12.02.2025 / Perspectives Author: Zoe Alice Deotto, M.A. Candidate Among the luminous trails of traffic on Boulevard Lascar Catargiu and the neon lights of downtown shops, there is a Bucharest that rests. A Bucharest of the past, chained to the present and drawn into it. It rests, broken and silent....
17.02.2025 / Perspectives Author: Margherita Galluccio, M.A. Candidate Modern art emphasizes the importance of communication over mere representation. It is through communication that the artist reaches into the viewer’s consciousness, aiming to capture their attention. Throughout history, art has constantly faced a social system attempting to impose its own rules....
12.02.2025 / Perspectives Author: Ioana Alexandra Frîncu What is the most effective way of violating one’s freedom of speech? By silencing them. By making sure they cannot and will not be heard. By censoring their opinions and monitoring their every thought and even their existence, just to ensure that they...
30.01.2025 / Perspectives Author: Giuseppe Caruso, M.A. Candidate Outside that grid lies a free world, where you will choose who to be, what to say, and who to vote for! Look, observe closely, then let your gaze fall back on that small patch of dark ground, set aside, detached from...
13.02.2025 / Perspectives “Contrast” is the word that best describes the capital of a country that right now is swinging between an intricate sense of nostalgia and the perspective of an uncertain future. Author: Giovanni Gabriele Manca, M.A. Candidate “To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven...
23.01.2025 / Perspectives Author: Giorgia Zazzeroni, M.A. Candidate Of suffering, I know nothing. I do not know the depth of pain. I cannot define its edges, not even blurred, the pain that chains my mind, that stifles its power. I know of other lives, drained, abused, silenced, damned, destroyed, repressed....
13.02.2025 / Perspectives Author: David Sofonea Abundance The mural in Hitteen, Riyadh, conveys a dynamic between creativity and cheerfulness, combining elements of sports, music, and urban art, which can create a sense of identity. The representation symbolizes movement and an active lifestyle, which are essential for mental well-being. In my...
SDG 11 aims for safer settlements. However, safe cities are not only those that “proactively reduce urban crime such as antisocial behavior, street robbery and burglaries through a mixture of policing, technology deployment, and offender management” (IFSEC Global) but also those that recognize the decisive role of the urban landscape...
06.04.2023 Fear of crime affects the quality of life of all citizens. But, above all, it imposes disproportionate limitations on women’s daily lives, limiting their active participation in the public life of a city. As all urban residents have the right to live in a secure and safe city, proactively...
August 11, 2022, 16.00-19.30 (Romanian time, hybrid, in English) Comparing these disparate regions opens a window into many dimensions of the contemporary Romanian problematic, if not of post-communist societies more generally. Both the Jiu Valley coal region and Țara Făgărașului, with extensive chemical factories, experienced intense industrialization during communist times...