Ioana Urma
@ioanacolor.bsky.social
Artist & CA Reg. Architect
(🇷🇴🇺🇸 in Greater Boston)
ioanacolor.com
Trying this out to see if it's a good alternative for creatives.
(🇷🇴🇺🇸 in Greater Boston)
ioanacolor.com
Trying this out to see if it's a good alternative for creatives.
Reposted by Ioana Urma
Since 2015, dozens of communities across the American South have removed, relocated & modified Confederate monuments. Often, symbolic and material imprints remain — and sometimes, the statues are simply reinstalled...
Public scholar David Cunningham wrote on this very subject for Places last month.
Public scholar David Cunningham wrote on this very subject for Places last month.
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Since 2015, dozens of communities across the American South have removed, relocated & modified Confederate monuments. Often, symbolic and material imprints remain — and sometimes, the statues are simply reinstalled...
Public scholar David Cunningham wrote on this very subject for Places last month.
Public scholar David Cunningham wrote on this very subject for Places last month.
Did you know that I am such a supernerd that I’ve always written my website by hand? (Which means somebody has to be able to read the matrix to update it 😂😢. So there are only six out of dozens of projects up there.)
ioanacolor.com
ioanacolor.com
IOANA URMA, Artist / Architect: SOCIAL & EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN
Social & Experiential Design: Creative projects for interaction & introspection.
ioanacolor.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Did you know that I am such a supernerd that I’ve always written my website by hand? (Which means somebody has to be able to read the matrix to update it 😂😢. So there are only six out of dozens of projects up there.)
ioanacolor.com
ioanacolor.com
Read about my interest in lightweight structures. www.linkedin.com/posts/ioanau...
October 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Read about my interest in lightweight structures. www.linkedin.com/posts/ioanau...
The process behind "painting" the (often) ecologically educational art on chocolate, from local New England chocolatier (NH) Clandestine Chocolates, which uses fair trade everything, makes it locally by hand, and sometimes collaborates with cartoonist Liza Donnelly.
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March 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The process behind "painting" the (often) ecologically educational art on chocolate, from local New England chocolatier (NH) Clandestine Chocolates, which uses fair trade everything, makes it locally by hand, and sometimes collaborates with cartoonist Liza Donnelly.
mailchi.mp/a6b04d24d75d...
mailchi.mp/a6b04d24d75d...
“I can't necessarily say that about any other piece of art in the City of Boston... where it's ours... Right? Like, the Big Head is ours.”
www.mfa.org/video/john-w...
#art #johnwilson #blackart #blackculture #afroamericanartists #boston #dorchester #roxbury #sculpture
www.mfa.org/video/john-w...
#art #johnwilson #blackart #blackculture #afroamericanartists #boston #dorchester #roxbury #sculpture
March 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
“I can't necessarily say that about any other piece of art in the City of Boston... where it's ours... Right? Like, the Big Head is ours.”
www.mfa.org/video/john-w...
#art #johnwilson #blackart #blackculture #afroamericanartists #boston #dorchester #roxbury #sculpture
www.mfa.org/video/john-w...
#art #johnwilson #blackart #blackculture #afroamericanartists #boston #dorchester #roxbury #sculpture
“Finnish architect and theorist #JuhaniPallasmaa has written eloquently that nurturing capacity for empathy in the designer should be part of every architect’s professional education.”
I was thinking about this eatlier for all students, especially with increasing bullying, hate, & SELFISHNESS.
I was thinking about this eatlier for all students, especially with increasing bullying, hate, & SELFISHNESS.
The Importance of Cultivating Empathy in Design Education
Grounding studio assignments in historical and current cultural issues is the best way to foster empathy in students.
commonedge.org
March 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“Finnish architect and theorist #JuhaniPallasmaa has written eloquently that nurturing capacity for empathy in the designer should be part of every architect’s professional education.”
I was thinking about this eatlier for all students, especially with increasing bullying, hate, & SELFISHNESS.
I was thinking about this eatlier for all students, especially with increasing bullying, hate, & SELFISHNESS.
I am one of these #synesthete people and it's definitely helped me learn foreign languages because I see patterns of color in the patterns of letters, and being a very visual person, can read the patterns quickly. It has also helped with math, because numbers also have colors.
#synesthesia
#synesthesia
The people who 'see' foreign languages: How synaesthesia can help language learning
Synaesthesia is a neurological condition found to enhance memory and learning. Now, scientists say seeing in colour could help when it comes to learning a second language.
www.bbc.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I am one of these #synesthete people and it's definitely helped me learn foreign languages because I see patterns of color in the patterns of letters, and being a very visual person, can read the patterns quickly. It has also helped with math, because numbers also have colors.
#synesthesia
#synesthesia
Reposted by Ioana Urma
Have President Trump and Elon Musk's recent firings impacted you or your neighbor?
Share your story.
Your story helps @housedemocrats.bsky.social fight for you.
We are introducing bills, fighting in the courts, and standing with our communities.
democraticleader.house.gov/shareyourstory
Share your story.
Your story helps @housedemocrats.bsky.social fight for you.
We are introducing bills, fighting in the courts, and standing with our communities.
democraticleader.house.gov/shareyourstory
February 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Have President Trump and Elon Musk's recent firings impacted you or your neighbor?
Share your story.
Your story helps @housedemocrats.bsky.social fight for you.
We are introducing bills, fighting in the courts, and standing with our communities.
democraticleader.house.gov/shareyourstory
Share your story.
Your story helps @housedemocrats.bsky.social fight for you.
We are introducing bills, fighting in the courts, and standing with our communities.
democraticleader.house.gov/shareyourstory
Comb Sisters – unwed women – flourished during the heyday of China's industrial silk production (up until 1930s when it collapsed), because they could earn their living indepedently... without becoming servants or forcibly marry, as they had to after.
#architecture #cohousing #women #feminism
#architecture #cohousing #women #feminism
Comb Sisters
Unwed women in China's Canton Delta found autonomy and sisterhood in gupouks, communal homes that emerged in tandem with the industrialization of silk-making.
placesjournal.org
February 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Comb Sisters – unwed women – flourished during the heyday of China's industrial silk production (up until 1930s when it collapsed), because they could earn their living indepedently... without becoming servants or forcibly marry, as they had to after.
#architecture #cohousing #women #feminism
#architecture #cohousing #women #feminism
Interview with one of the founders of #Anonymous on its history. It started in... Boston, of course!
(I was searching to see if they released any statements based on our current political situation. Found only something that seems fake.)
(I was searching to see if they released any statements based on our current political situation. Found only something that seems fake.)
I Was There When Anonymous Really Started
YouTube video by Cybernews
youtu.be
February 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Interview with one of the founders of #Anonymous on its history. It started in... Boston, of course!
(I was searching to see if they released any statements based on our current political situation. Found only something that seems fake.)
(I was searching to see if they released any statements based on our current political situation. Found only something that seems fake.)
I deleted the Google maps app when I heard that they're going through re-label the Gulf of Mexico and have been using maps in comment instead.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Google Maps blocks Gulf of America reviews after rename criticism
It controversially updated the Gulf's name for US users after President Trump ordered it to be changed.
www.bbc.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I deleted the Google maps app when I heard that they're going through re-label the Gulf of Mexico and have been using maps in comment instead.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Honestly, I'm not sure this is the best platform for image-based work or people, but willing to give it a try since Big Tech 👎.
Anyway, I got snowshoes for the first time in my life recently because I live next to a landscape packed with snow. My lunchtime walk:
www.flickr.com/photos/ioana...
Anyway, I got snowshoes for the first time in my life recently because I live next to a landscape packed with snow. My lunchtime walk:
www.flickr.com/photos/ioana...
IOANA urma has shared 10 photos with you!
www.flickr.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Honestly, I'm not sure this is the best platform for image-based work or people, but willing to give it a try since Big Tech 👎.
Anyway, I got snowshoes for the first time in my life recently because I live next to a landscape packed with snow. My lunchtime walk:
www.flickr.com/photos/ioana...
Anyway, I got snowshoes for the first time in my life recently because I live next to a landscape packed with snow. My lunchtime walk:
www.flickr.com/photos/ioana...
I've updated my website recently (ioanacolor.com) to reflect on my interests & goals, which unite my art + graphic work with my architecture + planning experience.
...though putting up all my sample projects might take a year 😂.
...though putting up all my sample projects might take a year 😂.
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I've updated my website recently (ioanacolor.com) to reflect on my interests & goals, which unite my art + graphic work with my architecture + planning experience.
...though putting up all my sample projects might take a year 😂.
...though putting up all my sample projects might take a year 😂.