conferences & events
2025.10.02-05.
LUMEN – The journey to hope LARP selected player.
2025.09.20-25.
Landscape Research Group: Cairo Critical Field Study selected participant.
2025.09.10-12.
International Federation of Landscape Architects World Congress, presentation on “Entanglements – living-scapes – collaborative meaning-making”
2025.09.07-10.
ECLAS agriCULTURAL Landscapes, workshop on “Playing the Landscape for bottom-up transformation”
2025.06.12
Wageningen’s Transdisciplinary Research Education Dialogue Community day, workshop on UnBox
2025.05.23.
Open Landscape Academy Symposium, workshop on “UnBox – journey through landscapes of metaphors”
2024.11.13-15
4th International Conference Social and Solidarity Economy and the Commons, co-convening a session titled “Practices of sympoiesis versus the seducing allure of contemporary perplexities”, presentation on “Yet we have two hands. – Caring as a Community of Practice in academia”.
2024.09.07-10
European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools Conference 2024 – Regenerative Landscapes, designing the transition, leading the closing workshop, designed & delivered by myself on “(Re)generative <-> (Re)connections” with cca. 200 participants.
2024.06.17
International Sustainability Transitions conference, presentation on “Performance and games for re-building & re-imagining our relationships with nature”.
2023.07.16-23
Trust in Play! The Elefsina Cycles – School of Urban Game Design. Co-designer of the “Sun Tales” game.
2023.06.14
Un/building the Future – Utopian Conference, presentation on “Collaborative Infrastructures: reimagining urban landscapes towards prosperous futures”.
2022.10.20
Middle East Landscape Forum presentation on “A framework to create collaborative infrastructures for more just, ecological and transformative urban design – Lessons from Beirut” in the “Designing Transformative Change for Productive Landscapes” session.
2022.07.14
Utopian Studies Society Conference duologue with Sara C. Motta on “Threading space – dignity against and beyond hope.” At the “Bodies, Families, Desires” panel.
2022.07.01
7th Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning presentation on “Developing a framework for Deeper Levels of Participation in Urban Nature-Based Solutions” in the Landscape/Greenspace Policy and Planning session2
2022.06.30
World Biodiversity Forum presentation “A framework to facilitate participation to create collaborative infrastructures for more just, ecological and transformative urban design – Lessons from Budapest” at the panel “Urban Biodiversity – European best practice examples for a better future”
2022.06.26-30
World Urban Forum 11 participation as part of the Council on Urban Initiatives Secretariat
2022.03.28
International Studies Association Annual Convention, Kinship Across Borders: Feminist collaborative writing-dancing across time and space virtual roundtable discussant
2021.10.27
The Bartlett ‘Imperfect by Design’ event guest speaker
2021.10.23
UCL Urban Lab’s Urban Miscellanea launch event speech on Tawari2. – (Emergency)
2021.08.09-26
UCL Culture’s Public Engagement: Skills and Practice Training – Guest speaker and facilitator https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/projects/public-engagement-skills-and-practice
2021.02.25
The Bartlett PhD Research Projects 2021 Conference Presentation
2021.01.14-15
CitSci Helvetica: Citizen Science conference by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich (UZH), presentation on the role of CS in co-design and collaborative urban space development. http://citscihelvetia.ch/home-en-tests/
2020.07.16
26th International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference presentation on ‘Collaborative infrastructures for a transformative and prosperous future’ in the ‘Public participation and role of stakeholders’ section. http://www.isdrsconference.org/
2020.02.27
World Biodiversity Forum presentation on ‘The importance of nature-based solutions for people, the planet and prosperity’ in the ‘Nature-based solutions for adapting and mitigating climate change’ section. https://www.worldbiodiversityforum.org/en
2019 October
Co-facilitating a hackathon tackling the Sustainable Development Goals, as a grassroots initiative in response to the Lebanese Revolution (Thawra).
2018.05.07
Invited panel speaker at the Contemporary Architecture Center’s (KÉK) (Budapest) monthly series ‘Trust your architect!’ in the Sustainable Architecture edition.
2017.07.02-05
PLEA – Design to Thrive Conference Edinburgh, presentation ‘A case study on Budapest: Lessons on urban resilience’ in the Placemaking and Wellbeing Forum.
2016.12.07
Open City Makers Initiative (London) – Participant.
2016.12.02-04
Planning System Hack (London) – Participant designing and developing a tool called ‘Co-creative places’ providing platform to bridge the gap between local communities and planning professionals and tackle the challenge of under-utilized land versus land-scarcity.
2016.11.04-06
Global Sustainability Jam – One of three main co-organizers and facilitator of the Sustainability Jam Budapest.
2016.03.04
Runner-up to represent the youth of the United Kingdom in the 30th and 31st Session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
2016.02.26-28
Global Service Jam – Glasgow Jam participant; designing and developing a sensory food board game to create behavior change and challenge perceptions.
2013.01.18
University of Arts London: Green Week - Conducting a workshop on Sustainability.
2012.12.05
Facilitating the Sustainable Travelling Conference - Part of the University of Exeter’s ‘Co-creating behavioural change campaign for sustainability’ programme.