Cinema Talk: Design as a tool for Mediation

Join the call with Lavinia Ghimbasan on her project mapping Transylvania and Banat’s wool ecosystem. We call in live with Lavinia Ghimbasan about her film and research-oriented project Back to Our Sheep mapping the current state of the wool ecosystem in Transylvania and Banat, Romania. We discuss design as a mediation tool between the forgotten, the archaic, the small-scale and the industrial and get to know how her project prototypes new forms of collaboration and production. Panelist: Pollyanna Moss (host) Lavinia Ghimbasan (conceptual designer and co-founder of Nalba Studio) Back to Our Sheep was directed by Nalba Studio and filmed and edited by Tudor Cioroiu, FormatFilm Studio. The documentry was developed in 2024 as part of Faber’s Design Signals Programme in Timișoara. The project was presented in 2025 at Alcova during Milan Design Week and at the Romanian Design Week. Currently, it is part of the Wool Ecologies exhibition at the Museum of Urban Civilisation in Brașov, Transylvania.