Andri Christophides

Andri Christofides is a PhD student at the Department of Architecture of the University of Cyprus, undertaking an interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of KU Leuven in Belgium. Andri has an MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology from KU Leuven and a BA in English Literature from the University of Surrey, UK. Andri is also the Executive Manager of the non-governmental, non-profit organization Home for Cooperation, a sociocultural centre in the UN controlled buffer zone of Nicosia, contributing to civil-society-led efforts of positive conflict transformation.

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Her PhD research project combines her professional and personal interests to explore the tangible and intangible infrastructures of power which condition the various forms of division in Nicosia. Specifically, her work is interested in how division diffracts and becomes reformulated in new narratives in urban space. Her research focuses on the potentiality of urban imaginaries, by looking at routines, ruptures and expressions of resilience.

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Andri’s work aims to bring at the forefront the entanglements between Architecture and Social and Cultural Anthropology, appreciating the complexities but also the opportunities of this interdisciplinary approach. Ultimately, her project aims towards a potential contribution of theoretical and methodological tools which result from her interdisciplinary work and its practical applications.