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Sharon Yavo Ayalon

(United States/Israel)

Sharon Yavo Ayalon is an architect, artist, curator, and researcher. She currently teaches at Columbia GSAPP and serves as a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell Tech. Her research focuses on visualizations and simulations to achieve social impact in planning. Currently, she has mapped NYC social distancing stories through interactive maps that aggregate people’s stories about living in the city during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lola Ben Alon

United States

Lola Ben-Alon, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP, where she directs the Natural Materials Lab and the Building Science and Technology curriculum. She specializes in natural earth- and bio-based building materials and construction methods. At the Technion, Ben-Alon co-founded art.espionage. She also served as a curator and content developer at the Madatech.  She serves on the board of ACSA’s Technology | Architecture + Design, and Elsevier’s Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

Christina Ciardullo

SEArch+

Greece / United States

Christina Ciardullo (AIA) is a Senior Architect, partner and founder of the space architecture firm SEArch+ and PhD Researcher at the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture. With an undergraduate background in astronomy and philosophy, and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, Christina bridges a career between practice and research at the intersection of the natural sciences and the built environment, designing for a sustainable future for Earth and Space.

Damiano Cerrone

SPIN Unit

Estonia / Finland

Damiano Cerrone is co-founder of SPIN Unit, a research and innovation practice based in Tallinn with an open lab in Helsinki. At SPIN, he works on the lab’s three core initiatives, making data meaningful, innovating interactions, and advancing urban education. Cerrone also has an expert role at TalTech FinEst Center for Smart Cities. Cerrone focused his academic research on studying the relationship between urban biodiversity and autoimmune diseases in early childhood and urban analytics.

Beatriz Colomina

United States

Beatriz Colomina is the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture and the co-director of the Media and Modernity program at Princeton University. She writes and curates on questions of design, art, sexuality and media.  She has curated a number of exhibitions and has written several books. In 2016 she was co-curator of the 3^rd Istanbul Design Biennial. Her latest books are X-Ray Architecture (Lars Muller, 2019) and Radical Pedagogies (MIT, 2022).

Maria Derlõš

Lasnaidee / Linnalabor

Estonia

Maria Derlõs is a community activist in Lasnamäe, the largest housing estate in Estonia. She is the leader of Lasnaidee, a non-profit organisation that unites local enthusiasts to develop their own neighbourhood through citizen participation. She stands in community activism with one leg and is engaged in local policy and planning with the other. Maria is also a board member and project manager in Estonian Urban Lab  where she deals with the popularization of urban education, the promotion of citizen participation in urban planning, and the enhancement of inclusive city development.

Allison Dring

Made of Air

Germany

Made of Air is a carbon-negative, climate-positive materials company, transforming waste biomass into high-value, carbon negative, thermoplastic materials for industrial use. Its mission is to reverse climate change.

Made of Air’s materials replace fossil materials and other composites in manufactured products. Composed of carbon sequestered from the atmosphere, the materials permanently remove CO2 and are thermoformed by standard industrial processes to meet multiple building and consumer product applications.

Alexandre Dubor

Spain / France

Alexandre Dubor is a researcher currently working at IAAC as Head of the fabrication team. Trained as architect and engineer , he has experience in architectural offices , software development , research and teaching . Since 2012, he has been working at IAAC where he now leads the AAG fabrication team, directs the postgraduate in 3D Printing Architecture and directs the Master in Robotics and Advanced Construction. He is investigating how new advances in material, digital fabrication and computational design could lead to a better construction ecosystem, and toward a more efficient, affordable, sustainable and personalized built environment.

Cathryn Dwyre

pneumastudio

United States

Cathryn Dwyre is Adjunct Associate Professor at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture and a faculty member at the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology at Industry City in Brooklyn. She received a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in philosophy and geology from Colgate University, and is a member of the interdisciplinary research group Inclusive Ecologies at Pratt Institute that brings together faculty from various schools and departments to develop projects and grant proposals that explore the intersection of landscape, ecology and public space.

Chiara Farinea

Italy

Chiara Farinea, PhD is an Italian architect and urban planner. Her research is at the intersection between design, biology, digital technologies, and art and focuses on *Design for Living Systems,’ looking at new ways of planning, designing, and fabricating cities that foster multispecies collaborations and mutualistic attitudes. She works currently in the AAG, where she is in charge of research projects and faculty in master courses.

Pedro Gadanho

Spain

Pedro Gadanho is an architect, curator, and writer. As 2020 Loeb Fellow from Harvard University, he was a curator of contemporary architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Between 2015 and 2019, he was the founding Director of MAAT in Lisbon, where he initiated more than 50 exhibition projects, curating new commissions, as well as major interdisciplinary shows and publications. He has edited the BEYOND bookazine, the Shrapnel Contemporary blog, and contributes regularly to international publications. His latest book is Climax Change! How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency (ACTAR, 2022).

Mitchell Joachim

Terreform ONE

United States

Mitchell Joachim, PhD is Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and Associate Professor of Practice at NYU. Formerly, he was an architect at the offices of Frank Gehry and I.M. Pei. He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and fellowships with TED, Moshe Safdie, and the Martin Society for Sustainability at MIT. He was chosen by Wired magazine for “The Smart List” and selected by Rolling Stone for “The 100 People Who Are Changing America.” His design work has been exhibited at MoMA and the Venice Biennale.

Robert Charles Johnson

Studio Ficta

United Kingdom

Robert Johnson is a British designer and founder of Studio Ficta, a creative start-up fusing film, interactive design, and research across anthropological, ecological, and social contexts. Johnson’s projects create alternative narratives using fictional writing as a design research tool; his stories highlight issues of social attitudes towards labour, materials, and waste in the circular economy. Using a specific approach to researching holistic systems he explores cross-collaborative methods for human innovation from unexpected corners of society. In 2020, his project Fatconomy presented fat as a valuable resource in urban society, illustrating the potential of discarded fats for the economy, material innovation and urban planning.

Raul Järg

Estonian Centre for Architecture

Raul Järg is the Chairman of the Estonian Centre for Architecture. He graduated in 2001 from Estonian Academy of Arts architecture and urban planning department, did his internship at the Parkin Architects in Toronto, Canada from 2005 to 2007, was the City Architect of Rakvere in Estonia from 2008 to 2012 and worked in Ühinenud Arhitektid office in Tallinn.

Annika Kaldoja

Studio Aine

Estonia

Annika Kaldoja is a designer and an interior architect, having experience in various design disciplines and working in both product and spatial design. She works at Studio Aine a materials design and development studio based in Tallinn, Estonia, whose research is focused on environmentally sensitive materials, materials awareness, and cross-domain networking. Their aim is to always work with the local context, craftsmanship and materials design with a holistic approach to design possibilities.

Lydia Kallipoliti

Greece / United States

Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer and scholar and an Assistant Professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York. She holds a Diploma in Architecture and Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, an SMArchS in design and building technology from M.I.T, as well as a Master of Arts and a PhD from Princeton University. She is the author of The Architecture of Closed Worlds (2018).

Siim Karro

Myceen

Estonia

Designer and material researcher Siim Karro is the co-founder of Myceen. In his practice, Siim is interested in exploring ways to transform the human–space relationship into a more sensuous one. Siim believes that through the use of nature’s intelligence and continuous research enhanced by design, it is possible to change the tangible environment more naturally and such that it is perceptually stimulating.

Sofia Krimizi

ksestudio

Greece

Sofia Krimizi is a Greek architect and a Fulbright scholar.  Sofia has worked for various offices including Steven Holl Architects in New York, Ateliers Jean Nouvel in Paris, and Grafeio 405 Aris Zambikos in Athens before founding ksestudio with Kyriakos Kyriakou. She has taught design studios and research seminars at Pratt Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, the Cooper Union, Cornell University, the Bartlett, and KU Leuven. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Architectural Association.

Epp Lankots

Estonia

Epp Lankots is an architectural historian and senior research fellow in Estonian Academy of Arts. Her research interests include architecture and material culture under socialism and historiography of modern architecture. She has written on the social differentiation in the Soviet domestic sphere, the mingling of avant-garde and historiographic practices in Soviet architectural historiography. Her present research centers around the ideas of the socialist “leisure society” and how they were mediated into everyday environment during the 1960s and the 1970s. She is the co-editor and co-curator of the award-winning book and the exhibition Leisure Spaces: Holidays and Architecture in 20th century Estonia (Estonian Museum of Architecture, 2020).

Shaun McCallum

United Kingdom

Shaun McCallum is a Scottish architectural designer and digital artist whose work investigates the impact of new technologies upon socio-political cultures through ephemeral architectural objects and installations.His projects which explore the accessibility and integration of digital technologies within existing physical structures have received a variety of awards and have been published internationally. As a researcher, Shaun has served as a travel fellow in China investigating the interplay of mystical historical ruins juxtaposed with new consumer lead architectural objects and under occupied mega cities.

Areti Markopoulou

Greece / Spain

Areti Markopoulu, Phd is a Greek architect, researcher and urban technologist working at the intersection between architecture and digital technologies. She is the Academic Director at IAAC in Barcelona, and she leads the Advanced Architecture Group, a multidisciplinary research group exploring how design and science can positively impact and transform the present and future of our built environment.

Philip Maughan

Black Almanac

United Kingdom / Germany

Philip Maughan is a writer and researcher based between London and Berlin.

Jonathan Minchin

United Kingdom / Spain

Jonathan Minchin is a multidisciplinary architectural designer and maker, working between the built environment, digital fabrication with a particular focus on rural contexts. He founded the Green Fab Lab at Valldaura Labs, IAAC Campus in Barcelona in 2013 and is currently the Project Manager of an EU Horizon 2020 program that develops tools for Climate Resilient Agriculture; (ROMI) Robotics for Microfarms.

Kärt Ojavee

Studio Aine

Estonia

Kärt Ojavee is an artist, designer, and lecturer. Her work is focused on future concepts of textiles and materials. She experiments with new technologies and traditional textile fabricating techniques, testing the borders of both disciplines.

Evangelos Pantazis

Topotheque

Greece

Evangelos Pantazis is an architect-engineer and founding partner of Topotheque Design Research Studio. His work focuses on complex geometric modelling across different design scales and the development of generative design strategies in conjunction with data driven analysis.

Iasonas Pantazis

Topotheque

Greece

Iasonas Pantazis is an architect and founding partner of Topotheque Design Research Studio. He is the Director of the Digital Fabrication Laboratory of Ioannina and has taught Architectural Technology as a Lecturer at the Polytechnic School of the University of Ioannina, the University of Patras, and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

Claudia Pasquero

ecoLogicStudio

United Kingdom / Austria

Claudia Pasquero is an architect, curator, author and educator; her work and research operates at the intersection of biology, computation and design. She is co-founder of ecoLogicStudio in London, Landscape Architecture Professor at Innsbruck University and Associated Professor at the Bartlett UCL.

Chris Perry

pneumastudio

United States

Chris Perry is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of Architecture where he oversees the school’s professional and research graduate programs. He is also Director of the Master of Science in Architecture program at the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology at Industry City in Brooklyn. Prior to Rensselaer, Perry was the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Architecture and held an endowed professorship at Rice University’s School of Architecture. He has also taught at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, the University of Toronto, the Architectural Association in London, RMIT in Melbourne, Pratt Institute, Barnard College, and Parsons School of Design. He received a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, for which he also received an Honor Award for Excellence in Design, and a B.A. in philosophy from Colgate University. Prior to becoming a full-time faculty member at Rensselaer, Perry was a Presidential Fellow in MIT’s doctoral program in architectural history, theory, and criticism.

Sille Pihlak

PART

Estonia

Dr. Sille Pihlak is practicing architect, researcher, tutor, and co-founder of the algorithmic timber architecture research group at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Sille completed her masters in the University of Applied Arts Vienna and practiced as design architect at Morphosis Architects, Los Angeles and Coophimmelb(l)au, Vienna. In 2020, Sille defended her doctoral degree on methodological development of somatic modularity for algorithmic timber architecture.

Andrea Provenzano

Black Almanac

Italy / Norway

Andrea Provenzano is an Italian visual engineer living in the arctic region of Finnmark.

Kaidi Põldoja

Estonia

Kaidi Põldoja is an architect and urban planner who heads the Spatial Planning Competence Centre of the Strategic Management Office of the City of Tallinn. The Spatial Planning Competence Centre is an in-house architecture and urban planning practice of the City of Tallinn that drafts comprehensive plans and spatial visions for the city of Tallinn, designs public space, runs architecture competitions, pushes Tallinn towards becoming a more pedestrian-friendly human-scale city, aims to expand cycling opportunities in Tallinn as well as activates the streetscape of Tallinn with contemporary urban art.

Philippe Rahm

Philippe Rahm Architectes

Switzerland / France

Philippe Rahm is a swiss architect, principal in the office of “Philippe Rahm architectes”, based in Paris, France. His work, which extends the field of architecture from the physiological to the meteorological, has received an international audience in the context of sustainability. He is a tenured associate professor at the National Superior School of Architecture in Versailles, France (ENSA-V).

Sonia Ralston

United States

Sonia Ralston is a Master of Landscape Architecture candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Broadly, her interests lie in how landscape and architecture intersect with political geography, the history of technology, and social movements. Her current projects focus on understanding how modernity and political regimes historically attempted to establish control over landscapes using scientific research campuses.

Ivan Sergejev

Estonia

Ivan Sergejev is an architect, Fulbright scholar and expert on urban rejuvenation, currently coordinating the development of Estonia’s just transition plan at the Republic of Estonia Ministry of Finance.

Cristian Rizzuti

Italy / Spain

is an interactive media artist working in Barcelona and Rome. Always inspired by science and mathematics, Cristian has focused his personal investigation on the role of human perception and the definition of synesthetic spaces and emotional sounds connected to the body. Being inspired by digital arts, live media and light, Cristian’s works can be described as light sculpture installations.

Evelyn Steiner

Switzerland

Evelyn Steiner is an architect and art historian.  After completing her master’s degree, she worked from 2012 to 2014 at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt. From 2014 to 2016 she worked as a curator at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, where she was responsible for several exhibition projects and catalogues. In 2021 she curated the Salon Suisse at the Venice Architecture Biennale on behalf of Pro Helvetia. Today she is a curator at the Zentrum Architektur Zürich.

Ander Sõõrumaa

OCCO

Estonia

Ander Sõõrumaa is the Co-Founder and CEO of OCCO, a DesignTech company on a mission to digitalize the furniture industry. Since its inception in 2016, Ander has led OCCO´s digital transformation journey from a turnkey furnishing company into an AI-powered platform for interior architects, which helps the professionals save valuable time on product search and project management. Ander is responsible for the company’s global expansion strategy, business development, product and technology. Today, OCCO has become one of the fastest-growing B2B startups expanding across Europe, with headquarters in Tallinn and Amsterdam.

Johan Tali

Estonia

Johan Tali is an architect, doctoral student, founding member of Molumba, curator of the Open Lectures series in the Estonian Academy of Arts, member of the Unfinished City research group and supervisor of the professional studio.

Kearon Roy Taylor

Canada

Kearon Roy Taylor is lecturer at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, & Design at the University of Toronto, where he received his Master of Architecture with the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Student Medal. He received his Honours Bachelor of Arts from McMaster School of the Arts, where he co-founded the media arts platform HAVN. His research interests lie in the political economy of architecture and urbanism as it relates to equity and emerging socio-technical formations.

Andreas Theodoridis

UNited Atmospheres

Greece / United States

Andreas Theodoridis, Ph.D, is a practicing architect-engineer and environmental technologist with a  and a research collaborator at the Center for Architecture Ecosystems -CEA- at Yale University. His research is inherently interdisciplinary, merging twenty-five years of experience in building construction and fabrication with applied research on building systems and environmental initiatives on an urban scale. Theodoridis is the founder of UNited Atmospheres, an experimental design practice, and consultancy based between New York and Athens.

Siim Tuksam

PART

Estonia

Dr. Siim Tuksam is a practicing architect, researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) faculty of architecture, and co-founder of PART. He also co-founded the algorithmic timber architecture research group and the Timber Architecture Competence Centre PAKK.  He has been developing his practice through exhibitions, installations, writings, and architectural projects.  At PART, he’s been devoted to developing algorithmic tools for the design and delivery of prefabricated structures and the critical discourse of digital architecture.

Sofia Vyzoviti

Sofia Vyzoviti is an architect and academic. She received her PhD in design theory and methodology at Delft University of Technology in 2005. Her research focuses on Design Tool Development, the Modeling of Spatial Interaction and Form Generation Processes. In addition to architecture and urban design she produces architectural prototypes and temporary installations. Her goal is to enhance community cohesion and support collective creativity employing design principles from an interdisciplinary field between architecture, urban sociology, anthropology, and artificial intelligence. Sophia is Associate Professor in Architectural Design at the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece, and previously taught at the University of Cyprus, National University of Singapore, and Delft University of Technology. Her publications include three books on form-generation methods for architecture and product design: Soft Shells, Supersurfaces, and the best-selling Folding Architecture released by BIS Publishers Amsterdam.