Marius Găman is an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Politehnica University Timișoara. He works in :STUDIO, a research and experimentation laboratory, focusing on understanding and exploring urban patterns and parameters, urban transformations and planning practices, architecture and design. :STUDIO is dedicated to creating sustainable interventions and projects, developed mainly for competitions and academic research. These investigations and experiments have been published, awarded and exhibited nationally and internationally.
Project description in English
Part of the first edition of FAST, Festival for Architecture Schools of Tomorrow, under the theme Sustainable Futures, the exhibition organized within the U Barracks addresses the theme of sustainability both through the use of an abandoned space, intentionally not refurbished for the event and through the reuse of all the objects within it in the faculty spaces afterwards.
The FAUT 50+3 exhibition represents a collage of projects - different disciplines, generations, academic years - a thematic structuring of the creative chaos, divided between the history of the faculty, the 50 years celebrated in 2020, and its present, namely the last 3 academic years, in particular post pandemic, marked by changes in vision, approach and digitalization.
The collage exhibition presents the discontinuous story illustrated by the projects of the two bachelor's degrees, Architecture and Furniture and Interior Design, the 3 master's degrees, the organized practice activities and the research projects developed.
The U Barracks hosts under the umbrella of "after sculpture" a non-linear presentation in the form of a collage of stories - the objects, models, created in the framework of the architecture degree in the last 20 years. The theme of living in the urban environment is illustrated by projects from years 2, 3 and 5.
Inspired by the exhibition organized in the same space Monumental and Ephemeral. Sculptural Memory, the selection of pseudo-sculptures frames the training cycle of architecture students by presenting in parallel projects realized in the first and last year of study. Covering 20 generations, the themes, architectural styles, and issues addressed form a mosaic of the identity of the Timișoara School of Architecture.
The theme of the collage is carried further in the organization of the exhibits and their interaction with the space, overlapping histories, materialities, new and old, physical space and imaginary worlds. The black wall leads visitors to the entrance, the gaps allowing the framing of central elements of the exhibition without, however, allowing the route to be short-circuited. The use of large tables placed in the center of the spaces open up multiple routes for visitors to traverse the exhibition, each generating its own collage, omitting or returning to certain areas, and constantly presenting the exhibits in the context of the decaying space.
