Keynote
06.12.2021
Mariana will be giving a keynote for Innovation Design Engineering Masters at the Dyson School of Design Engineering of Imperial College London.
Lecture
01.12.2021
Mariana will be giving a lecture for Brady Peter’s undergraduate class on computational design at the University of Toronto Daniels School of Design.
Master Class
12.11.2021
Mariana will be giving a master class for the Materialising with Machines class (led by Mathilde Marengo) of the IAAC Masters in Robotics and Advanced Construction.
Keynote
05.11.2021
Mariana Popescu will be giving a keynote at the ACADIA 2021: Realignments – towards critical computation conference.
Shaping The City Forum
15-16.10.2021
Mariana Popescu will be the moderator of the Architecture, Technology and Construction theme during the Shaping the City Forum at the European Cultural Centre (ECC) in Venice
Klimahouse 4.0
07.10.2021
Mariana Popescu will give a presentation at the Klimahouse 4.0 event “Digitalization meets sustainability”
Panel
04.10.2021
Mariana Popescu will be part of the panel “Die Burevolution: Textil und Digital” organized by Die Schweitz in Deutchland and IBA 27.
CD Next: 6.0
02.10.2021
Mariana Popescu will be presenting at the Parametric Architectures “Computational Design Next: 6.0” conference
Keynote
20.09.2021
Mariana Popescu will be giving a Keynote presentation “Textilien sind das Material der Zukunft : mit Textilien zum nachhaltigen Unternehmertum” organised by Swiss Design Prize and Swiss Textile Network
BASWA
19.08.2021
Mariana Popescu will give a presentation for the BASWA Acoustics vision day.
Lecture at ECAL
30.04.2021
Mariana Popescu will give an online lecture for The Master of Product Design at ECAL in the context of the “Shape, Memory, Matter” research project led by Camille Blin
Presentation IStructE
13.05.2021
Mariana Popescu will be giving an online presentation for the IStructE third annual Digital Design and Computation Conference.
Board of Trustees IBA’27
Stuttgart 2021
Mariana has joined as a member of the Board of Trustees for the International Building Exhibition 2027 (IBA27) Stadtregion Stuttgart.
Online Lecture at KIT
19.11.2020
Mariana will be giving an online lecture for the SKIZZENWERK lecture series at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Online Lecture Pratt
13.10.2020
Invited by Prof. William Watson, Mariana Popescu will be giving an online guest lecture for the materials/methods/meaning course at the Pratt Institute.
Presentation at FABRICATE
09.09.2020
Mariana Popescu will give one of the only 20 selected paper presentations at FABRICATE 2020 – Making Resilient Architecture
DigitalFUTURES awards
04.07.2020
Mariana received a ‘DigitalFUTURES Young Award’, given to emerging scholars in digital architecture.
Lecture at UCL Bartlett
19.05.2020
Mariana will be giving a talk in the “Making Magic Happen” series for the Interactive Architecture Lab students at The Bartlett School of Architecture.
MAA thesis review
31.03.2020
Mariana will be part of the jury for the Master in Advanced Architecture Thesis project presentations, supervised by Dr. Areti Markopoulou w/ Nikol Kirova and Eduardo Chamorro at IAAC Barcelona.
World.MINDS
12.12.2019
Mariana will be giving a talk at the World.Minds annual symposium in Zurich. Watch the talk here.
KnitCandela wins A’N Best Design
04.12.2019
KnitCandela is a winner in the Digital Fabrication category of the 2019 AN Best of Design Awards.
Keynote A-A-D
29.11.2019
Prof. Block and Dr. Popescu will deliver a keynote in the closing plenary session of the Aachen-Dresden-Denkendorf International Textile Conference 2019.
TEDx Bucharest
19.11 2019
Watch the TEDx talk on how to build concrete structures using flexible moulds.
Lecture at Die Angewandte
09.10.2019
Mariana is invited to give a lecture about KnitCandela in the Building Construction Lecture Series “The Making Of Concrete Poetry” at the Angewandte in Vienna.
Keynote
24.09.2019
Mariana joined in the keynote Prof. Block at 11th Carbon and Textile Reinforced Concrete Days, organised at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden on Sep 24-25.
MIT EmTech
19.09.2019
As MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 Pioneer, Mariana will participate and give a short talk at MIT Emtech 2019, organised at the MIT Media Lab.
Lecture at Harvard GSD
19.09.2019
Mariana is invited by Jose-Luis Garcia del Castillo to give a lecture at the GSD on digital fabrication, knitting, textiles, and their potential impact in a more sustainable building future
Architizer A+ Award
10.07.2019
KnitCandela jury and popular choice winner at the Architizer A+ Awards 2019 nominated in the category “Architecture + Concrete“.
Dezeen Awards
09.07.2019
KnitCandela longlisted in the category “small building” and mentioned as a highlight for the Dezeen Awards 2019!!
MIT 35 under 35
19.09.2019
Mariana has been named to MIT Technology Review’s prestigious annual list of Innovators Under 35 as a Pioneer, recognised as exceptionally talented technologists whose work has great potential to transform the world.
MaterialPREIS
26.06.2019
KnitCandela receives acknowledgement prize for “study & vision” at materialPREIS 2019 award ceremony in Stuttgart.
AZ Award
26.06.2019
KnitCandela among the winners of the AZ Awards 2019 with an Award of Merit and the People’s Choice Award in the category “Temporary and Experiential Installations”.
Lecture TU Braunschweig
19.06.2019
Invited by Prof. Dr. Norman Hack, Mariana will present her work in the SKI (Seminar konstruktiver Ingenieurbau) lecture series at TU Braunschweig, Germany.
Talk at NXTBLD
11.06.2019
Mariana has been invited to give a lecture at NXT BLD 2019 on June 11 in London. Watch the talk here
PhD defense
04.06.2019
Mariana successfully defended her PhD dissertation on “KnitCrete: Stay-in-place knitted fabric formwork for complex concrete structures“. Additionally, her thesis committee, consisting of Prof. Dr. Chokri Cherif of TU Dresden, Prof. Dr. Jan Knippers of University of Stuttgart and Prof. Block, nominated her for an ETH Medal for outstaning thesis!
Milan Design Week
09.04.2019
Invited by the Material Balance Group at PoliMilano, Mariana will present her work on computational knitting at the event “Shaping textiles for architecture” for the Milan Design Week 2019, organised on April 9th at Palazzo Regione Lombardia by the Politecnico di Milano.
LafargeHolcim Foundation
02.04.2019
Mariana is participating (as an expert) in the LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction 6th Forum on “Re-materializing Construction”, held this year in American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt on April 4-6.
Talk at ARUP
20.02.2019
Mariana has been invited by Arup Foresight to give a talk at the “Arup Explores – Designing with Digital Fabrication” event at the Autodesk Technology Centre in Birmingham, UK.
Keynote Textile Intersections
06.12.2018
Hosted by Nottingham Trent University (NTU) on behalf of the ArcInTex Network, Mariana will be giving the keynote at the “Knitting the Gap: Textiles meets Architecture meets Textiles” conference.
Digital Concrete 2018
12.09.2018
Mariana won the best oral presentation at Digital Concrete 2018 – the First RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, held at ETH Zurich!
ETH-Tag
17.11.2017
Mariana gives a short presentation as one of the 3 young researchers for the ETH yearly festivities. Watch here
Bartlett Plexus Paris
02.09.2017
Invited by Pierre Cutelic, Mariana will present her work during the Bartlett Plexus series in Paris. watch talk here
Design Modelling Symposium
02.09.2017
Mariana will be presenting her work on the automated generation of knitting patterns at the Design Modelling Symposium Paris 2017