Stefana Parascho & Eric Duong (CRCL EPFL), Zara Pfeifer

About Stefana Parascho, Eric Duong  and Zara Pfeifer

Stefana Parascho is a researcher, architect, and educator whose work lies at the intersection of architecture, robotics and computational design. She is currently an Assistant Professor at EPFL where she founded the Lab for Creative Computation (CRCL). 

Through her research, she has explored multi-agent fabrication methods, and their relationship to architecture. Her current work focuses on human-robot collaborative processes and the relationship between robotic construction and the built environment. Her goal is to strengthen the interdisciplinary nature of the field by increasing accessibility of digital tools and connecting technical research with societal aspects.

Before joining EPFL, Stefana was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University, where she led the CREATE Lab Princeton. She completed her doctorate in 2019 at ETH Zurich, Gramazio Kohler Research. Previously, she received her Diploma in Architectural Engineering from the University of Stuttgart and worked with DesignToProduction Stuttgart and Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering.

Eric Duong is a scientific collaborator at the Lab for Creative Computation, designing and prototyping human-computer interfaces for fabrication and play. His work has spanned interactive installations, spatialized robotic interfaces, and agent-based web applications toward making emerging technologies more accessible and constructing experimental hybrids between creative and technical disciplines. He completed his B.Sci degrees in Architecture and Computer Science at the University of Virginia. After graduating, he went on to work as a research specialist at the Princeton University CREATE Lab, where he began working with Stefana Parascho on "Social Signals", a research installation that encouraged serendipitous connection through generative light and computational occupancy analysis. 

Zara Pfeifer is an artist based in Vienna and Berlin whose work is concerned with the social phenomena of large-scale infrastructure. Her documentation of the modernist housing project Alterlaa („Du, meine konkrete Utopie“, 2013-17) and her series on truck drivers („Good Street!“, 2018-2022) involves extended periods of immersion in the day-to-day life of her subjects. She has worked with institutions, including the MAK Center in Los Angeles and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Berlin. Her publications include Monocle, ZEITmagazin, and Monopol, and she has received a studio grant at ISCP New York from the Austrian Federal Government. Her book ICC Berlin was published in 2022 by Jovis Verlag. Pfeifer studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and photography at the Friedl Kubelka School for Artistic Photography in Vienna. She holds a lecturing position at the Technical University Vienna.