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Dana Olărescu

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Finding Home in Education

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🍉 You Look As Though You Might Be A Relation is a floating installation that will travel across Gloucester Docks during Refugee Week.

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It is inspired by children’s ingenuity in building simple floating devices, and we are fortunate to buil

🍉 “Hello there!” cried Moomintroll through the storm, to show he was not afraid.

“Hello, hello,” said the sea-troll. “You look as though you might be a relation.”

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In The Moomins and the Great Flood, written

🍉 Since last summer, I’ve been working with Gloucester Guildhall on a Moomin 80 x Refugee Week commission exploring radical hospitality and the idea of making kin beyond bloodlines.

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Tove Jansson’s books have always encouraged an open

🍉 It feels deeply unsettling, even inappropriate, to post about ‘work’ at a time when people are being starved, bombed, and stripped of their dignity. Yet, in the midst of this grief, it also feels essential to remind ourselves that othe

🍉 I am so excited to welcome Dr. Mariana Pereira as a researcher for Abundant Futures.

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A post-doctoral research associate at the University of York, Dr. Pereira works within the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre, where she explores

🍉 I’d be lying if I said I’m not missing the performing arts. When Miranda Hill, Programme Associate at Art Gene, and I discussed possible interventions for the exhibition launch, it became clear that activating the reed structure was mo

🍉 Our ancestors built their settlements on salt marshes using every available natural resource.

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My second artwork for the Deluge exhibition, ‘We All Go Down!’, is a hybrid shelter blending traditional and modern materials. It combin

🍉 ‘Adapt, or…’ is an advertisement-like poster transformed into a saltmarsh altar within the Deluge exhibition. This altar speaks to the present reality for some and the impending future for others, the rising sea levels and their

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