Christina Priavolou

Bio

Dr. Christina Priavolou is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, leading the SMARTACULAR project on sustainable built environments. She holds a PhD in open construction systems from TalTech (Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance), an interdisciplinary MSc in Environmental Development from NTUA, and a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Patras. Christina has experience in private and public sector work and has served as a Research Fellow at TalTech, where she coordinated the Sustainability Stream of the ERC-funded COSMOLOCALISM project. She is also affiliated with the P2P Lab.

• Contact: christina.priavolou at gmail.com

Publications

Peer reviewed articles

• Priavolou, C. (2024), Can Smart Technology and Traditional Wisdom Craft Truly Sustainable Built Environments?, Building and Environment, 267, 112205. site

• Kouvara, A., Priavolou, C., Ott, D., Scherer, P, van Zyl-Bulitta, V.H. (2023), Circular, Local, Open: A Recipe for Sustainable Building Construction, Buildings, 13(10), #2493. site

• Priavolou, C., Troullaki, K., Tsiouris, N., Giotitsas, C., & Kostakis, V. (2022), Tracing sustainable production from a degrowth and localisation perspective: A case of 3D printers, Journal of Cleaner Production, 376, 134291. site

• Troullaki, K., Rozakis, S., Latoufis, K., Giotitsas, C., Priavolou, C. and Freire, F. (2022), Sustainable rural electrification: Harnessing a cosmolocal wind, Energies, 15(13): 1-16. site

• Priavolou, C., Tsiouris, N., Niaros, V. and Kostakis, V. (2021), Towards sustainable construction practices: How to reinvigorate vernacular buildings in the digital era?, Buildings, 11(7): 297. site

• Priavolou, C. (2020), To BIM or not to BIM? Lessons learned from a Greek vernacular museum building, AIMS Environmental Science, 7(2): 192-207. site text

• Priavolou, C. and Niaros, V. (2019), Assessing the openness and conviviality of open source technology: The case of the wikiHouse, Sustainability, 11(17): 4746. site text

• Priavolou, C. (2018), The emergence of open construction systems: A sustainable paradigm in the construction sector?, Journal of Futures Studies, 23(2): 67-84. site text

• Pantazis, A. and Priavolou, C. (2017), 3D printing as a means of learning and communication: The 3Ducation project revisited, Telematics and Informatics, 34(8): 1465-1476. site

Reports

• Niaros, V., Pantazis, A., Priavolou, C., and Martelloni, L. (2017). The maker movement: Values and principles. Prepared for the Open Design & Manufacturing project. text

Book Chapters

• Kouvara, A., Troullaki, K., Tsiouris, N., * Priavolou, C. (2024). Τα Κοινά ως ένα διαφορετικό υπόδειγμα βιώσιμης τεχνολογίας. In: KRISI Biannual Scientific Review , 15, 1, 59-80. Barcelona: Distributed Design. text.

• Priavolou, C. and Lemos, L. (2021). Looking for sustainability in distributed design: A future between rural communities and cryptocurrencies. In: This is Distributed Design: Making a new local and global design paradigm (250−255). Barcelona: Distributed Design.

• Priavolou, C. (2019). Tzoumakers - Co-creating Solutions for Agriculture. In: Armstrong, K., Diez, T., Goldapple, L., Schmidt, A., & Villum, C. (Eds.), Design, Remix, Share, Repeat: How distributed design is changing the way makers and designers approach collaboration, tools and the market (70−73). Barcelona: Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. text