The Team

Eva Grigoriadou is the founding director of URBANA. She earned her Architecture degree from the Technical University of Crete (TUC) and later completed a postgraduate program in International Cooperation and Sustainable Emergency Architecture at the International University of Catalonia (UIC). Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate at the Technical University of Crete, where her research centers on gender-sensitive urban planning, inclusive urban design practices, and participatory methodologies. Eva has contributed to multiple European and national research projects, advancing innovative, sustainable and inclusive approaches to urban development.

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+.

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.