Monica Radu works as an IT Analyst in Groupe Société Générale and she is a certified counselor for personal development. As a disabled person and wheelchair user for 25 years, she enjoys sharing her experience and observations, in order to contribute to a better understanding of the issues regarding the professional path of a disabled…
Cristina Săracu is involved in consulting and volunteering projects, in both organisational and educational areas. In 2022 she founded Incluziune pe Bune [Inclusion for Real] – an NGO involved in promoting inclusion through concrete, coherent and impactful actions and projects. In this interview we go deeper into the topics of LGBTQIA+ inclusion in Romanian workplaces…
Iris is an architect specializing in accessibility and inclusive design while coordinating the NGO she founded in 2015 – AMAIS. The NGO’s main focus is creating an equitable society for people with temporary, context based or permanent disabilities by applying the principles of inclusive design through: architecture, technology and social projects. This interview was first…
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.” – Brene Brown Intimacy is everywhere. Where is yours? This is the invitation you receive as you take your first steps inside the Museum of intimacy – a collection of vulnerable memories and thoughts on intimacy curated…
Short profile Ioana Lupașcu is a multi disciplinary artist with a background in architecture. She moved to London after finishing university and she’s been working with various mediums and formats ever since. Among her projects I want to mention her beautiful contribution to Walala x Play, a labyrinthine network of corridors and enclosed spaces built…
Carmen Nasr is the volunteer coordinator at the Hackney Pirates Ship, a charity working to develop the literacy, confidence and perseverance of young people in Hackney. She’s the first person to greet you when you go for your volunteering session and it’s likely she’ll carry a laptop with her and a piece of paper with the…
Cristina Groșan is a tremendously talented visual artist and film director. Her award-winning shorts have been screened at over 70 festivals and events worldwide. Most recently, Cristina was granted production funding for her debut feature “Things Worth Weeping For” by the Hungarian Film Fund and will start shooting in the spring of 2019. I wanted…
Meet Laura. She is a creative textile designer based in Leeds who studied textiles at A-level, went on to art college to do a foundation, then studied textile design (specialising in knit) at Huddersfield. I’ve had a few weird jobs since then. I designed socks in my gap year, travelled to South Africa and designed…
For a big period of my life I couldn’t imagine my parents to be something other than just parents. My parents. As if they were trapped into a time frame where their only identity and purpose was to be just Mom and Dad. True, they happened to have jobs and parents of their own and…
The first time I met Sasha I learnt he was a Russian living in Romania and that’s all I bothered to remember. After that we bumped into each other a few times, chit chatted about this and that, mostly out of politeness, and that was it as far as I was concerned. But several…