Monica Mureșanu

Research projects

- 2019 Member of the ARCH TECH LAB project team which involved the organization of an architectural technology laboratory and the development of the materials library of the Department of Sciences
- 2020 Member of the ARCH TECH LAB 2 project team which involved the continuation of the organization of an architectural technology laboratory, the development of the material library of the Department of Sciences DST Lab. and its promotion among UAUIM students.
- 2022: Member of the CNFIS-FDI-2022-0517 Sustainable LAB project team, field "Correlation of educational offer with labor market demand, counseling and career guidance".
- 2022: Member of the CNFIS-FDI-2022-0514 project team Development of the necessary infrastructure for the diversification of practical activities in the field of architectural technologies, the field "Ensuring the proper functioning of university botanical gardens, teaching stations, practice bases and other infrastructures for supporting didactic activities, similar to the practice bases, in the case of universities, used for student training.
- 2022-2025 Member of the UAUIM team from the Circular City Challenge project, JPI funding program from the ERA-NET Horizon call.
- Member of the winning team with the Tu-act project funded by ARCUB (following its selection in the call for cultural projects from December 2021 – ARCUB grant) – partnership with UAUIM
- Mentor in the Urban up! Grows up Fellowship February 2022 - November 2022 up of the De-a Arhitectura association - partnership with UAUIM
- 2022-2024 Team member of the Palimpsest Cities: Gamification and Storytelling for Architectural History and Cultural Heritage Awareness' Erasmus + project team.

Conference participation

- June 3, 2010 presentation at the symposium: Opportunities and responsibilities of the designer in the context of Sustainable Development, Scientific Communications Session of the Department of Technical Sciences of the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism with the communication: "The Parisian influence on the eclectic architecture of Bucharest ends of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th century";
- May 5-6, 2011 Bacău: participant with accepted communication at the "Cultural Spaces" international conference, organized by the Vasile Alecsandri University in Bacău. The title of the presented communication: "The cultural identity of Bucharest-analyzing the text and the subtext of the contemporary urban space";
- July 22 - 27, 2011, Cugir-Deva: Summer School and International Festival for Intercultural Dialogue "Diva Deva", 5th edition - "Austrian influences in the Transylvanian cultural space". The title of the communication): "Austrian influences in the urban Transylvanian architecture";
- September 15-16, 2011, Karlsruhe: "Branded spaces" international conference organized by the Karlshochschule International University. The title of the communication: "Cannibal Architecture hates BANANA's. Post-communist rebranding of historical sites";
- December 9-10, 2011 National Urban Education Conference. The title of the communication: "The built heritage of the 19th century in the segregated landscape of contemporary Bucharest";
- June 5-8, 2012 participation in the conference: Inaugural Conference of the Association of Critical heritage Studies, Gothenburg, Sweden with the article: "Emotion and the eclectic heritage. Case study Bucharest";
- July 15-17, 2013, participation in the international Symposium: "Conservation, restoration and promotion of protected historical monuments and areas - Braila Pilot Center" with the communication: "Research and Case Study in the Historical Center of Braila, with Students from the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism";
- 24-25 October 2013 participation in the conference: "Touring Consumption International Conference" Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe, with the communication: "How Tall Can the Acacia Grow?" Cityscapes between Conviviality and Mass Invasion";
- 24-25 October 2013 participation in the conference: "Touring Consumption International Conference" Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe, with the communication: "The ACACIA Paradox: Built Heritage Conservation versus Increasing Tourism";
- September 4 – 7, 2014 participation in the conference: "Patrimony and Local Identity", Valea Verde; The title of the communication: "ECLECTIC vs eclectic Bucharest between heritage without identity and identity without heritage";
- 16–17 October 2014 participation in the conference: "Rethinking Management", Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe. The communication with the title: "Pride and Concrete: What to manage when culture plus economy doesn't amount to cultural economy";
- November 21-22, 2014 participation in the conference "11th Annual Conference of the Romanian Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology (SASC)", Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Cluj-Napoca with the communication: "Urban mentalities, trends and conflicts within the eclectic city. The case of Bucharest".
- 13-16 October 2015 participation in the international workshop "Conservation/adaptation: Keeping alive the spirit of the place Adaptive reuse of heritage with 'symbolic value'. EAAE Thematic Network on Conservation - Workshop V. University of Liège & Hasselt University.
- June 11-12, 2016 participation in the annual professional meeting "Atelierele de la Sibiu" at the communication session "Brick always reinvented" with the paper: "New techniques for studying and representing historical brick buildings".
- March 11-13, 2017 participation in the conference: "Life beyond tourism: Heritage for Planet Earth 2017" with the communication: "Chemotherapy: the duality of heritage-tourism relationship", Florence.
- June 8-9, 2019 participation in the annual professional meeting "Workshops from Sibiu" in the communication session with the communication: "Patina - temporal paradox"
- September 25-28, 2019 participation in the international workshop organized by EAAE Conservation/Demolition VII with the subsequent publication of the article "Living with fractures. A conservation paradox" (in progress)
- October 3-4, 2020 participation in the annual professional meeting "Workshops from Sibiu" at the communication session with the communication: "Hipster revival, capital for the preservation of rural heritage"
- October 11-15, 2021 – participation in the Training of Trainers professional meeting within the Eurbanities 2.0 international project, Krakow
- February 21-22, 2022– participation/organizer at the Training of Trainers professional meeting within the international project Eurbanities 2.0, Bucharest
- April 11-15, 2022– participation/organizer at the Training of Trainers professional meeting within the Eurbanities 2.0 international project, Berlin
- March 31 – April 2, 2022: Bridging the knowledge transfer gap through true multimedia interactive documents. Artem organizational creativity & sustainability (ARTEMOCC, 4th Edition), Nancy.
- 24–25 June 2022: Gamification in Education. Assessing Viable Solutions for Teachers. Education, Reflection, Development (ERD 2022, 10th International Conference), Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Cluj-Napoca.
- 21–24 September 2022: Conservation Vs. Urban Development. CONSERVATION / SUSTAINABLE DESIGN - PORTO, PORTUGAL, EAAE Thematic Network on Conservation, Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto.
- October 8-9, 2022 organizer and participant in the annual professional meeting "Workshops from Sibiu" at the communication session with the communication: Transparent wood. A new paradigm?
- January 23-24, 2023 Training of Trainers Alanya, within the Palimpsest Cities: Gamification and Storytelling for Architectural History and Cultural Heritage Awareness' project

Publications and articles

- The cultural identity of Bucharest – analyzing the text and the subtext of the contemporary urban space, INTERSTUDIA – Review of Interstud / Interdisciplinary Center for Studies of Contemporary Discursive Forms, no. 11(1)/2012, Bacau: Alma Mater, pp. 39-45;
- Austrian influences in the urban Transylvanian architecture in Austrian Influences and Regional Identities in Transylvania (2012), Ed. François Bréda, Valentin Trifesco, Luminița Ignat-Coman, Giordano Altarozzi, AB-Art, Bratislava, pages 110-125;
- Cannibal Architecture Hates BANANAs: Post-Communist Rebranding of Historical Sites, in Branded Spaces: Experience Enactments and Entanglements (2013), Ed. Stephan Sonnenburg & Laura Baker, Springer, pp.229-246.
- How Tall Can the Acacia Grow? Cityscapes between Conviviality and Mass Invasion, in Touring Consumption (2015), Ed. Stephan Sonnenburg & Desmond Wee, Springer, pp.201-228.
- The ACACIA Paradox: Built Heritage Conservation versus Increasing Tourism, in Touring Consumption (2015), Ed. Stephan Sonnenburg & Desmond Wee, Springer, pp.229-260
- Defending defenses. A parallel between two cases: Loncin and Bucharest in Conservation-Adaptation keeping alive the spirit of the place adaptive reuse of heritage with symbolic value (2017) Ed. Donatella Fiorani, Loughlin Kealy, Stefano Musso, EAAE Hasselt, pp. 201-206;
- in Zeppelin no. 146 June-August 2017 pp. 134-142;
- Chemotherapy: the Duality fo Heritage Tourism Realtionship in Proceedings of the 19th General Assembly of the International Experts, Florence 2017 pp. 189-194
- New techniques for studying and representing historical brick buildings in Brick always reinvented (2017), Ion Mincu University Publishing House, pp.77-95
- "Living with fractures. A conservation paradox" in "Conservation - Demolition" ed. Rodica Crișan, Donatella Fiorani, Giovanna Franco, Loughlin Kealy, Stefano Musso, Petr Vorlik, EAAE Prague, 2021

Workshops, competitions

- February 27-March 5, 2010 - Coordinator and organizer of the international student workshop "Eco-Rehabilitation of Mass Housing Neighborhood in Bucharest";
- July 19-29, 2010 Coordinator and organizer at "Sibiu Summer University 2010, 10th edition". ATU (Association for Urban Transition) and "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism;
- October 6–October 9, 2011 – Bucharest: member of the organizing team of the international workshop for teachers and researchers: "Modernist Neighborhoods: conservation/regeneration". Organizers: EAAE - ENHSA Network Conservation, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Genoa, "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism;
- July 21–August 4, 2014: Organizer/coordinator of the Budacu Task Force interdisciplinary workshop – Strategies and solutions for the sustainable development of the mountain rural area in the Bistriței – Borca – Broșteni Mountains.
- April 6–10, 2015: Study trip organizer – Cluj-Napoca – European Youth Capital, year 3, Faculty of Urbanism.
- August 8–18, 2015: Coordinator "Sibiu Summer University 2015, 11th edition - (Re)fabricating the city - The past as the future". ATU (Association for Urban Transition), UAR, UAUIM.
- July 2016 Coordinator and organizer at "Sibiu Summer University 2016, XIIth edition". ATU (Association for Urban Transition) and "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism;
- July 5-9, 2016: Study trip organizer - Sulina, year 3, Faculty of Urbanism.
- July 10–24, 2016: Coordinator "Sibiu Summer University 2016, twelfth edition - Responsible City". ATU (Association for Urban Transition), UAR, UAUIM.
- September 3-11, 2016 – Member of the organizing team of the INURA international conference "CITY IN TRANSITIONS: SPACES OF CONFUSION, PLACES OF HOPE";
- July 10–14, 2017: Study trip organizer – Sulina, year 3, Faculty of Urbanism.
- July 16–24, 2017: Workshop organizer/coordinator "Dilemma of Saxon villages", "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest / Sibiu.
- May 25–28, 2018: Study trip organizer – Sulina, year 3, Faculty of Urbanism.
- July 16–23, 2018: Workshop organizer/coordinator "Dilemma of the Saxon villages II: Retro-topia", "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest / Sibiu.
- October 21–26, 2018: Study trip organizer – Bucharest, year 2, master's in Management, Karlshochschule International University.
- January 14–24, 2019: "Imagining Tomorrow" workshop coordinator, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Utrecht University of Arts (HKU), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Karlshochschule International University, Indian School of Design & Innovation (ISDI) Mumbai, "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism (UAUIM).
- July 12–16, 2019: Workshop organizer "Decoding the city", "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest / Sulina.
- July 17–24, 2019: Workshop organizer "Dilemma of the Saxon villages III: Tomayto, tomahto", "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest / Sibiu.
- July 19–26, 2021: Workshop organizer "Dilemma of Saxon villages IV: From fork to fork", "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest / Sibiu.
- July 18–25, 2022: Workshop organizer "Dilemma of Saxon villages V: Rural dimensions", "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest / Sibiu.
- 2021-2022 Consultant of the UAUIM student team in the Solar Decathlon project https://efden.org/efden/
- December 8-20, 2022 Tu_act hackathon organizer, member of the competition theme drafting team, in the project financed by ARCUB, in partnership with UAUIM

Other information

Exhibitions organized as an author:
- 25–26 March 2015 – co-author (Florin Mureșanu, Monica Mureșanu) Cannibal Architecture Has a Taste for the Eclectic - DEVOUR international exhibition! Sozialer Cannibalismus, politische Neudefinierung und Architektur. ZKU (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik), Berlin.
- April 30 – June 4, 2015 – co-author (Florin Mureșanu, Monica Mureșanu) Cannibal Architecture Has a Taste for the Eclectic - DEVOUR international exhibition! Sozialer Cannibalismus, politische Neudefinierung und Architektur. Kunst Kraft Werk, Leipzig.

Main areas of interest: architecture, heritage conservation