Dimitra
Almpani-Lekka

Dimitra Almpani-Lekka is an architect (Dipl. Arch. Eng.) who graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has been working in landscape architecture for the last few years, focusing on public space. She is a member of the Berlin-based SciArt Collective MY-CO-X, which experiments with the use of mycelium-based composite materials in the architectural context. She explores architectural structures as potentially active, integrated parts of the environment’s metabolic processes. She is interested in water transformations through the built environment with the aim of promoting multispecies symbioses. For the above, she investigates different species and colonies of the microcosm and the mechanisms that define their unique functions and properties. Dimitra Almpani-Lekka is currently a PhD candidate at the Architecture Department of the University of Ioannina in Greece.