Team
FABER 2022
Iris
Hi, my name’s Iris ( msc.Architecture and Urban Design ) currently teaching at Barleti University.
This has always been a bit hard for me, because I don’t really know what to say, but I’ll go with the clichee. I have just finished my Erasmus studies at Anhalt University, and also an internship with Bauhaus Foundation there.
I have voluntered and become a part of Tirana Architecture Week and Tirana Design Week, organized by Polis University.
I have an addictive personality, and luckily, my main vice is architecture. And what I like to do-instead of sitting at a drafting table is to gather together images and ideas-mainly from and avout arch, but also from art, history, philophy and other areas—string them together, later them, cut through them and then weave together theories about why architecture matters.
But you cant learn to love arch or figure out why it matters just from abstractions. I learned to love it by experiencing buildings, sites, interiors, and images.
It is that experience I want to share, and when I saw the WAW project, I couldnt be more happy to do so.
Gledisa Golikja
I am an Architect and designer currently working in Urban Mobility Planning.
I’ve been working with national and international organizations for 11 years in fighting poverty, children’s education, and youth activism in several regions of Albania.
I run a page with my sister about period education called ‘Njolle’, and I am always ready to discuss gender perspectives in the urban environment.
I hold a non-official Guinness record for the weirdest food combinations, and my guilty pleasure is k-dramas and anime.
Joni Zguro
My name is Joni Zguro, I’m a landscape architect.
Being among the first generations in the field of landscape architecture in Albania, I have the desire to bring innovation in the design of public spaces, residential gardens and green spaces through sustainable and ecological development, as well as urban scale designs for a positive and ecological impact in the city.
Yllka - Communicator
Pathologic procrastinator. Dynamic relator. Detail lover. Kinetic. Sensory learner. Workaholic. Crazy observant.
As a very observant and kinetic person as well as very keen on creative side, I’ve been studying architecture and urban planning for 5 years now. I’ve started my studies at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning and currently attending an erasmus semester in Poland. Since 2019 I became part of EASA and it’s workshops and over the years broadened my experiences with GO2AL workshops and last but not least WAW. During this period I got to discover new perspectives and a new approach toward the issues that the community faces and the roles that every citizen can play in changing reality.
Dea Balliaj
Creator
Romantic at heart. Passionate by default. Deadset perfectionist. Hardship lover. Invincibly curious. Contagiously happy.
Dea Balliaj, student
I like to describe myself as passionate about what I love and a hardship lover.
Art and architecture have been a part of my life since I can’t remember. From 2018 I am dedicated 24/7 to it. I study architecture&urban planning in Polytechnic University of Albania and currently I’m an erasmus student in University of Applied Science in Nysa.
I’ve worked in different interior design studios in Tirana for years but I’ve always tried to feed my love for urban planning with different workshops and organizations .From 2020 I’m part of EASA AL, mainly active in workshops for Tirana and other cities of Albania. I have volunteered in workshops organized from GO2AL. WAW was a great opportunity as well to perceive the city in a different way and be part of creating a vision for it.
Ana Rrushi
Architect|Urban planner.
Interested in urban design and planning as well as human behavior relations to it.
A curious and adventurer woman with a passion to create and experience the world. Activist and feminist trying to help her community integrate and grow.
Splitting my time between studies, interior design and youth workshops is my favourite activity.
Ledio Ollomani
Hi, I am Ledio
I’m an architecture student. I like taking pictures and designing. Photography and architecture have this common quality of engraving a moment and thats the purpose i put behind every shot i take or line i draw.Back in the day I used to write, I don,t anymore, but those are the times that i was my core self. Things that make me human are being true to myself and rushing things.
If you have come this far , stream Enchanted by Taylor Swift.