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Design For Social Innovation

Migrant Integration Lab Awareness Campaign - ACT AGAINST EXCLUSION // EMPOWERING HYBRID IDENTITY // BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES. The renowned International artist Carmen Emanuela Popa is known as leading conceptual garments designer, and not only. She describes herself as “an artist who militates through his work for peace and non-violence and addresses as man to man of ordinary human beings.” Her unique work with innovative character goes beyond the limits of stereotypes, borders and invites the public to a complex and intransigent dialogue on the social issues that are now intensifying in the contemporary world. She launches through her work to manifest a message of tolerance and love under all forms of expression of the disfavoring or happier actors of humanity.

FROM TRADITION TO AVANT-GARDE

Future Folk aims to contribute to the revitalization and promotion of the immaterial cultural heritage of Romania, putting into value the contemporary essentials - the traditional costume....

The Official Book of FUTURE FOLK
Project Europe For Culture 2018

The creator’s ability to recover past elements, some of them very ordinary, and to give them a futuristic look is always surprising. The collaboration with the Romanian National Commission for UNESCO started last year, with the 56 Route exhibition, whose motto was The Fight Against Xenophobia, Extremism and Aggression, which could not be but in agreement with the taste of such a cerebral artist, but who makes extra-efforts to tone up emotion and assume the contemplation of "absolute beauty", while beauty that can also be defined as a poem of a pacifist essence of the world.

Expozitie Muzeul National al Satului Dimitrie Gusti, București

Proiect de promovare al patrimoniului cultural imaterial prin design vestimentar contemporan. Iniţiativa este dedicată Centenarului Unirii şi se înscrie în campania europeană 2018 – Anul european al patrimoniului cultural, propunându-şi să contribuie prin mijloacele designului vestimentar, prin artă, la cunoașterea și revitalizarea patrimoniului cultural imaterial al României. Colecţia şi întregul proiect „FUTURE FOLK” pun în valoare costumul tradițional al românilor şi al minorităţilor naţionale din toate zonele ţării....

Institutul Cultural Român partener Future Folk

Proiectul Future Folk este o iniţiativă a Asociaţiei Alumnus Club UNESCO din Bucureşti, cofinanţată de Administraţia Fondului Cultural Naţional (AFCN), Centrul pentru Tineret al Municipiului Bucureşti şi Comisia Naţională a României pentru UNESCO. http://carmenemanuelapopa.com/...

Interview TVR

It is my kind of suggestion, as an artist, to say: here is how the two worlds can intersect. These interstices can be flagrant. Imagine a high-tech romanian blouse.. it has remained in its cutting line and just added this material change. I love this world very much, I have also had a reach childhood in the rural area and I really enjoyed this context, which is why I feel very well here at the National Village Museum in Bucharest. There are many similarities between the minority costumes and the traditional Romanian costume. ...