About

The studio is Kornelia Dimitrova’s spatial design and advice practice, helping care communities with identifying and addressing their spatial challenges.

To tackle the uncertainties of our future, we need to create productive architectures, which help our societies envision more desirable, shared and inclusive futures. This is why the Studio’s projects are always research-based, critical and collaborative, involving stakeholders and experts alike, and connecting both to the local and the global scale.

In a 2-year PDEng design research at TU Eindhoven, Kornelia developed and tested her methods in the context of GGZE, one of the largest mental healthcare facilities in the Netherlands. Working with a combination of architectural and social design methods, the studio facilitates workshops to harvest community insights, designs future visions, based on the real needs and questions of the community, and translates these into custom spatial transformation strategies. 

​This is done through mapping the current perspectives and experiences, generating pathways for the future transformation, creating explorative visualisation of how the place can look like following the values of the community, and devising a step by step spatial transformation approach that guides decision-making in the near- and long-term future.

Affiliations

Foundation We Are
In 2018, Kornelia Dimitrova and 7 designers co-founded Foundation We Are, a collaborative design collective working with societal actors and organisations to strengthen their innovation capacity.

OASE Journal for Architecture
Since January 2020, Kornelia is member of the editorial board of OASE. She was part of the core editorial team of issue #107 on The Drawing in Landscape Design and Urbanism. And is currently working on issue #112 on Ecology and Aesthetics.

Clients and collaborations