Co-Director of Oikodrom and Dissemination Expert.
Trained in African studies and Gender Studies at the University of Vienna and Leiden (NL), she is an experienced project manager in the fields of science, culture and arts with a wide regional expertise (China, Eastern Europe/Caucasus, Mediterranean region/Arabic countries, Sub-Sahara Africa). Since 1999 she has been working as an independent journalist (print, radio and TV) and as a film director for cinema documentaries, TV and image films. Her work at the interface of science and culture includes participatory video workshops for scientific research projects (film and its analysis as part of participatory action research) and the realisation of documentaries and film clips for different audiences – from policy makers to urban residents – and different media (websites, cinema, conference screenings etc.). She is particularly interested in challenges related to inter- and transdisciplinary work, and in innovative ways how we can disseminate scientific and cultural topics and processes to policy makers and wider audiences.
mail : ina.ivanceanu@oikodrom.org
Language SkillsGerman: mother tongue
English, French: business fluent
Swahili, Dutch, Romanian: conversation
Routine in working in multi-lingual and multi-cultural teams, use of German, English and French as working language
Project Leadership
| 2006 | “Jeder siebte Mensch/Every seventh person”, film director, documentary film on Chinese villages, 35mm, 76′. World Premiere: Viennale 2006., Amour Fou Film Production, Minotaurus Film, Luxemburg, Oikodrom- Vienna Centre for Sustainability |
| 2007 | Project Leader Visual Arts for Peter Sellars Festival “New Crowned Hope”, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Curating/programming and leading the Visual arts programme at Künstlerhaus, working directly for artistic director Peter Sellars, June, July |
| 1999-2004 | “Bunica”, film director, documentary film on post-communist Romania.S-16mm, 80′. World Premiere: Nyon Filmfestival “Visons du Réel” 2005. Festivals: u.a. Diagonale, Thessaloniki, Calo Vivary.www.bunica.at |
Film-, Research- and Conference Projects
| 2005-2008 | HAMMAM – Hammam, Aspects and Multidisciplinary Methods of Analysis for the Mediterranean Region, (FP6-2003-INCO-MPC-2, Contract number: 517704), participatory video films in the case study hammams, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Austria, Concept and Realisation of participatory video films (DV-Cam), Director for the documentary film “Hammam” |
| 2002-2005 | SUCCESS – Sustainable Users Concepts for China Engaging Scientific Scenarios, 5th Framework Programme, INCO-DEV A 4, participatory video films in the case study villages in China, participatory video films, film script and directing |
| 2004 | Science & Art Conference “Landscape and Film”, Oikodrom- Vienna Centre for Sustainability, Vienna, Kunsthalle wien project space, Concept and Conference Design/ Programming |
| 2002 | Concept and Coordinator Project “Table Ronde” Arts and culture project between Austria and Senegal, Austria, Senegal, Project design, fund raising, implementation, January-August |
| 2001 | Art Conference “Mining Cultural Diversity”, Vidc/Vienna Institute for Development and Co-operation and Kunsthalle, Vienna, Kunsthalle wien, Concept and Conference Design/Programming, May-November |
Additional Experiences
| 2001-2007 | Free lance journalist (radio, tv, print), ORF, Der Standard, Südwind etc., Vienna; fact finding missions to Burkina Faso, China etc, Various Radio and TV Documentaries and articles on Science, Culture, Development Cooperation (Ö1 science and culture, FM4, ORF Treffpunkt Kultur) |
| 1997-1999 | Research Fellow, Institute of African Studies, Vienna University, Vienna, Uganda, Scientific research for the FWF-project “Participation and development” , focus on Austrian development co-operation in Uganda |
Selected Publications
| 2000 | “Participation: the case of Austrian development co-operation and micro credits in Uganda” (in English language, published in Afro Pub Vienna, 2000) master thesis, University of Vienna, Department for African Studies |
Presentations and Lectures
| 2005 | BBC Training workshop for Radio Documentary in New Delhi, India, (funded by UK scholarship) |
| 1995-2002 | Conference Programming, workshop chairperson, lecturer, Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/BMAa (Sektorworkshop 02), vidc/moving cultures (afriCult dialogprogramm 01), Mattersburger Kreis für Entwicklungspolitik, Oikodrom, Université Jussieu VII., Paris |
