We welcome visiting scholars who would like the opportunity of collaborating with the CivicIxD Team on their research projects for a period of time.

If you are interested in collaborating with us, fill in the form below and send it to our research coordinator, Morgana Braga (m.braga.costa.lima@hval.nl).

Previous Visiting Scholars:

Malcolm McCullough
Visiting scholar in 2023
Malcolm McCullough is Professor of Architecture at Taubman College, University of Michigan, where he has helped create America’s first undergraduate degree in Urban Technology. Previously he served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University (1998–2000), and for ten years (1988–98) at Harvard University. Earlier he was a pioneer of architectural computing at Autodesk (1984–86.) McCullough remains a widely-read writer on digital design culture. His book Digital Ground (2004) became a key crossover between architecture and interaction design. Ambient Commons (2013) introduced information environmentalism. Downtime on the Microgrid (2020) looked at urban resilience. Abstracting Craft (1996) remains an early cult classic in digital work practices. Digital Design Media (1991, with William Mitchell) was a pioneering textbook that appeared five languages. On the basis of these writings, McCullough has given nearly fifty invited talks in over a dozen countries. Currently he is at work on a new book about ambient information: Active City Reading–A Walk in Urban Technology. 

Lina Khalfallah
Visiting scholar in 2023
Lina Khalfallah is an Architect and PhD Candidate at the University of Algiers 1 – Benyoucef Benkhedda, specialising in Architecture and Urban Planning, with a focus on the use of digital technologies in the development of new cities. After her MS in Architecture, she gained experience working in various enterprises until 2020, when she started lecturing on urban infrastructures and mobility at the Polytechnical School of Architecture and Urban Planning (EPAU). Since starting her PhD, she has also given various lectures at the University of Algiers 1 – Benyoucef Benkhedda on Architectural studio, History of Architecture and Computer-Aided Design (CAD). Currently, she is researching the role of digital transformation of mobility in the development of new cities in Algeria: the case of the new city of Sidi Abdellah. As part of her PhD program, she won two scholarships to the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, collaborating with the Civic IxD research group in 2023 and 2024.

Bianca Andaloro
Visiting scholar in 2021
Bianca is an architect and a PhD candidate at the University of Palermo, researching the theme of resilience through adaptive architecture. She is part of the Unit In_Fra lab at the University of Palermo, where she researches the relationship between architecture and infrastructure and also on the theme of confiscated assets. After her MA in Architecture, she worked and in architectural firms and she won a scholarship for a period of study at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. In 2019 she began her PhD studies with a scholarship from the University of Palermo, investigating the theme of resilience through adaptive architecture and digital systems. She is currently visiting researcher in the Civic Interaction Design research group, in the project ‘From Prevention to Resilience: Designing Public Spaces in Times of Pandemics’.

Isavella Karouti 
Visiting scholar in 2020
She is an architect and a postgraduate student MSc on Cultural Organizations’ Management in the Hellenic Open University. Her ongoing master thesis is on the “Activities beyond the walls: urban games and cultural organizations. International practice and the Greek perspective”. In her thesis she will try to present urban games as a means for cultural organizations to communicate with their audience and also as a tool to raise audience.
At CivicIxD, she contributed to the Trust in Play project with the guidance of Martijn de Waal and Gabriele Ferri. The research area will be on how game designers approach the challenge of creating a game and the communication among game designers and other designers (like graphic, product, service designers, architects etc.).

Artur Vasconcelos Cordeiro
Visiting scholar in 2019
He is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP) with research on media architecture and participatory forms, advised by Profa. Dr. Giselle Beiguelman, with a scholarship from FAPESP. The proposal is to research hackable city practices related to media architecture, investigating participatory forms of media devices in public space.
Artur is also currently researching environmental sensing and ways of physical data visualization. In addition, he develops experimental projects with open technologies, digital fabrication, flashing LEDs and sounds.

Anna Brynskov
Visiting scholar in 2019
Visited as a research intern from the MA program in Digital Design at Aarhus University. She contributed to the Circulate research project with a design fiction movie on algorithmic governance.

Mattia Thibault
Visiting scholar in 2019
Visited from Tampere University (Finland) to work on his postdoc research on urban playfulness. The visit was co-hosted by Master Digital Design and Waag.

Walter Piccolo
Visiting scholar in 2019
Visited from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) to work on his MA thesis on interactive storytelling. He contributed a workshop to the students of the Master Digital Design.

Elisa Reale
Visiting scholar in 2019
She is a Ph.D. candidate for “Complex systems in life science” at the “Doctoral School in Life and Health Sciences” in Turin, Italy. Her research is conducted under the tutoring of Professor Michele Caselle, who is the head of the Biophys group at the physics department at the University of Turin. Elisa’s project revolves around the use of simple informatic tools to identify microRNAs with specific epigenetic behaviors, meaning that they have an effect on the molecules that can affect DNA translation without affecting the sequence itself. She has a master’s degree in Molecular Biotechnology. Creating her path from the wet lab to the in silico lab, she developed data analysis skills able to be applied in different fields.

Wouter Janssen (MIC, FDMCI)
Visiting scholar in 2019
Is staying with us as part of the exchange education-research preparing for his Ph.D. on rationality in the public sphere (mentor: Martijn de Waal)

Bianca Andaloro
Visiting scholar in 2019
She is a young Italian architect, graduated in the University of Palermo in July 2017 is visiting Civic Interaction Design group from January to July 2019. She is part of a research and didactic unit founded by Professor Z. Tesoriere is called “Infra lab”. Bianca is interested in public spaces and interactions between them and users, in the bottom-up design process and in the role of new technologies as an integral part of the design system, as well as recycling and regenerating city’s boundaries and obsolescent industrial areas.

Andy Hunsucker  
Visiting scholar in 2019
Is a PhD student Indiana University – HCI Design is staying with us from 1 Oct – 9 Nov, collecting data for his Ph.D. thesis by interviewing the industry partners of the Master of Digital Design.