Dimitra Theochari, Consultant Liveable Cities Lab
Dimitra Theochari is an architect, engineer and landscape architect working in Atelier Dreiseitl, Ramboll New Markets. Dimitra has a wide multicultural life experience, is very environmentally and socially sensitive, and is committed to creating good places for good reasons. Her specialties include food urbanism, waterfront redevelopment schemes, public space design, and commitment to liveable solutions.

Her background includes a professional degree in Architecture and Structural Engineering (Masters, National Technical University of Athens, class of 2010) and a professional degree in Landscape Architecture (MLA from The University of Texas at Austin, class of 2012). During her studies in the US as a Fulbright Scholar, she enrolled the Sustainable Design Portfolio Program of UTSOA. During her studies she has received a number of academic and design awards, including three awards, publications and participation in the travelling exhibition of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) all around the US following the Annual AIA Conference, three consecutive times in the years 2013, 2015 and 2016.

Despite her young age, Dimitra has a short but very diverse working experience. Highlights of her professional career include the two year cooperation with Turenscape, one of the most famous and significant landscape architecture firms and the most famous company in China. During her enrollment in the company Dimitra joined the Turenscape+LakeFlato Team for the "Waller Creek Competition" in Austin, TX; a project for which Turenscape+LakeFlato reached the Final Four and received a 100,000$ award. At the same time, during her stay in Beijing in 2012 she became a member of the editorial team of Greearchitects.gr, as the reporter for landscape architecture issues in China and has since continued writing on landscape architecture and her visiting of cutting-edge LA projects. In 2013, she has worked on food urbanism projects for Verzone Woods Architectes, a firm located in the Swiss Alps, and designed the winning entry for the Agro-Parc Bernex Competition in Geneva. This project is one of the first agro-parks ever built worldwide in an area of 9 ha, and with construction budget of 7 M CHF, and is currently under construction.

Currently, Dimitra is part of the Atelier Dreiseitl team and is developing projects like the Landscape and Public Realm Master Plan of the famous Masdar City (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and the new Singapore Zoo. In the past two years she has worked on projects of different scales and scope in multiple countries/cities including Denmark, China, Indonesia, Bahrain, Singapore, Turkey, Scotlan, India, Boston and San Francisco.

Finally, Dimitra remains a very active traveler taking every opportunity to visit new cities, countries and landscapes all over the world. For, Dimitra is a collector of experiences of different cultures and people mentalities, she believes in phenomenological design of space that provides more services and solely the aesthetics of the designed and that the beauty of life lies in the human socialization and interaction in a city that nature constitutes an inherent part of it.