Core Team Contributors




Yidi Lola Wang

汪一笛 is a social architect, infrastructural strategist, and artist-curator. She is the founder of Eternal Terra Ear New Society (ETENS), and a public speaker for ETENS’s post-humanitarian cultivation at the IRCAM Forum Center Pompidou, European Citizen Science Association, and UN Ocean Decade conference, etc. She is a working group member at Global Network on Culture Heritage Conservation Under Climate Change Action at COST Association, European Cooperation in Science and Technology.

She studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Independent School for the City, and Fab City Global Foundation x IAAC Barcelona. She was a researcher in Hong Kong post-war urban cooperative housing development, research participant at Sciences Po Paris DSA Sprint of Open Institute for Digital Transformation, and youth delegate of the World Bank summit 2025.

Her work has been exhibited at IABR International Architecture Biennale 2024, Transmedia Research Institute, Blue Institute for the Future in Milan, and IRCAM Center Pompidou in Paris.


Mónica Avella

International lawyer, policy advisor, and strategist access to justice, women’s empowerment, and humanitarian action across Latin America, Europe, and globally. She holds a MPP from the London School of Economics (LSE), where she founded the Women & Well-Being Forum 2025 with the Colombian Society. Mónica has collaborated with leading international organizations, including UN Women, OHCHR, USAID, Chemonics International, and Sorbonne ONU.

Currently, Mónica is developing her involvement with ETENS’ Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator, an initiative aiming to connect established women entrepreneurs with locally rooted ventures to exchange mentorship, knowledge, and resources. While still in its early stages, the project seeks to cultivate inclusive networks across cultural and technological ecosystems, empowering women-led enterprises and fostering cross-sector collaboration.


Fatemeh Kazemi فاطمه کاظمی  
(she/they, b. 1992, Tehran)
also known as Afimoh, is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice spans material fabrication, fiction writing, archiving, filming, curating, organizing, and hosting. Her work engages with themes of communal grief or غم (/gham/), underground economies, kitsch Iranian visual culture, ritual, and subculture. Developed through conversation and community-oriented collaborations, her approach is deeply rooted in collective experiences. 

Kazemi earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Tehran (2014) and an MFA in Studio Art from Syracuse University (2024). Her work moves fluidly across worlds, blending installation, lens-based media, and the poetic flow of creative writing. She has exhibited at Parallel Circuit Space (Tehran), SUB Community (Çanakkale), Ruschman Gallery (Chicago), Navel LA (Los Angeles), Smack Mellon (New York), and Bayt Al Mamzar (Dubai). Her experimental films have been screened at the London Short Film Festival, CulturalHub (New York), LUX Book Fair (London), Dresden Film Festival, Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse), and Foundry By Emaar (Dubai), among other venues.



Iliana Papadopoulou
Iliana is an architect, artist and creative developer. She has an academic background in architectural design and computation, holding an MArch from Aristotle University and an MSc in Architectural Computation from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

Her teaching and research roles at IAAC, CITA and The Bartlett, have served as platforms to rethink computational media through multidisciplinary experimentation. At Henning Larsen studio in Copenhagen, she contributed to R&D projects exploring emerging technologies to shape new spatial experiences, with a focus on local communities and diversity.

She is currently actively contributing to open-source software repositories alongside her artistic and theoretical projects. She experiments with game engines, web interfaces, 3D sculpting, and creative coding, weaving these tools into a polymathic approach that reshapes digital landscapes through custom software. Her work has been exhibited/published internationally, including at the Media Architecture Biennale in Amsterdam, Tbilisi Architecture Biennale, and the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen.

Friends and Past Collaborators:

Carolin Melia Brendel
Nunilo
Mo Chen
Babak Ahteshamipour
Chloe Aiko Stark
Abraham von Reimer
Jingwen Wang
POS
Sinan (Sonic Lab)
Gintas K
Kamila Holikova
iidrr. space
Elisa Subba
IRCAM Forum
Shafiullah Kawsar
(The Institute for Policy, Advocacy, and Governance (IPAG))
Global Shapers Community Hague
WoMa Paris



Chunjia Fang
Marco B
Mykyta Shkliaruk
Audry Chan
NDNMK Solutions
ZNAK Community
Aleta Aydarti
Alessio Pinton
Social Sensibility (Beijing, France)
Sasha (Oleksandra Nesen)
Tabata
Wearus.eu
Wuoni
Bram Dul
Blue Institute of Futures
Depth Space
Joao Miguel Ramos
Fab City Global Initiative
Fab Lab ESAN


Giah De los Reyes
Umanesimo Artificiale
Transmedia Research Institute
Andresa Garcia
Beate Poikane
E.Matysse Rose
Gesine Otto
Leon Eichelbaum
Parham Ghalamdar
Plastekpet
Ruba Al Sweel
Anastasiia Bortuali
Zoey Solomon
Altaf Hussain
Alessandro Rolandi
Maker Change Project
Brake Corner
Ari Kerssens
European Citizen Science Association
IAAC Barcelona

and more