Irina Bogdan

Irina Bogdan is an architect with a background in research and computational design, currently focusing on developing speculative discourses on the topics of human-machine collaboration and machine vision. Her explorations led her to develop in collaboration with Gili Ron “Project: Galath3a”, a speculative study of women’s image in the digital age with robotic fabrication and human-machine collaboration at Berlin Open Lab (Universität der Künste), Berlin. In her multidisciplinary practice that spans over a period of more than eight years, the Romanian designer is building bridges between the fields of art, new media, architecture and design. As a spatial designer and an art project coordinator, she collaborated between 2018-2021 with Studio Tomás Saraceno after working as an architectural designer and associate for UNStudio between 2013-2017. In 2016 she was invited as panel finalist at the Lexus Design Award (Milan Design Week) with the project “Slow Door”. As one of the members of the Romanian Pavilion design team for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012, she participated in the design and production of the “Play Mincu” interactive installation led by Emil Ivanescu. With an active interest in promoting computational design methods, she tutored workshops (“The Architecture Spring Challenge”, at Universität für die Angewandte, Wien; “Questionable Traditions” at UAUIM, Bucharest), and gave talks(TED Talk, 2012) on the impact of digital design fabrication in architecture and the creative fields.