2016-2017: The playground – Library from Militari”, applied education program led by studioBASAR
Prize (ex-equo) of the Architectural publications section, National Biennial of Architecture 2016, for studies in History and Theory of Architecture.
Finalist of the urban inventions competition the Would-be City – Galati, episode 2050 and 3rd place in the public ranking. Team coordinator. (2011)
3rd prize: Redesign of the Livada Postei Park in Brasov, Romania. Ideas competition, 2011. Team coordinated by Ina Stoian, Andrei Gutu, Ana Maria Horhat. Defined the mission statement and action plan.
2nd prize and the Special Prize of the Public Jury. Urban Design for Public Spaces – Cibin Market Place, Sibiu. International student competition, 2007. Team leader and spokesperson.
2nd prize: Architectural Solutions for The Studio Hall, Odeon Theatre, Bucharest. Radu Dragan’s team (2006).
Other information
Main research topics: co-design, participatory action research, housing and urban practices, the role of public institutions of culture and education in 21st century society