Curriculum Vitae: Doumpa Paraskevi (Vivian) Date of birth: Place of birth: Residence: Telephone: E-mail: Website: Blogs: Portfolio:
07/05/1986 Thessaloniki, Greece Daendelsstraat 1, 3531GA, Utrecht, The Netherlands 0031681338076 vivian.doumpa@gmail.com http://flavors.me/vivian_d http://re-urban-valaoritou.blogspot.nl http://monbijouxsalonique.blogspot.nl http://www.slideshare.net/VivianD/portfolio-vivian-doumpa
Professional Experience June 2014-present
Freelance Placemaker, Project Manager: PlacemakingPlus Peter Groenendaal (Amsterdam, NL, peter@placemakingplus.com) Research and Project Development and Management on Placemaking
January 2014present
Freelance Researcher: The Busking Project
August 2012present
Co-Founder, Project Manager: Creativity Platform – Non Profit Organization
December 2012July 2013 January 2011August 2012
Intern Editor, Research and Assistant: The Pop-Up City & Golfstromen, creative agency
Nick Broad (London, UK, & New York, USA, nick@thebuskingproject.com) Research into the licensing systems, urban policies and strategies related to artistic expression in public space (busking) and the effect that buskers have in the way people experience public space. (Thessaloniki, GR, info@creativityplatform.gr) Strategic Planning, Research Assistant, Funding Opportunities- Proposals, Event Planning Jeroen Beekmans & Joop de Boer (Amsterdam, NL, studio@golfstromen.nl)
Volunteer work- Consulting: “Think Tank” Group- in the cultural section at the City Hall of Thessaloniki, Deputy Mayor of Culture, Education and Tourism Spiros Pengas (Thessaloniki, GR)
March 2010 – June 2010
Cartographic Assistance and Support: “Katsanevaki Athena: Vlach-speaking and Greekspeaking songs in Northern Pindus mountain-range.” PhD Dissertation (School of Fine Arts, Music Studies Department, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 1998) (Freelance)
Education September 2011 – August 2012:
Master’s Degree in Human Geography in the field of Urban Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht (1 year Full-time), Grade: 3.38 out of 4 (Final GPA) (31/08/2012) Dissertation Thesis Title: “Music in Public Space: Changing Perception, Changing Urban Experience?”, Grade: 8,4/10
September 2005 – November 2010:
Diploma in Urban-Regional Planning and Development Engineering, School of Engineering Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (5 years Full-time), Grade: 7,80 out of 10, (“Very good”) (11/11/2010) Dissertation Thesis Title: “Re-urban Valaoritou: Scenario of Urban Regeneration in the Historical Center of Thessaloniki”, Grade: 9,88/10 Research Thesis Title: “Space and Culture Formation: Comparative Case-study of the Vlach-speaking People of Vlasti in Kozani and the Slav-speaking, Local People of Papayiannis in Florina”, Grade: 9,83/10
September 1998 – June 2004:
Unified Music High School of Thessaloniki, Greece, School Certificate Grade: 17 out of 20, (“Very good”) (30/06/2004)
Doumpa Paraskevi – CV May 2015