Meet The Project Team

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Lect. Dr. Arh. MUREȘANU Monica

Lect. Dr. Arh. MUREȘANU Monica is a Lecturer and Doctor of Architecture. Within the project team, she represents the Faculty of Architecture (FA), specifically contributing her expertise to the department of Technical Sciences (Științe Tehnice). Her background combines academic teaching with advanced technical knowledge, ensuring structural and material precision in design frameworks.

Monica Muresanu photo in UAUIM Amphitheatre

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 Science
2020 Member of the ARCH TECH LAB 2 project team which involved the continued organization of an architectural technology laboratory, the development of the materials library of the Department of Science DST Lab. and its promotion among UAUIM students.
2022: Member of the project team CNFIS-FDI-2022-0517 Sustainable LAB , field “Correlation of educational offer with labor market demand, career counseling and guidance”.
2022: Member of the project team CNFIS-FDI-2022-0514 Development of the infrastructure necessary for the diversification of practical activities in the field of architectural technologies , field “Ensuring the proper functioning of university botanical gardens, teaching stations, practice bases and other infrastructures supporting teaching activities, similar to practice bases, in the case of universities, used for student training.
2022-2025 Member of the UAUIM team in 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 December 2021 call for cultural projects – ARCUB grant) – partnership with UAUIM
Mentor in the Urban up! Grows up Fellowship program February 2022 -November 2022 up of the De-a Arhitectura association – partnership with UAUIM
2022-2024 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: “Parisian influence on the eclectic architecture of Bucharest at the end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th century”;
May 5-6, 2011 Bacău: participant with accepted communication at the International Conference “Cultural Spaces”, organized by Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău. 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”. Title of the paper: “Austrian influences in the urban Transylvanian architecture”;
September 15-16, 2011, Karlsruhe: International Conference “Branded spaces” organized by the International University Karlshochschule. Title of the paper: “Cannibal Architecture hates BANANA’s. Post-communist rebranding of historical sites”;
December 9-10, 2011National Conference on Urban Education. Title of the paper: “The 19th century built heritage 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 enhancement of protected historical monuments and areas – Brăila 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”;
October 24-25, 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”;
October 24-25, 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; Title of the paper: “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”.
October 13-16, 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 “Sibiu Workshops” at the communications 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 “Sibiu Workshops” at the communications 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 “Sibiu Workshops” at the communications session with the communication: “Hipster revival, capital for the preservation of rural heritage”
October 11-15, 2021 – participation in the professional meeting Training of Trainers within the international project Eurbanities 2.0, Krakow
February 21-22, 2022– participation/organizer at the professional meeting Training of Trainers within the international project Eurbanities 2.0, Bucharest
April 11-15, 2022– participation/organizer at the professional meeting Training of Trainers within the international project Eurbanities 2.0, Berlin
March 31 – April 2, 2022: Bridging the knowledge transfer gap through true multimedia interactive documents. Artem organizational creativity & sustainability (ARTEMOCC, 4th Edition), Nancy.
June 24 – 25, 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.
September 21 – 24, 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 at the annual professional meeting “Sibiu Workshops” at the communications session with the topic: Transparent Wood. A new paradigm?
January 23-24, 2023Training of Trainers Alanya, within the project Palimpsest Cities: Gamification and Storytelling for Architectural History and Cultural Heritage Awareness’

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, pp. 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 historic brick buildings in The Ever-Reinvented Brick (2017), Ion Mincu University Publishing House, pp.77-95
“Living with fractures. A conservation paradox” in “Conservation – Demolition” ed. Rodica Crisan, Donatella Fiorani, Giovanna Franco, Loughlin Kealy, Stefano Musso, Petr Vorlik, EAAE Prague, 2021

Guest teacher

09.2018 – 31.01.2019, Guest Professor for the “Culture, Market and Consumption” module, master’s program. Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe, Germany;
14 – 24.01. 2019, Erasmus+ teaching mobility, HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands.
09.2019 – 31.01.2020, Lecturer Culture, Market and Consumption module, Master’s program Management MA Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe, Germany
Member of the Diploma Committee of the Indian School of Design & Innovation (ISDI) Mumbai, 2021

Workshops and 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 of the “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 interdisciplinary workshop Budacu Task Force – Strategies and solutions for sustainable development of the rural mountain area in the Bistrița Mountains – Borca – Broșteni.
April 6 – 10, 2015: Study trip organizer – Cluj-Napoca – European Youth Capital, 3rd year, Faculty of Urban Planning.
August 8 – 18, 2015: Coordinator “Sibiu Summer University 2015, 11th edition – (Re)manufacturing the city – The past as the future”. ATU (Association for Urban Transition), UAR, UAUIM.
July 2016 Coordinator and organizer of the “Sibiu Summer University 2016, 12th edition”. ATU (Association for Urban Transition) and “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism;
July 5 – 9, 2016: Study trip organizer – Sulina, 3rd year, Faculty of Urban Planning.
July 10 – 24, 2016: Coordinator of the “Sibiu Summer University 2016, 12th edition – Responsible Cibin”. ATU (Association for Urban Transition), UAR, UAUIM.
September 3-11, 2016 – Member of the organizing team of the international conference INURA “CITY IN TRANSITIONS: SPACES OF CONFUSION, PLACES OF HOPE”;
July 10 – 14, 2017: Study trip organizer – Sulina, 3rd year, Faculty of Urban Planning.
July 16 – 24, 2017: Organizer/coordinator of the workshop “The Dilemma of Saxon Villages”, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest / Sibiu.
May 25 – 28, 2018: Study trip organizer – Sulina, 3rd year, Faculty of Urban Planning.
July 16 – 23, 2018: Organizer/coordinator of the workshop “The Dilemma of Saxon Villages II: Retro-topia”, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest / Sibiu.
October 21 – 26, 2018: Study trip organizer – Bucharest, 2nd year, Master in Management, Karlshochschule International University.
January 14 – 24, 2019: Workshop Coordinator “Imagining Tomorrow”, Utrecht, 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: Organizer of the workshop “Decoding the City”, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest / Sulina.
July 17 – 24, 2019: Workshop organizer “The Dilemma of Saxon Villages III: Tomayto, tomahto”, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest / Sibiu.
July 19 – 26, 2021: Workshop organizer “The Dilemma of Saxon Villages IV: From Fork to Fork”, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest / Sibiu.
July 18 – 25, 2022: Workshop organizer “The Dilemma of Saxon Villages V: Rural Dimensions”, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest / Sibiu.
2021-2022 Consultant to the UAUIM student team in the Solar Decathlon project https://efden.org/efden/
December 8-20, 2022 Tu_act hackathon organizer, member of the team preparing the competition theme, in the project funded by ARCUB, in partnership with UAUIM