Bucharest, Romania
I empower circular fashion design. I am a researcher, lecturer, contextual fashion designer and the founder of SOLVE Studio. Through multi-disciplinary collaborations, I contribute to the shaping of the future of fashion and the way we design things. SOLVE is a multidisciplinary social innovation studio in design and sustainability, whose expertise lies in co-creating solutions for the circular economy through design, within the fashion & lifestyle industry. The studio’s design work is strongly connected to the academic research that I conduct in circular fashion design. SOLVE works with design thinking, new technology and circular economy, offering design and consultancy services to organizations. I also share my expertise by guiding and teaching students as a guest lecturer at VIA Design University in Denmark, and Malmö University in Sweden. I am always looking to scale the impact of my knowledge and help create new agents for change. Therefore I am always open to new opportunities and collaborations.
Developing the Refashion circular zero-waste fashion design system together with the team from the Chair for Interaction- and Comunication-based Systems as part of the project Circular Lab. Activities: • Development of prototypes for circular textile products and processes adjacent to the project Circular Lab • Research conducted together with the ICS-HSG and/or project partners • Organizing and conducting lectures and workshops in the Lake Constance region to promote circular design and circular value chains • Elaborating best practices for the textile industry with Circular Lab project partners.
Solve is a multi-disciplinary social innovation studio in design and sustainability. We create products that we wish existed, as we believe that design has an added value to the world, apart from aesthetics. We work with design thinking, new technology, and circular economy to co-design sustainable social innovations. www.solve.studio Instagram @studio.solve
Responsible for developing and delivering lectures on: • Multidisciplinary approach towards circular design (circular economy, design thinking, user-driven design, biomimicry) • Sustainable innovation (design strategies, business models, novelty sustainable materials and practices within fashion and product design) Speaker at conferences and participating at panel debates regarding circular economy and circular design.
Responsible for developing and delivering introductory lecture series on sustainability in the Leadership for Sustainability Master’s Programme (lectures, seminars and workshops for 60+ students). Topics include: • Hstory of sustainability in the political and business context • Corporate sustainability management and tools • Design thinking approaches • Circular economy
• Consultancy and guidance on sustainable practices for the development of business models and product design • One of the two founders of the Sustainable Business Design & Entrepreneurship HUB, a learning hub for responsible innovation within the fashion & lifestyle industry dedicated to students and teachers at VIA Design University • Initiator and one of the developers of the Sustainable Innovation Traineeship. The programme is an international traineeship for students from both VIA Design and AU Herning Universities on creative and innovative design around sustainable practices. It has a multi-disciplinary approach with input across design, business and material engineering.