MELINA PHILIPPOU
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Melina Philippou is
the Artistic Director of Visual Voices. Her work focuses on building tools,
processes, and infrastructure to support equal opportunity ecosystems through
art and design. Collaborating with grassroots organizations, municipalities,
and academic institutions, she has worked on equitable community development
projects in the Bronx, USA; Lisbon, Portugal; Azraq, Jordan; and Troodos,
Cyprus.
In her former capacity as the founding Programming Director of the Future Heritage Lab at the School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she led creative responses to conflict and crisis in the form of policy recommendations, pedagogy, design prototypes, and exhibitions, with a focus on the cultural resilience of displaced population.
Melina's work has received two International Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction (2021), was published as a book by MIT Press under the title "Design to Live" (2022), and was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2021). She holds a professional degree in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, as an IKY Cyprus State Scholar, and a Master of Science in Urbanism from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar.
In her former capacity as the founding Programming Director of the Future Heritage Lab at the School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she led creative responses to conflict and crisis in the form of policy recommendations, pedagogy, design prototypes, and exhibitions, with a focus on the cultural resilience of displaced population.
Melina's work has received two International Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction (2021), was published as a book by MIT Press under the title "Design to Live" (2022), and was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2021). She holds a professional degree in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, as an IKY Cyprus State Scholar, and a Master of Science in Urbanism from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar.