Zita Floret Date of birth: April 28th 1987 Nationality: French-Austrian Mäkelänkatu 23 B 14 00550 Helsinki FINLAND zita.floret@wanadoo.fr +358 (0)401965020 http://zitarchitecture.tumblr.com/
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Architecture/Teaching/Entrepreneurship Esa Ruskeepää Architects Helsinki, 10.2016-05.2017, Architectural assistant (full time): Co-worked on the first phase of library competiton for Jena, Germany. Co-worked on a concept book entitled Campus Hellwinkel Konzept. Assisant in the design development of Campus Hellwinkel (kita, Mensa und Funktionsräume Aktivspielplatz) in Wolffsburg Germany. Search and preparation for architecture competitions in Germany and Switzerland.
Aalto University _January-May 2017 teaching assistant (part time): Mentoring a team of six students from different disciplines in Sustainable Global Technologies (SGT) course, on the subject of sustainable sanitation and entrepreneurship as a path to prosperity in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. _Lecturing and mentoring occasionally, between 2014 and 2016, for SGT and Creative Teamwork courses.
Urbantransitioners Ry Co-founder and Chairperson, 2017 Creative Collective for sustainable solutions to urbanisation issues: community facilitation, cooperation, research, and entrepreneurship. www.urbantransitioners.com
Social Enterprise for Sustainable Sanitation and Agriculture Piloting for the foundation of a social enterprise in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania (2017-). www.facebook.com/sanitationenterpriseDSM/
Global Dry Toilet Association of Finland Finland, 2014-2016 _2013: Application to the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a three year development project entitled: Sanitation improvement and social enterprise in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Positive answer, December 2013. _2014-2016: Project coordinator (part time) of Sanitation improvement and social enterprise in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania project. Tasks ranged from project coordiantion, architectural planning and design with community, construction supervision of community toilets, facilitation of trainings to monitoring and evaluation as well as activity planning and budgeting.
Unbuilt Helsinki October to December 2012. Model maker and researcher of Eliel Saarinen’s unbuilt Parliament of Finland. The project was done in collaboration with Loiman Kivi, for the Museum of Finnish Architecture’s exhibition Unbuilt Helsinki curated by Åbäke and Nene Tsuboi, and produced by Willem Heefer.
What_Architecture @ London, England, 10.2010-02.2011. Architectural Assistant, Part I.
Floret-Scheide architecte @ Paris, France, 2008, 2009. Architectural Assistant.
EDUCATION M.Sc. in Architecture with degree Program in Creative sustainability Aalto University School of Arts Design and Architecture, Finland, September 2012 to December 2015. _Major in Building design and Minor in Creative sustainability: wood construction, urban renewal, multidisciplinary group work, facilitation, system’s thinking. _Thesis work with Prof. Mikko Heikkinen and adviser Architect Saija Hollmén entitled, Architecture meets Sanitation - Intervening in community-led sanitation improvements in an informal settlement of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Keywords: participation in architecture / spatial agency / community-led sanitation improvement / ecological sanitation / informal settlements / wicked problems / performance architecture / holistic planning approach
Inex sustainability challenge 2011 TU Wien, Austria. Transdisciplinary and inter-university master’s level course on sustainable development.
INDEPENDENT WORK & OTHER SKILLS _Maison de T.: renovation and extension of single family house in Normandy. Leading architect, initial design to working drawings, France (ongoing). _Aalto Wit (World in Transition) Lab: Member since 2016 (www.witlab.fi) _Translations from French to English and German to French, on sustainable architecture, for the European project www. constructiondurable.org, (2013) _Rugby coaching: 15’s and 7’s rugby (2012-13) _National team player for Austria 7’s Rugby (2008-14)
PRIZE / PUBLICATION / EXHIBITION _ Climate Launchpad 3rd place at Finnish finals with Urbantransitioners, 06.2017 _„Tao of Sustainability - A conference and exhibition on sustainable design“ 3rd place, with Pee, Poop and architecture: working with a community on scalable sanitation solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2015. _Article in MD Mag: Interior/Design/Architecture, Hochschulen, Young Talents, p. 80, 3.2015 _ Photo exhibition: Between Sky and Earth at AMF Gallery, Helsinki, 2016
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
LANGUAGES
TU Wien, October 2005 to November 2010. _Bachelor works: 1) RAGE, building theory and design studio, with Univ.Ass. Dipl.-Ing. Harald Trapp on the theme, waste infrastructure. 2) The lizard, a Karo Batak wall connection in comparative history of architecture withProf. Lehner Erich and Prof. Rieger-Jandl Andrea.
Arkinen Suomi Français: mother tongue Deutsch: mother tongue English: excellent
A Levels Baccalauréat général (ES), at Lycée International de Sèvres, June 2005, France.
PROGRAMS Autocad, Vectorworks, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Sketchup, Office, Model making, Photo (amateur)