Bogdanova, Aula, Dimitrievska-Cilakova, Spasevska
Viktorija Bogdanova
Viktorija is a postdoctoral researcher in the Aalto Visual Communications Design group (AVCD). As a poet-architect, she is devoted to exploring how the intertwinement of literary methods and narrative drawings can cultivate dialogic listening to the voices of the built and natural environment. Currently she investigates variations of visual narratives within maps, through the lenses of myths and sciences (chryses.aalto.fi). Collaborative visual storytelling is her dearest kind of creative encounter, housing the embodied experience of a place and the inner noetic landscapes with the Other: the independent decision of will, creativity, spiritual sensitivity, understanding of values and love.
Inkeri Aula
Inkeri is a postdoctoral researcher in Aalto Visual Communication Design research group (AVCD). Cultural anthropologist by training, her research focuses on creative ethnographic and narrative methodologies. Currently she explores intangible cultural heritage related to physical heritage sites in Horizon-funded INT-ACT project, with co-creative and participatory methods (int-act.aalto.fi). Aula has published on diverse topics in the fields of anthropology and cultural studies in English, Finnish, and Portuguese. Her versatile research interests include environmental relationships, cultural imagination, relational onto-epistemologies, Afro-Brazilian heritage, forest myths, anthropology of the senses & multisensory ethnography, artist collaborations, and creativity and wellbeing.
Marija Dimitrievska Cilakova
Marija was born in Veles, North Macedonia. She earned her master’s degree from the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the University American College Skopje. Since establishing her practice arhitektura nova in 2019, she has worked on finding methods in architecture and design that form a balanced coherence of contextual developments in terms of social, economic and aesthetical aspects. Testing the limits of different disciplines in the native country of North Macedonia, the studio strives to deliver contemporary projects through varying scale, medium and architectural technique that often mingles art with architecture.
Danica Spasevska
Danica completed her Master's degree in Architecture in 2014 at 'Ss. Cyril and Methodius' University in Skopje. With more than ten years of experience in architectural practice, she currently works as an architect at the studio Arhitektura Nova, where she is enthusiastic about collaborating with her colleagues. Her research and design approach addresses contemporary urban challenges, focusing on the revitalization of site memories and structures through individual spatial experiences and expressions.
Concept sketch for the Athletic Stadium in Podgorica, Montenegro.
1st Prize, arhitektura nova, M. Dimitrievska-Cilakova, V. Bogdanova, D. Spasevska, I. Popovska, M. Gutovic.
Collaborative Aiming to Miss: Reinventing Aspirations in Site-Sensitive Design
Symposium participation
The work discussed in this lecture explores how intuitive collaborative and multisensorial modalities inform the design process as instruments in aiming to miss: avoiding the obvious targets and aspirations by estranging the passive perception into an attentive, creational (design-driven) state of mind.
