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Lara is an ESRC-funded postgraduate researcher and teaching associate at the Sheffield School of Architecture. Coming from Cyprus, her research and practice centres around exploring the role of spatial practice in contexts of conflict and spatial inequality. Her PhD research (also presented in this website) specifically focuses on mapping the convocation of radical imaginations through critical spatial practice in contested contexts. 

She is part of a number of research-based collectives including: Imaginary Famagusta, a Cypriot bi-communal initiative advocating for the role of spatial practice in reconciliation processes; the Urban Commons Research Collective; and Lines of Flight. She, moreover, shares her postgraduate journey on the PhDamn podcast, in slightly ‘unprofessional’ and not-very-academic conversations with her friends, Merissa and Pragya.

Lara has previously gained a bachelor and diploma degree in Architecture, master’s degrees in Urban Design and Social Research and has worked as an architect, urban designer, and research assistant. She has participated in a multiple competitions and exhibitions which combine art-based, architecture, and social research methods.