Dr Liana Psarologaki RIBA, FRSA, SFHEA

I am an architect, visual artist and writer.

Before joining BNU in 2023 I was an Associate Professor and the founding Head of Architecture at the University of Suffolk where I led the BA (Hons) Architecture degree (ARB Part 1) and the research strand of Design at the Suffolk Sustainability Institute. Between 2020 and 2021 I served as Chair of Education for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) East Region.

I qualified at the world renowned National Technical University of Athens (2007) and practiced as an Architect before receiving an MA Fine Art (2010) and completing a PhD in the Creative Arts at the Centre of Spatial Analysis and Intervention UCA Canterbury for the University of Brighton (2015).

My specialist areas of research are interdisciplinary and focus on affective aesthetics of spatial experience, posthuman ecologies, and radical pedagogies. Through my scholarly work and creative practice, I contribute to current and international debates of contemporary art, architecture philosophy and theories of education. I have been awarded many times for academic excellence, and I am a recognised Deleuze scholar and member of Mapping Future Imaginaries (RMIT) and the Arts Pedagogy Group (Helsinki).

I recently started a collaborative project with Dr Amanda Hodgkinson on the poetics, politics and pedagogies of domestic cleaning rituals examined through poetry. Our work “Spring Cleaning” attracted more than 2,000 visitors as part of the Bodfa Continuum exhibition and Bodfa History project (Wales, 2022), and was presented at the Royal Academy of Arts ACT Symposium for the London Festival of Architecture (London, 2022).

I am a registered Architect in Practice (UK, ARB and Greece, TCG), a chartered member of the RIBA, a Fellow of the RSA, and a Senior Fellow of HEA (ΑdvanceHE). I am a validation board member for the RIBA and a specialist consultant for curriculum development and PSRB in Architecture nationally and internationally.

In 2020 I was a finalist at the International Greek Women’s Awards in the Category of Design and in 2022 I published the monograph Cultures of Erudition and Desire in University Pedagogy; Thoughts on Practice-led Curricula Before, Through and Beyond Deleuze as part of the Routledge series Rethinking Education.

View my portfolio at: www.aylostopos.com

• Associate Professor
• Deputy Head of School – Art, Design and Performance