Team Group: RC2021 Speakers

Ramon Canal-Oliveras holds a PhD in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He has been a public manager and adviser to the City Council of Manresa and research coordinator at the Institute of Government and Public Policies. He has also worked as a policy consultant and as an associate professor at UAB. […]

Dr Brenda Parker is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Bioprocess Design at the Department of Biochemical Engineering, UCL and is Co-Director of Bio-ID.  Brenda holds an MEng and PhD in Biochemical Engineering. Her postdoctoral research was conducted as part of the Algal Biotechnology Consortium at the University of Cambridge, and she has worked on biomanufacturing […]

Marcos Cruz is an Architect and Professor of Innovative Environments at the Bartlett, UCL. His main research focuses on bio-integrated design in buildings. He runs Bio-ID with Dr Brenda Parker, a multidisciplinary research platform and Masters programme that investigates design that is driven by advances in bio-technology, computation, materials and fabrication. He was co-editor of […]

Daniel Christian Wahl works internationally as a consultant and educator in regenerative development, whole systems design, and transformative innovation. He holds degrees in biology (Univ. of Edinburgh), and holistic science (Schumacher College), and his 2006 doctoral thesis (Univ. of Dundee) was on Design for Human and Planetary Health. He was director of Findhorn College between […]

Skylar Tibbits is a designer and computer scientist whose research focuses on developing self-assembly and programmable materials within the built environment. Tibbits is the founder and co-director of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, and Associate Professor of Design Research in the Department of Architecture.   Tibbits has a professional degree in architecture and a minor in […]

Ana Coello de Llobet studied architecture at the University of Navarra and at the ETSAB of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, from which she graduated in 1999. Later, she completed a master’s degree in landscape architecture at Harvard University for which she obtained a grant from the Rafael del Pino Foundation. Before consolidating her professional […]

Elora Hardy is the Founder and Creative Director of IBUKU, where design begins with the principles of nature, employing the natural tendencies of bamboo, stone, water and topography to build over two hundred homes, hotels, schools, and work spaces. For over twelve years, Elora leads the international team in creating hospitality projects, school campuses, private […]

Feifei Zhou is a Chinese-born artist and architect. She was a guest researcher at Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA), during which she co-edited the digital publication Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene (Stanford University Press, 2020) with anthropologists Anna Tsing, Jennifer Deger and Alder Keleman Saxena. Her work explores spatial, cultural, and ecological impacts […]

Dr. Petra Gruber is an architect with a passion for biology and biomimetic design. She holds a PhD in “Biomimetics in Architecture” from the Vienna University of Technology in Austria and worked internationally on three continents in inter- and transdisciplinary design, research, and education, at the intersection of biology, architecture and art. She is Adjunct […]

Jonathan is a multidisciplinary architectural designer and maker, working between the built environment, digital fabrication with a particular focus on rural contexts. He founded the Green Fab Lab at Valldaura Labs, IAAC Campus in Barcelona in 2013 and is currently the Project Manager of an EU Horizon 2020 program that develops tools for Climate Resilient […]