practice
Our mission is to take on projects that connect people to place, to each other, and to themselves through participatory design.
Our work is a varied constellation of projects and collaborations for more meaningful living. Resolutely on the street, we work locally. And we take lessons from our hyper-local work to apply to larger scale patterns of thinking and design.
Studioful Design was founded by Claudia Paraschiv in 2016 as a woman-owned, social enterprise engaged in architecture, community art, and neighborhood design.
Claudia graduated with her Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Southern California, and with her Masters in Architecture and Urbanism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has worked for XTEN Architecture and New Theme Architects in Los Angeles, and Butz+Klug Architects in Boston. Claudia was Artist in Residence in Four Corners, Dorchester 2015-16, and in Salem MA in 2017. She has taught at Wentworth Institute of Technology and the Boston Architectural College. Claudia is a registered architect in Massachusetts. License No. 50512.
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Studioful is driven by the pressing need to engage people to participate in the creation of their worlds as purposeful places of stewardship, democracy, social gathering, self-expression, and imagination.
Common Good - shifts around, but it is authentically derived from open conversation
Participatory Design - there are myriad ways to participate; we are interested in “creative self-expression” (The Dawn of Everything)
We prioritize inquiry. We try to create new ways of being in the world. We use the powerful tool of design to manifest our personal and collective values into beneficial built form. Through participatory design, we create purposeful architecture, art, and placemaking projects embedded in their local contexts that connect people to place, to each other, and to themselves.
Studioful Design brings the powerful practice of discovery through design to each collaboration for a joyful design process that leads to integrated works of art and architecture. Our projects are meaningful, resourceful, and beautiful.
Services
Architectural Design
Community Engagement
Construction Administration
Participatory Design
Public Art
Research + Visioning
contact
Studioful Design 2 Margin Street, Suite 202-A, Salem MA 01970 claudia@studiofuldesign.com