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All Miljena does revolves around Space. Various projects - theatre plays, performances, movies, music videos, corporate events, theoretical studies, spatial interventions and installations, photography, exhibition design, etc. As an experiential designer and an entertainment industry professional, she connects fields of set design and (creative) production. She is vice president of “Scenatoria” - Organisation that deals with officially protected, in reality abandoned and neglected built heritage through “staging” arts in those spaces and education about these fields - walks, publications, workshops, etc. This sparked curiosity about mixed forms - performance with video projections, VR and MR in site-specific productions. Her particular interest and experience is in production of cultural events and site-specific spatial interventions in urban and heritage locations, and in the topics like presentation of space and space as context of presentation, mutual influence of people, space and stories, connecting past and present through cultural activities, historical locations / heritage activation and interpretation, improvement and interpretation of city through art in public / open spaces, and related; She enjoys working manually and exploring materials, finding new and unexpected uses for already existing objects. She considers continues education crucial and often participates in conferences, talks, exhibitions, etc. as author, speaker, participant or organiser.

The liminal space of the ground floor / covered parking / warehouse / terrace .. semi-private and semi-public at the same time, accessible to views but also separated from the street by a fence in all Greek tourist places is a special typology that haunts me every summer. Designed utilitarianly as a place for the caravans of numerous tourists during their limited "stay in paradise", over time it was appropriated by a more domestic population - owners of apartments (which are rented out to tourists), workers in the surrounding hotels and guards of the given complexes. The vernacularity and adhocism of those spaces, along with the simultaneous undeniable need for aestheticization and beautification, testifies to the need to make the place where people stay, at least for a while, personal, and to connect the artistry of the place and the identity of its user. At the same time, conditioning by the weather - the sea and the sun "wash and consume" everything - including colors and materials, as well as pragmatism and established procedures - washing the sand from the fountain, for example, dictates the quality of the objects that will be brought and used, and which will thus form the space. Some invincible transience and seasonality is emitted from all those spaces, guardians of shade and shadow, thus turning them into poetic images of the passage of time, the simplicity of small pleasures, the relationship between people and the space they shape and use.