Brave New World – Romanian Migrants’ Dream Houses
Edited by Raluca Betea and Beate Wild
Romanian Cultural Institute: Bucharest, 2016
Contents:
4
Dreams Realised
The Exhibition Project
Beate Wild
The exhibition
10
Exhibition Concept
Xaver Victor Schneider
Essays
Migration and Social Recognition
48
58
Prestige or Economic Calculus?
Reflections on Migrants’ Houses in Romania
Remus Gabriel Anghel
Transnational Dimensions
106
Objects that Travel with Emigrants from Maramureș
Anamaria Iuga
118
The Left-Behind Kids are Alright
Lina Vdovîi
124
Photographing the New Romanian Village
Petruț Călinescu
Urban Architecture in a Rural Setting
134
146
156
Travelling in Architecture through Europe
Rudolf R. Gräf
The Old vs a New Cultural Landscape
178
Rural Landscape and Migration
Mihaela A. Hărmănescu