Marilena Skavara is a London based architect and interaction designer. She is a co-founder and partner at Codica Ltd., a London-based digital product design practice focused on outcome-driven innovation. Using high-fidelity prototyping and embedding design into agile development cycles, Codica delivers the real product experience in record time, maximising the opportunities for iteration and refinement. She has led and contributed to transformational projects for Mercedes Benz, UCL, M&S, HM Government and several leading startups in fintech, automotive, AI, health, femtech and media. She has also been involved in social impact projects for non-profits in the US, UK and EU.

Prior to that, she has run physical computing workshops for the Bartlett, UCL, the Architectural Association (AA) in London, Ecole Speciale d’ Architecture in Paris, and other universities in Sweden and Denmark. Marilena is one of the founding members and editors of FABRICATE — a triennial international peer-reviewed conference and publication, which explores the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century. She holds a MSc (Hons) degree in Architecture from the National Technical University in Athens and a MSc (Hons) Adaptive Architecture & Computation (AAC) at the Bartlett, UCL. Her MSc graduate project ‘Adaptive fa[ca]de’ was extensively exhibited, published and presented at conferences and publications.