Architect (TUM, Munich/ UACEG, Sofia, 2015), PhD (University of Barcelona, Department of History and Theory of Art), researcher at ELISAVA Research (Design for City Making) and associated professor at the Undergraduate Degree in Design and Innovation and the Master of Ephemeral Architecture and Temporary Spaces (MEATS), ELISAVA.

In her professional career, since 2012 she has collaborated in several architectural offices among which stands out the active collaboration with Queralt Suau studio, where she has carried out projects that address heterogeneous architecture formats, ranging over stage and exhibition spaces and interventions in public space.

Her work area is built on the critical transaction between politics, space and intersubjectivity and in her PhD investigation she explores the idea of Architecture of Action or the socio-spatial practices of critical intervention in the hypermodern city. Since April 2018, she has been part of the ELISAVA Research team, where she is currently developing projects that deal with ephemeral architecture, operative mapping and social cohesion. She has been visiting professor and guest lecturer at universities worldwide and she has published both specialized artciles and book chapters, mainly addressing expanded design strategies based on transformative urbanism, collaborative spaces and temporary interventions in public space.

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