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Firas Safieddine
| Screen Name | Firas | Activities | 1 |
| Member Since | Jan 26, 2021 | ||
| Country | Spain |
Firas is a Barcelona-based urban designer, architect, artist, researcher, and neurotech enthusiast who currently operates on several fronts; editorial board member at UrbanNext [ an online platform that disseminates content, with the ethos of expanding architecture to rethink cities and territories ], creative and tech director/Senior urban designer at Guallart Architects designing Biocities as international urban projects and competitions, and chapter lead at NeurotechBCN, the Barcelona chapter of NeurotechX, an international community that fuels up the development of neurotechnology.
He coined “Electrical Ecologies” and carries on personal research on the topic. Given the unprecedented conditions we currently deal with, his research is committed to conceptualizing a viable planetary-scale nervous system within a comprehensive model that he can navigate as a designer.
Firas has participated through realized projects in VividLights Festival in Sydney [ Nacre ], LlumBCN in Barcelona [ Brillen en la Foscor ], Tallinn Architecture Biennale in Tallin [ LiveCycles ], Fab Festival in Chile and Shenzhen [ Brain Space Apparatus, Skin2 ], Global AI summit in Riyadh [ Emergent Topographies], and more.
Throughout his professional journey, he has taken part in jury panels, taught at Master programs, and lectured on several occasions.
In addition to his professional design work, he has been awarded several times for his artistic work. In 2014, he represented Lebanon in Capetown at the RedBull Doodle Art global competition as a National winner and been selected winner at the 2020 AI Artathon, the first international art and artificial intelligence hackathon at its scale.
He holds a bachelor’s in Architecture from the University of Balamand through the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts and a post-professional master’s degree from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya through the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia.
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| Firas Safieddine joined the Pandemic Response CoLab community | Jan 26, 2021 |