Design Art Papers 2025 | No. 13

Fig. 4 / Ioana Văcariu project, in which he adds to the shape of shoe footprints a disconcerting element, that of animal tracks. Through this project, the artist questions the connection between man and his natural area, often forgotten, creating an image that manages to surprise. The urban traces thus become a metaphor for the disjunction between what we call human and the space of the human, what we call animal and the space related to this realm. Romanian artist Matei Bejenaru gathered in front of Tate Modern in London more than 200 Romanian people who live andwork inGreat Britain in thework Together (2007). By his call for the artwork, Bejenaru gathered a mass of people who didn’t know each other, documenting the image of the crowd standing in silence, with an architectural background, recalling the images of socialist realism. Dan Perjovschi’s workmade in Timișoara in 2023 is amoving artwork, as his project for the Cultural European Capital opening event. Perjovschi covered a tram with his drawings which are a mixture between image and text. One of the messages inscribed in the „exhibition on wheels” was: „ This tram is a painting that ran away from the museum and is now wandering around the city ”. [4] The tram circulated in the town of Timișoara almost the whole year, becoming a catalyst for the interplay between history, memory and both between the people in the vehicle and those watching from the outside. The next paragraph is about the students’ work from the Faculty of Arts and Design from Timișoara, where we had as a reference the relation between them and the public space during the pandemic. This relation was transformed into an image more like a picture canvas, where the urban space is a support for their shadow. An image which relates to the subject of camouflage, reminds also the connection between the human face and an old building. Ioana Văcariu’s work is a short video, using the act of passing as the main element of the work. The red dress is both amusing and deep, transmitting ideas about the relation betweenher and theenvironment, creatingacharacter likea playful alien. As a conclusion, we can see that various artistic mediums which use the human body as an actor in relation to the urban space are meant to reveal social, political or ecological attitudes. Urban space is an essential element, being in antinomy with the genuine natural space, often forgotten or even betrayed. Amap of different actions and interactions using the human body enriches our vision about a world which is balancing between personal and public, history andmemory. NOTE / END NOTES [1] Steven Pile, The Body and the City , Routledge, Oxfordshire,1996, p. 243. Design Applications. Biomimetics, MDPI, 23.08.2024 [2] Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek, Wioletta Kazimierska-Jerzyk, Aestethic Energy of the City , Uniwersytet Łódzki, 2016, p. 37. Design Applications. Biomimetics, MDPI, 23.08.2024 [3] Jane Brettle and Sally Rice, Public Bodies - Private States , Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1994, p. 20. [4] https://revista22.ro/cultura/un-tramvai-numit-perjovschi (accesat 20 octombrie 2025) 271 270 / / / / Caiete de Arte și Design / nr. 13 / 2025 / / / / Publicație a Centrului de Cercetare și Creație în Artele Decorative și Design / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /