Developed by the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca in collaboration with BDF – Bucharest Design Festival and The Institute, the exhibition project Space as Active Memory continues the lines of research initiated within the In itinere / În mișcare / On the Move platform. The project explores the relationship between the body, image, and archive as living forms of collective memory and as agents in the transformation of contemporary space. Presented at Mobius Gallery in Bucharest as part of the BDF Communities Amzei and UAD100 programs, the exhibition served as a meeting ground for artistic research, interdisciplinary practice, and critical reflection on spatial memory.

Coordinated by Radu Pulbere, Mara Rațiu, Alice Iliescu, Florin Marin, Tina Chiriță, Larisa Petcuț, and Adrian Buda, and curated by Alice Iliescu, Florin Marin, and Adrian Buda, the project brings together doctoral and master’s students from the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, representing the departments of Graphic Arts, the MA Program in Comics and Animation, Sculpture, Painting, and Photo-Video. The diversity of these practices creates a complex dialogue between artistic media and methodologies, united by a shared interest in investigating memory as an active process of identity formation and social interpretation.

The artistic interventions offer diverse perspectives on identity, the archive, and urban memory through the projects: Between Self and Collective: Identity as a Territory of Transitions by Claudia Stăcescu; Fragments from Your Space by Marcus Ionescu; (Un)Stable Dialogue by Catrinel Alecu & Vlad Ursu; SubCapital: Stories from the Paper City by Roberta Gașpar; Archive in Becoming: Between Living Memory and Cultural Capitalism by Adrian Buda; and The Body as Social Memory: Structures of Identity by Sebastian Boca.