Dijana Vučinić is a practicing architect, researcher and founder of an interdisciplinary architectural practice DVARP with projects that range from urban design via design of public spaces, hotels and residential buildings to stage design. In her work she tends to introduce structures and spaces that reveal the process of critical thinking and sustainable solutions. Her work is based on research on post-transitional city narratives and interactive contemporary city ambience as well as urban and rural conditions in the developing rural areas at the Montenegrin coast and in the mountains. Vučinić is founder and program director of APSS Institute, a platform for architectural research and design thinking and development, whose most prominent initiative has been KotorAPSS Summer School established in the coastal town of Kotor, Montenegro. For many years KotorAPSS has focused on the RE-USE method and the work did as part of Institute’s work have resulted in the creation of many international projects. She was commissioner for Project Solana – Montenegrin pavilion at XV Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016 and co-curator and co-author of the exhibition Treasures in disguise – Montenegro Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia in 2014. Vučinić’s work has been recognized internationally, within networks of architects, designers and educators with whom she has been working closely on various projects. Her work was prized with numerous awards both at home and abroad. She was awarded Architectural Visionary of the year in SE Europe by Zavod Big in Ljubljana. Dijana Vučinić co-curated the exhibition Skirting the Center: Svetlana Kana Radević, On the Periphery of Postwar Architecture as part of XVIII La Biennale di Venezia in 2021. Dijana has led an urban research on Podgorica, Tirana and Skopje as partners to CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati for Manifesta Biennale 14 held in Priština in 2021.At the moment she is heading APSS REinFORCE programme within New Cross National Temporality Project that brings together cultural and academic institutions from seven European countries (Albania, Georgia, Germany, Montenegro, Portugal, Ukraine, and Spain) around the notion of “temporality” through architecture and urbanism. The program has been selected for Creative Europe funding until 2025.In 2023 she is selected a Guest Professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technolgy – Faculty of Architecture for the Wüstenrot Foundation.