Popi Iacovou is an architect and design researcher investigating transdisciplinary models of thinking and practicing architecture. She received a PhD by Architectural Design from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, funded by A.G Leventis Foundation and the FfWG (UK). She holds an MPhil on ‘Architecture and the Moving Image’ from the University of Cambridge funded by Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and a Diploma in Architecture from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has extensive teaching experience at institutions such as the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the University of Cambridge, Neapolis University and University of Nicosia.

Her research explores the intersections between architecture, performance and the moving image. It investigates how the everyday and the theatrical, as spatial events, produce architecture as a social field. Her methodology focuses on situated filmic practice as design research method for the study and interpretation of cultural and socio-political architectural and urban phenomena. It explores the potential of time-based media (i.e. cinematic techniques, mixed media animation and digital video) for analysing, designing and representing architecture by addressing issues of spatial experience, occupation and temporality. Recent on-going research focuses on archival creative practices with a focus on reconstructing the multiple life cycles of buildings challenging dominant histories. She is recipient of the Graham Foundation Award 2024 for the research project ‘Everyday Commoning: Living Diaries for Nicosia’s Transnational Spaces’.

She has published internationally and her films and design work has been shown in film festivals and architecture exhibition venues such as the Melbourne Design Week, Copenhagen Architecture Festival, the 16^th Venice Architecture Biennale, Hong Kong and Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, the Architecture + Design Film Festival 2022[a+dff], Winnipeg, USA, Byzantine Museum of Athens, the International Thessaloniki Film Festival and others. She has curated a number of architecture exhibitions for the London Festival of Architecture, The Gopher Hole (London), the Kolektiv Cité Radieuse gallery, Unité d’ Habitation Le Corbusier (Marseille), the State Gallery of Contemporary Art - SPEL (Nicosia, CY) and the Artos Cultural and Research House (Nicosia, CY).