Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Magdalini Grigoriadou is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, where she has developed the project DISEMBODY: Augmented Corporeal Experiences in the Hyper-Tectonic Environment of a Digital Platform, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. She holds a Diploma in Architecture from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a Master's degree in Digital Communication and Multimedia in the Architectural Project, and a PhD (2014) from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, where her doctoral research examined the concept of the imaginary through the evolving notions of space, time, and body. Her postdoctoral work, conducted in Mexico (2016–2017) and supported by the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, explored the experience of nostalgia and otherness through the lens of the fragmented body. She is the author of El imaginario en la génesis del proyecto arquitectónico (Nobuko, 2016) and Sparágmata: fragmentos identitarios y cuerpos multiplicados en la ciudad contemporánea (Nobuko, 2021).

Her research investigates the intersections of body, space, and technology, with a particular focus on corporeal experience in virtual and augmented reality environments. Drawing on feminist theory, posthuman studies, and Critical Disability Studies, she examines how embodied, sensory, and psychosomatic conditions shape spatial design and digital architectures. She has taught at architecture schools in Spain and Greece, and has presented her work extensively at international conferences in Europe and Latin America.