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.

Georgia Manousogiannaki is an architect and researcher. She is a member of URBANA where she cooperates in projects of participatory and inclusive urban design. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Crete (TUC) and holds a Master's in International Cooperation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture from the International University of Catalonia (UIC). Since 2016 she has been a scientific associate at the Transformable Intelligent Environments Laboratory of the Technical University of Crete (TUC TIE Lab), with a focus on the fields of Architecture-Education-Technology. She is also interested in natural building and has participated in and organized natural building workshops in Greece and abroad, mainly focusing on construction techniques with earth and wood.

Maritina Vlachaki is an anthropologist and researcher at URBANA. She studied in the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and the Department of Anthropology at University College London. She is now a Master’s student at the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program (MA) “Gender, Society, Politics” of Panteion University. Maritina has conducted participant observation and interviews with children and adults in Greece and Albania. Her most recent position was at the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona, where she conducted cross-cultural research as part of an interdisciplinary team for a year. Her academic interests include community, identity politics, participatory urban planning, and feminist research methods.