Anastasia Karandinou is an architect and senior lecturer at the University of East London in the area of Architecture and Design. She has taught at the University of Portsmouth and at the University of Edinburgh and conducted research in the areas of architectural design, urbanism, digital media, interactive design, architecture and neuroscience. She represented Greece in the 11th Venice Biennale of Architecture as the main curator/ architect of the 'Athens by Sound' project, exploring the non-visual aspects of architecture. She recently co-led the ‘Cities in Transition’ project, funded by the British Council Newton grant, examining the political and social role of public space in cities of rapidly changing demographics.