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Cristina is Assistant Professor at the ADE Chair at the TU Eindhoven, since July 2020. Prior to this, from January 2016 till June 2020, Cristina was Assistant Professor in Design and Digital Fabrication at the  Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh and since 2019 International Director of the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She finished her architecture studies at the Technical University of Munich in 2010 and received her PhD in architectural robotics from the HafenCity University Hamburg in 2015. Additionally, she studied at the University of Bath and completed the PG research-led programme Open Thesis Fabrication at the IAAC —Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia— in Barcelona. 

Her work has been widely published and exhibited. The project Minibuilders, a project hosted at IAAC and based on a series of mini-robots, has been covered by the international press. Her work has been exhibited at the National Museum Scotland, Ecobuild London and most recently Festival of Architecture in Montpellier 2019, winning with her team the People’s Choice Award for the parametric installation Le Papilion D’Or.

In her teaching and research, Cristina developed a line of investigation throughout the past 5 years entitled Tectonics of the Immaterial. She is focussing on research-based investigations of the impact of large-scale industrial, logistical and mobility infrastructures, their socio-economic implications as well as their urban and architectural dimension for our cities and every day. Cristina develops and tests her research and experimental methodology through teaching, continuously refining approaches for developing information-based scenarios and speculative urban and architectural proposals. As communication is key, Cristina blends different media to visualise the complexities of her research and to capture the attention and fascination of a wider audience. Graphic design, photography, video and physical installations form interwoven communication strategies Her research covers the United Kingdom, with a focus on London, Scotland and its island archipelagos, the Netherlands, Germany and Colombia.

Being committed to exploring the boundaries of advanced digital fabrication and computational design, Cristina experiments with new strategies of making and hybridised material systems for large-scale prototyping and installation design.

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Fraser is both a designer at award-winning practice Architecture 00, alongside his work at Flere Atelier & Future Fields - both of which he co-founded with Sophie Linnea Riddervold and Cristina Nan respectively. Having finished his undergraduate studies at the Edinburgh College of Art, Fraser moved to London to join a pioneering new design school - The London School of Architecture. There his thesis focused on waste in the city proposing super-slim autonomous recycling towers for central London.

Having worked at acclaimed architecture offices of varying scales, Fraser has gained experience working on large cultural, high-end residential and office projects. Previous projects include the extension to the Stirling Prize-winning Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance by Herzog & De Meuron with additional residential towers, the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and Albany Marina Residence master planned by BIG. Current projects include a large tech incubation and cultural building in Wales and a concept coffee shop for Porsche Centre Oslo & Supreme Roastworks in Norway.

His work has been widely published and exhibited. Part of the Archifringe exhibition 'Diaspora' in Scotland he exhibited work alongside Farshid Moussavi, Sam Jacobs, Kate Macintosh, and others. Other exhibitions include an honourable mention in the ‘Blueprint for the Future’ exhibition in July and subsequent publication in their summer issue, inclusion in the ‘Industrialised’ exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects in Portland Place, and inclusion in the group exhibition ‘No-stop home-office’ currently at the Architekturgalerie München.

Current publications include the Spring issue of Citizen Magazine, Ism Magazine's issue 2, and the upcoming new issue of Crumble Magazine.