The Team

Eva Grigoriadou is founder of URBANA. She studied Architecture at the Technical University of Crete (2013) and later attended the ‘International Cooperation, Sustainable Emergency Architecture’ postgraduate program at the International University of Catalonia (2016). She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Architecture of the Technical University of Crete and her research focuses on the analysis of urban planning from a gender perspective, inclusive urban planning practices, and participatory methodologies. She has worked as a researcher in programs of the Municipality of Athens in collaboration with the Technical University of Crete, as well as in European research programs.

Pinelopi Alexiou is an anthropologist and researcher at URBANA. She has studied Social Anthropology (BSc, Panteion University), History and Philosophy of Science (BSc, NKUA) and Preventive Psychiatry (MSc, Medical School, NKUA). She’s now studying Creative Writing (MA, University of Western Macedonia) and Gender Studies (MA, Hellenic Open University). For many years now, she’s been a volunteer in various local programs (located in Athens, Greece) that raise awareness and provide education for disabilities. Moreover, she has conducted research in adults with mental illnesses, in the spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders, analyzing the need of a holistic healthcare model (including sociological, psychological and biological support for these adult psychiatric patients). Her academic interests focus on disabilities and the accessibility to public spaces through a gender aspect, the forms of inclusivity in certain communities as well as experimental ways of epistemological writing.

Ioulia Leventopoulou is an architect and researcher at URBANA. She studied Architecture at the Technical University of Crete (2018) and is currently a postgraduate student of the MSc Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Architecture, NTUA. She has worked with architectural firms and organisations in Athens and Copenhagen. Her research interests focus on the analysis of gender perspectives in urban design, participatory design processes and more generally the integration of a more inclusive perspective in the spaces we design and inhabit.

Evelina Faliagka is an architect and urban designer. She studied at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly (UTH) and then completed the 'Master Urban Design' (M.Sc.) at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin). Her work focuses on the perspective of care and the development of inclusive design scenarios that integrate all actors, human and non-human, who are traditionally excluded from the city. At URBANA she is actively involved in the design and implementation of participatory urban design projects. Her work has been exhibited at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, among others, and her texts have been published in Greek and international magazines such as ARCH+.