Ersia Stylianou

Researcher

Ersia Stylianou is an architect-engineer and researcher interested in territorialisation, colonial histories and landscape transformations. She works as a researcher at the University of Cyprus’s Laboratory of Urbanism (LUCY) since 2021. Ersia worked as a Special Scientist, teaching the second-year Studio and as a tutor for the fourth-year Studio. Ersia is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Architecture at UCY.  Her research explores how colonial frameworks through agricultural practices influence space and human-nonhuman relations. Her research contributes to a deeper understanding of how colonial and post-colonial territorial practices have altered landscapes and human-nonhuman interactions. Ersia holds an Integrated Master’s Degree and a Bachelor’s in Architecture and Engineering from NTUA. Between 2023 and 2024, she coordinated the SUCY lecture series. In 2022, she attended TU Graz, Austria, as an Erasmus+ placement as a participant and contributor in the International Symposium Territorial Turn! Towards a just, ecological and collaborative urbanism. Since 2021, she has worked as a teaching and research assistant. Ersia has presented papers in international conferences and symposiums and participated in workshops and exhibitions. Her most recent presentation was in the 2024 ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, with the article, Cyprus historic cooperative movements; a solution mechanism for land ownership conflicts in Paphos today.