Projects

Back to our Sheep | Lavinia Ghimbășan

An exploration of Romania’s pastoral heritage reexamines the wool industry by prototyping new collaborations that breathe life into local wool, transforming it into contemporary forms that harness its renewable, biodegradable, thermal, and acoustic potential.

Back to our Sheep - The Movie | Lavinia Ghimbășan

A film documentary captures Romanias local wool transformation, from the forgotten and archaic wool practices, to the industrial.

Balkan Baroque | Dinu Bodiciu

A project that brings together traditional, handcrafted macramé textiles—symbols of domestic craft and cultural heritage—with mass-produced, globalised garments in the form of sportswear.

Caution! Rotating Blades | Alesia Cîdă

A children’s playground is been modelled on the workings of a textile shredder - sheding light on the complex process of textile recycling in Romania.

Knitting, Night & Day | Amalia Săftoiu

A double-sided cape transforms artist Felicia Simion’s self-portraits into a knitted artwork, combining photographic precision with traditional knitwear structures.

Whats Next | Maria Dombrov, Gabriela Rada

A collection of interviews with workers from the Uniunea Tehnologiilor Textile (UTT) spinning mill is presented alongside selected threads, each unraveling the human side of Romania’s textile industry.

Unsolved Patterns | Andreea Pleșa, Mihaela Vișovan & Cătălin Botean

A collection of cycling jerseys explores textile waste and the recycling challenges of blended fibres, developed at the Cottontex factory in Timișoara by combining digital and analogue pattern-making to transform standardised production waste into three low-waste designs.

Unsolved Patterns - Labour and Product | Andreea Pleșa, Mihaela Vișovan & Cătălin Botean

A video that explores the relationship between labour and the product by analysing workers’ repetitive movements during the sewing process.

Shifts in Global Textile Markets | Norbert Petrovici with Studio Interrobang and Victor Ionichi

A series of infographics illustrate the transformation of Romania’s textile sector and its changing role in global textile value chains between 1962 and 2022.

From – To: Letters to the city | Young Matters

A collection of letters and generated imagery explores possible futures for Timișoara through personal reflections addressed to the city, its neighbourhoods, and its inhabitants.

The Looming Workshop

A community workshop revived the tradition of the Romanian șezătoare, bringing together former textile workers, local residents, and visitors to reconnect with the neighbourhood’s industrial heritage through collective weaving and storytelling.