Ruxandra Lupu

April 2024 - De-centering fashion narratives: mapping sustainability knowledge in textile crafts through the lens of metaphor theory, International Conference Arts & Crafts and Design, Saint Etienne, France

May 2024 - Mapping creative gestures in crafts: embodied cognition, metaphor and meaning, The Creative Gesture conference, Campobasso, Italy

September 2023 - MOSAIC: designing context-appropriate methodologies for mapping craft skills, BICCS, Marienstad, Sweden

June 2023 - Clwstwr: A model for research, development and innovation in the creative industries, Panel presentation, Locating Media Industries conference, London

October 2022 - The virtual life of textiles: a provisional haptic library model. Paper presentation. Global Fashion Conference (Germany) 2022

August 2022 – The freedom of the migrant: from amateur film to new placemaking potentials. Paper presentation. Space in Movement: Dynamic trajectories in Audio-Visual Representations. Cinema, Television, Series, Web, University of Bergen

July 2022 –The role of green innovation in the Welsh screen sector. Policy brief presentation. ClwstwrVerse event (organised by the University of Cardiff).

May 2022 – Audio-visual experiments in place Video Essay production. Flusser Summer School, Robion/France July 2021 - Lingering memories: a poetics of identity of the Sicilian home movie archive. Video essay presentation.

IAMCR conference

Oct. 2020. Visioni dall’oltre mare. Conference presentation. Second international seminar on public history, Lecce, Italy

Feb. 2020 - Poster presentation at the European Congress of Qualitative Enquiry

Jan 2019. Home movie 4.0 – L’archivio amatoriale siciliano tra pubblico e privato, fisico e digitale, creativo e storico. Paper presentation. Conferenza/Scrivere la storia, costruire l’archivio, Udine Italy

Oct 2019- ‘Spaesi: the poetics of identity in the contemporary city’, Innovate Heritage, Catanzaro Italy

Jun 2019 - ‘ILUCIDARE focus group & co-creation atelier’|ERI for Heritage, Krakow, Poland

​Jun 2019 - ‘Affection-images: imagining the world through non-images’, CtEO, Leicester UK

June 2018. What you feel is what you see. Paper presentation. Summer School: Sensing Collectivities – Rethinking the Haptic: Touch, Movement, and Surfaces, Hamburg Germany

April 2017. Reel landscapes – the travelling aesthetics of memory. Paper presentation. Locating Imagination: Popular Culture, Tourism, and Belonging: ‘’, Rotterdam Netherlands

April 2015. From storytelling to story doing – the dematerialization of authenticity in contemporary cultural tourism strategies, Paper presentation and round table discussion. Los Orígenes de las Sociedades del Mediterraneo - ITINEREM project, Mallorca Spain.