HISTORY
Andreea Ștefan has graduated the Faculty of Interior Architecture, Product Design department, within the University of Architecture and Urban Planning Ion Mincu, from Bucharest. She has participated in several workshops and design projects, among which two international workshops within MEDS, in 2011 and 2012, at Istanbul and Ljubljana. Andreea also worked as a leather bags designer for the Masi Design company and she was an intern in the graphics and web design departments, at PRO TV. Now she is working at an architecture office and she is attending a second master, of Industrial Design and Inovative Products, within the Politechnic University, in Bucharest.
ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK APPEARANCES
2014 // SENSE YOUR CITY
Andreea Ștefan has graduated the Faculty of Interior Architecture, Product Design department, within the University of Architecture and Urban Planning Ion Mincu, from Bucharest. She has participated in several workshops and design projects, among which two international workshops within MEDS, in 2011 and 2012, at Istanbul and Ljubljana. Andreea also worked as a leather bags designer for the Masi Design company and she was an intern in the graphics and web design departments, at PRO TV. Now she is working at an architecture office and she is attending a second master, of Industrial Design and Inovative Products, within the Politechnic University, in Bucharest.
ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK APPEARANCES
2014 // SENSE YOUR CITY
The workshop aimed to interact with Ljubljana by challenging the citizens to use their senses. The challenge took the form of small design projects that would intervene with the regular city life. The workshop had an outcome of seven tangible projects, among which Human wall, Dinning by the river or The smell box. We noted the many narrow alleyways in Ljubljana, and the sensation of emerging from a tight space into a wider street or square, and we wanted to enhance this sensation. We made a wall of people behind a blanket which would hinder an easy passage for pedestrians. Ljubljana is dominated by the river, but in a particularly nice place there was a noticeable lack of resting spaces. We designed a table and two seats for the broad fence along the bank, to enable pleasant pauses at this location. The idea behind The smell box was to take all the smells of the market place and put them into one monumental box, with the aim of stirring people’s curiosity, as well as their senses. The attached chalk enabled people to communicate their experience at the box with others, in order to create a sense of community around the project.