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Karmen Franinovic is an architect and artist who is focused on the creative, critical and active use of technology in architecture and in public space. By introducing interactive technologies into physical architecture and immaterial space, she seeks in her work to stimulate social interaction and to raise awareness of the surroundings and its diverse ecologies. Karmen received the Bachelor's degree from Istituto Universitario di Archittetura di Venezia, studied at the TU in Berlin, and received her Master's degree from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. She worked as a Project Designer on architectural projects with AltenArchitekten, Studio ArchA, Studio Sottass, Arata Isozaki and Associates, and Arup. Her theoretical research on hospitality, home, exile, borders, body-action and collective events manifests in responsive spaces, digital architecture, video and interactive installations. Her work has been presented at Ircam/Centre Pompidou (Paris), SF Cameraworks (San Francisco), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo(Torino), Bienal Miami + Beach, Museum of Modern Art (Ljubljana), Far Eastern Memorial Foundation (Taipei) and others. Together with Yon Visell, Karmen founded Zero-th Studio, an independent interdisciplinary research studio developing projects, concepts, and theory related to space, time, ecologies, and their dynamic relations. |
