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Inside Romanian Design Week: What Does an Open City Mean to You?

Andrei Borțun, the creative entrepreneur behind Romanian Design Week (RDW), sees this year’s show as an opportunity to “unlock” the capital’s potential, posing a question to all of us – visitors and creators, locals and foreigners – to reflect on what it takes for a city to be truly open?

Words: Ioana Negoescu | Illustration: Doina Titanu | May 2024

My Taste of Transylvania

I came to Taste of Transylvania, a gastronomic festival, to plunge into the unfamiliar – which showed that Transylvania, at least that weekend, was terroir, not territory; an instrument for promoting multiculturalism.

Words: Adriana Sohodoleanu | Photos: Adorjan Trucza | June 2024

Sfântu Gheorghe: VENI, VIDI, AMAVI

Everyone has their own piece of paradise. Sfântu Gheorghe is mine, this village where the Danube kisses the sea. Light outlines every detail, giving it life and form. My annual journey here takes place in August – a week of films, sea, fish, and figs.

Words: Anca Dumitrescu | Photos: Alice Voinea | August 2024