Anna Sbokou

Lead Lighting Designer

 

Anna is a lighting designer with an interior design background, based in London and Athens, working on local and international projects for over 10 years. She has worked extensively on lighting in both commercial and private sectors. Her work includes high profile exhibitions, leisure, commercial, exterior and residential projects. She works as an independent professional and also collaborates with other designers, such as Zerlina Hughes at studiozna , Paula Rainha at synapse and Gustavo Aviles at lighteam, as an external consultant.
She is also frequently participating in international conferences as guest speaker. Anna is serving on the Board of Directors for the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD).
In 2009 Anna was awarded Young Lighting of the Year by the Society of Light and Lighting in London.
In 2014 the project 'Memorial for the Victims of Violence' in Mexico City received an International Lighting Design Award of Excellence by the IALD.
Anna was included in the 40under40 list at the 2016 Lighting Design Awards.

Catia Milia-Argeiti

Lighting Designer

 

Catia is an architect and a lighting designer, based in Athens. She studied architecture at the University of Patras (UP) and she attended the Master's program "Architectural Lighting Design" in the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH). Her architectural background gave her the ability to develop a project from the conceptual stage to its final detail. Her lighting design approach is human-centric and covers a broad thematic, from the lighting of indoor and outdoor spaces to luminaire design. She believes in the power of light to improve the quality of daily life and reactivate public space.

Melina Lasithiotaki

Lighting Designer

 

Melina Lasithiotaki is an architect and an emerging lighting designer. She has graduated as an Architect - Engineer from the Technical University of Crete in 2014, and she is currently undertaking the last year of her post graduate degree in Lighting Design (MA) at the Hellenic Open University. Formerly, she has worked as a freelance architect & designer on diverse projects including architecture, graphic design, and visual arts. Having approached these aspects through a more artistic view, she attempts to compose lighting projects that are detailed, layered, textured and thoroughly designed, while causing a variety of emotional stimuli.

Fernanda Balcells

Lighting Design for Theatre and Cinema

 

Fernanda has been working as a lighting designer for 13 years with professional experience in theatre, film and architecture. In the field of cinema she has worked as a director or photography and cinematographer in short and feature films. In addition, she has designed the lighting in over 20 performances of theatre, dance and art installations. She teaches cinematography at the University of the Arts (UNA) and the Universidad del Cine (FUC) in Buenos Aires. She is teaching lighting for the stage at the Universidad ARCOS in Santiago, Chile.

Ioanna Kotoula

Junior Lighting Designer

 

Ioanna Kotoula is an Interior Designer, graduate of the University of West Attica (February 2020). She has been working as an Interior Designer since 2018, she has participated in exhibitions related to the field of architecture since July 2016. She has worked on various projects such as marine interior design, retail shops, houses and hotels from the initial stage of the project to the constructional details and applications. From October 2020 she has been studding in the Postgraduate studies of Hellenic Open University on the subject of Lighting Design.

Katerina Petrocheilou

Junior Lighting Designer

 

Katerina graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Patras in 2013, and then completed the postgraduate program in Lighting Design at the Hellenic Open University in 2021, with a special interest in urban landscape lighting. She worked as an architect engineer for 8 years in Greece and the Netherlands, participating in a variety of projects at all stages, from the conception of an idea to its implementation. The design of the lighting of a space has always been for her a field of study, which she constantly evolves in order to enhance the forms and improve the user's experience.

Elli Protopapadaki

Intern

 

Elli Protopapadaki is a graduate of the School of Architecture of the University of Patras (July 2021). Since 2016 she has worked in architectural offices, that study interior lighting and museology projects. She has participated in exhibitions and workshops of art and architecture, in Greece and abroad and has attended seminars on theatrical lighting, construction and a dialogue between the gaze, the body and the city.