RESUME
Design Experience & Exhibitions
3D Visualiser / Interior Designer
(DBSL Design & Building Solutions LTD)
February 2021 - Now
Responsible for the interior and exterior design of clients’ dwellings; the creation of photo-realistic 3D images of the proposed design ideas in V-Ray & Rhino; the preparation of technical drawings in AutoCAD; and the monitoring of the construction process.
Lighting Designer/ Consultant
(DBSL Design & Building Solutions LTD)
September 2020 - January 2021
Responsible for meeting with the clients to discuss about their needs and to provide expert advice as well as solutions for lighting in their homes, with respect to clients’ budget. The responsibilities also included the preparation of the corresponding architectural drawings in AutoCAD and the photometry of the proposed lighting design in DIALux.
Internship
(Furniture Design)
April 2014 - September 2014
Practical Training Internship in a furniture design company in Athens, where I cooperated with architects, technicians and manufacturers. Mainly, I was responsible for making 2D technical drawings of furniture in AutoCAD and created lots of presentations in Photoshop and PowerPoint.
Platform 5/ EX-MEKH/ The Netherlands
(Curator Assistant)
3rd June 2015
Assistant curator at Platform 5/ EX-MEKH/ The Netherlands, for the exhibition Art Athina 2015, which took place in Athens, Greece. Helped the artists to organize their stall’s display.
Open House Athens - Syn-Athina
(Info Point Stuff/ Stand)
13th - 17th May 2015
Info Point Stuff/ Stand, Syn-Athina, for the exhibition Open House Athens in Athens, Greece. Responsible for informing visitors about the exhibition and the history of the buildings.
Art Athina Contemporaries: Paradise Lost
(Curator Assistant)
16th - 19th May, 2013
Organised the exhibits for the stall “Art Athina Contemporaries: Paradise Lost” and guided the visitors during the exhibition which took place in Athens, Greece
Design Lab Athens
(Exhibitor)
15th - 17th May 2015
Participated in the exhibition Design Lab Athens with a hanger I designed.
Video Art
(Exhibitor)
14th - 15th February 2014
Created a video for the exhibition Video Art, in Athens, Greece. The title of the video was “The line in the 4rth dimension” and was a combination of stop-motion and mapping projection.
Design Lab Athens
(Exhibitor)
20th - 23th May 2013
Participated in the exhibition Design Lab Athens, where I exhibited a chair I designed and received critical acclaim from professionals in the field.
Design Programs & Software Skills
Microsoft Office (Proficiency)
AutoCAD 2D (Proficiency)
Rhino / V-Ray (Proficiency)
DIALux (Proficiency)
Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Very good)
ArchiCAD (Good)
Solidworks (Good)
Adobe Premiere Pro (Very Good)
NVivo (Very Good)
Statistical Package for the Social Science, SPSS (Very Good)
Seminars & Workshops
• Essential Teaching Skills
• Unconscious Bias
• Design by Psychology
• Designing for Emotion
• Fundamental NVivo
•Disability Innovation Workshop
(Summit 2017)
•Starworks Workshop
(London 2017)
• DRS 2018 Conference
(Paper Presentation)
• International Central European ISPO 2018 Conference
(Poster Presentation)
• IASDR 2019 Conference
(Paper Presentation)
General Skills
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Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple projects and deliver to tight deadlines
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Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
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Ability to be proactive and to work autonomously
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Creative and high degree of flexibility
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Problem -solving skills
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Dedicated to own learning and development
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Languages
Greek (native)
English (fluency)
Lectures & Teaching Experience
Marking for Design Research Methods
(Loughborough Design School)
January 2018; 2019
Marking postgraduate students' reports in Design Research Methods. The course leader is Dr Debra Lilley.
Marking for Design for Behaviour Change
(Loughborough Design School)
February 2019; 2020
Marking postgraduate students' projects in Design for Behaviour Change. The course leader is Dr Debra Lilley.
Teaching & Marking for Design Context
(Loughborough Design School)
October 2017 - January 2018
Teaching assistant in the module of Design Context. I was responsible for teaching undergraduate students about the different areas of design and guiding them on how to do presentations. I also marked students' presentations. The course leader was Dr C. Samantha Porter.
Lecture on Design Research Methods
(Nottingham Trent University)
November 2016
Deliver a lecture to the postgraduate students of Product Design about research methods and how I had used them in my project. The course leader was Dr Daniel Shin.
Lecture on Stage Design
(Technological Educational Institute of Athens)
May 2014
Deliver a lecture entitled “The Machine in Scenic Space – Futurism and Bauhaus” at the department of Interior Design, Decoration and Product Design, where I compared and analysed the effects that these two movements of art had at the theaters, concerning the design of the scenes and the costumes.
Education
Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University, UK
2017 - 2020 (awarded with a full studentship from Loughborough University)
PhD in User-Centred & Emotional Design
Thesis: 'Emotionally-driven Prostheses: exploring the effects on users’ everyday lives in the UK and Greece'. The research explored the effects of emotionally-driven design of prostheses on users’ personal and social lives, with respect to the culture in which they lived. Thus, the study was conducted in two countries with different cultural contexts; those of the UK and Greece.
The research constituted of mixed methods. The 1st and 4th studies were online surveys, where users’ and societies’ attitudes towards the design of prostheses were investigated. The 2nd and 3rd studies constituted of interviews and probes, based on the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and the Six Sources of Emotions in Human-Product Interactions.
Nottingham Trent University, UK
2015 - 2016 (awarded with a scholarship from Nottingham Trent University)
MA in Product and Furniture Design; Final Grade: Distinction (73.4%)
• Major Project: “Design of prosthetic covers- The way that the design of the prosthetic covers can highlight the personality and the femininity of female amputees” – “Artis”. Conducted research (mixed methods) in various hospitals both in Nottingham and Greece, where I met participants for the primary research. The design phase was also based on the creation of three consumers’ personas.
• Major Courses: Research Methods (mixed methods, mind maps, brainstorming), Multi-disciplinary Innovation Project (team project; use of questionnaires and interviews), Furniture Futures (based on the creation of a novel story), and Horizon Scanning where I wrote a paper for a conference.
Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
2010 - 2014
BSc in Interior Design, Decoration and Product Design; Final Grade: 1st Class (8.61/10)
• Major Project: “The passage of Architectural Design to Clothing and Furniture”. In this project I cooperated with another student. Designed 5 lines of furniture inspired by four famous buildings of contemporary architecture and made the final video (using Adobe Premiere Pro), as well as the design of the book and the leaflets (Photoshop CS6).
•Major Courses: Interior architecture, Product design, Furniture design, Textile design, Stage design. During my studies I used ArchiCad and Artlantis Studio for the design of 3D models, while for the technical drawings I attended seminars in AutoCAD 2D.