monica tusinean

affiliation: tu berlin + kit
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Monica Tușinean

tusineanmonica@gmx.net

 

Monica Tușinean is an architect and researcher focusing on design-driven and artistic investigations - her work centres around Romania’s neglected industrial heritage and innovative adaptive reuse approaches for urban wastelands.

Born in Romania, she now resides in Germany, where she has been pursuing her design-based doctorate at the Technische Universität Berlin in the “Programm Entwurfsbasierte Promotion”, contributing to the intersection of architecture, preservation, and sustainable urban development.

Her experimental research explores visual methodologies that bridge lacunas in socio-cultural and political discourse on post-communist architectural aesthetics. She works as a freelance architect, teaches at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and contributes to the digital architecture magazine “Kontextur”.


More information: monica-tusinean.com

research

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  • Design Phenomenographies for Industrial Wastelands (2025) author(s): monica tusinean published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
    The long-neglected industrial wastelands of Romania present themselves as heterotopias in need of help. Post-Communist industrial ruins form a link to a multi-layered and difficult past, and their systemic erasure has contributed to a collective amnesia that perpetuates historical trauma and denies the local population access to the landscapes, natural and artificial, that tie them to a shared past and a collective cultural identity. This contribution aims to illustrate one methodology of bridging the gap between preservation through museumification and invasive architectural intervention. In this context, artistic and design-driven research practices can enable the emergence of ephemeral creative spaces that foster engagement with industrial heritage and reach beyond commodification and capitalist exploitation.
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