Biographies workshop leaders 27 26 #1 Patricia Guaita & Raffael Baur Patricia Guaita and Raffael Baur co-initiated several research and teaching projects that explore the relationship of craft and fabrication to space, tectonics and the human being. They met at the EPFL in 2010 where their common interests in architectural education led them to develop a pedagogy of making, tested and refined through several project collaborations, notably the interdisciplinary research project A Prototype Pavilion in Textile Reinforced Concrete, EPFL (since 2019) and the Open City Research Platform, EPFL and PUCV, Valparaiso (2013-19). From 2020-22 they were Invited Professors at the HEIA Fribourg where they led the design studio Construction Cycles. Patricia and Raffael have their own professional practices in Lausanne and Zürich, with an upcoming project collaboration. Workshop: Drawing Research Week #2 Julian Brües & Wassily Walter Julian Brües is an architect, teacher and editor in Vienna. He worked for offices such as Lederer Ragnasdottir and Furrer Jud. Since March 2020 he has been working as a research assistant at the department of Raum und Gestalt at TU Graz. In 2020, he received the Start Scholarship with which he founded ‘Diskursiv’, an association for architectural research. Where he co-directed the book “Models”. Wassily Walter is an architect and teacher between Berlin and Vienna. From 2019, he has been working for Kuehn Malvezzi where he was involved in several cultural projects across Europe such as the interreligious initiative of House of One, the conversion of Batiment d‘Art Contemporain or the extension of Komische Oper. Since 2021 he teaches with Wilfried Kuehn and Pier Paolo Tamburelli at TU Vienna. Workshop: What we can learn from Maison Martin Margiela #3 Eulàlia Gomez-Escoda & Emma O’Connell Prof. Eulalia Gomez-Escoda is an architect and PhD in Urbanism. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the Barcelona School of Architecture ETSAB-UPC Barcelona Tech. Since 2021, she is Deputy Director of International Relations at ETSAB-UPC Barcelona Tech. She is also Design Critic at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (fall 2019), invited professor at international schools such as the School of Architecture of KU Leuven, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts KADK, the German University in Cairo, the Universidad Mayor at Santiago de Chile and the Graduate School of Planning and Preservation GSAPP at Columbia University. Postdoc Researcher at LUB, Barcelona Urbanism Laboratory. Independent professional activity and collaborations with firms developing public projects of Architecture, Urbanism, Public Space and Landscape. Emma O’Connell is an architect from the south of Italy based in Barcelona. She graduated from Barcelona’s Polytechnic University with a thesis on the role of outdoor terraces in Barcelona and Milan. Currently, she collaborates with BAU Architecture and Urbanism and develops her research on informal food distribution systems in Europe. Her research has been recently published in indexed journals. Workshop: When food storms the squares augmentation, which refers to near-body products that enhance human abilities through the development of technological improvements as an integral part of the human body. She aims to develop a research-based framework for the development of human augmentation products that strengthen the user’s individual and contextual identity through social empowerment while respecting ethical boundaries and sociocultural values. Product semiotics, which poses that products can communicate additional meaning through their appearance, therefore plays an imperative role within her research. Workshop: Design Against Taboo (DAT): new insights into the mean-making process of wearable design exploration #7 Davide Cauciello & Octavio Pineiro Aramburu Davide Cauciello (1992) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta (ULB) with a thesis on the contradictions between income levels and quality of life in rural, peripheral and urban areas of the Brussels metropolitan region. As a member of Latitude Platform and in the framework of several research projects, he has worked at the organisation of participatory workshops involving a plurality of actors, both institutional and associative. Octavio Pineiro Aramburu (1993) is a graduated architect from the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta (ULB). As a collaborator within Latitude Platform, he worked on the researches Brusseau and Cities of Making by producing analytical maps, conducting on-field interviews, preparing exhibitions and organizing coanalysis and co-construction workshops with universities, institutions and citizens. Workshop: Grijze materie #8 Celeste Tellarini Celeste Tellarini is an architect, urban designer and documenter based in Brussels. Her interest lies on a non-conforming perception of the realm, far from labels, binary oppositions and strict definitions. In 2020 she completed her studies in Politecnico di Milano (IT) and Manchester School of Architecture (UK) and since 2019 Celeste is part of the architecture office Dogma (BE). In 2021 she established a multitude: an open research and design practice spanning from discipline to discipline. In 2022 Celeste collaborated with the University of Melbourne, Politecnico di Milano and ULiege. Since 2018 Celeste meticulously documents ultra-ordinariness through microelements and Details of superordinary places: ongoing photographic series shared daily over social media. Workshop: Brutal and banal with a hint of floral #9 Susie Brand-de Groot Susie Brand-de Groot has now been a teacher in Design Visualization Techniques for over 20 years at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology. Over the years she developed herself to be an independent teacher and design coach, focusing on the visualization part of design processes. Last years she broadens her knowledge in the field of the meaning of form in designs. With her students she researches the influence of individual perception on how we experience form and she researches what body posture has to do with our perception of form. Beside at TU Delft Susie has worked as a teacher for multiple educational institutions, ranging from retail and mechanical engineering students in The Netherlands to interior & design students in Belgium, and has held workshops in Belgium, Sweden and Italy. As a young Interior Architect Susie specialized in theatre design. Nowadays still, her ambition is to reinforce the vision of a director through design. She loves working #4 Dewi Brunet & Gwenaël Prost Dewi Brunet is an artist specialized in folding, as a technique, as an art, as a field of research. More than 15 years of practice in folding led him to gain a strong expertise in origami, pleating and crumpling techniques. His work currently focuses on the link between ecology and technology through robotic folded creations. Gwenaël Prost is a designer, based in Rennes. His practice evolve between experimentation with materials and transmission. The fold never ceases to fascinate him, bringing him into the inexhaustible field of relations between art and science. Dewi and Gwen co-founded in 2021, with Théo Philippot, “Diatom”, a studio focused on folded creation for performing arts and the event industry. Workshop: Pattern and chaos #5 Hussein Shikha & Sadrie Alves Hussein Shikha and Sadrie Alves are collaborators working on the ongoing project ‘Tales of Symbologies’. They have shared their research in various contexts and workshops such as Open Design Course and Extra City. Hussein Shikha is a multidisciplinary artist, graphic designer, writer, and researcher. He was born and raised in Iraq and moved to Antwerp in 2009. He graduated with an MA in visual arts from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. His work deals with the preservation, translation, and digitization of the visual culture from his intersectional experience as an Iraqi-Belgian. Currently, he is doing research on the erasure of handmade Iraqi tapestries and its idea of ‘beauty’ that relates to Islamic art, as a way to de-modernize his creative practices. Sadrie Alves is a Belgian Brazilian multidisciplinary artist, illustrator and performer currently living in Brussels. The core of her artistic practice departs from drawing as a symbolic action and as a catalyst for tender narratives and collaboration. She sees drawing as writing as singing as crafting. Her work is inspired by oral histories, myths, and the beings that inhabit them. Workshop: Tales of Symbologies: Subjective Mapping. Centering traditions and philosophies associated with tapestries #6 Beste Ozcan & Muriel De Boeck Beste Ozcan works at the nexus of design, technology and science. She is a postdoc research fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy (ISTC-CNR) working on interactive smart devices. She is the founder of “Transitional Wearable Companions (TWCs)” concept, brand, and its first applied award-winning prototype called “PlusMe”, which is a particular type of wearable social companion for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and “IM-TWIN system” concept, which is an AI-based system for smart therapy of children with ASD. She is also interested in developing other types of experimental smart devices to augment empathy and reduce the anxiety of humans. She is the author of the book “H+ design: time, space, human, machine”. Muriel De Boeck is a PhD student in Product Development at the University of Antwerp. Her research focuses on human
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