Iulia Statica

Iulia Statica

Lecturer in Urban Design at the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, UK

Iulia Statica is a Lecturer in Urban Design at the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, UK. Between 2019-21 she was the Marie Curie Research Fellow at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Her research interests focus on the relationship between gender and domesticity in the development and transformation of housing infrastructures and urban landscapes in Eastern Europe and Latin America. She employs documentary film as an integral aspect of both research and practice; her documentary — My Socialist Home — will be premiered in her forthcoming exhibition Archiving the Home: Gender and Domesticity in Postsocialist Bucharest in London. Statica completed her PhD at the Department of Architecture at the University of Rome La Sapienza in 2016, and was awarded the Fellowship in Architecture at the Romanian Academy in Rome (2012-14). Between 2018 and 2019 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Latin American Studies Program, at Cornell University. She is the author of Urban Phantasmagorias: Domesticity, Production and the Politics of Modernity in Communist Bucharest (Routledge, forthcoming 2022).

Working Group Affiliation

Insurgent Domesticities