Design Clips focuses on the development of participatory strategies and tools that enable citizens’ active contribution to different levels of decision-making and planning, primarily related to urban issues. We partner with private, public, and non-profit clients to identify their unique needs and provide tailored solutions to strengthen cities. We believe that the key for a successful urban project lies at the intersection of multi-level collaboration among the relevant stakeholders. Therefore, our mission is to successfully link the client’s vision for a project to its local context and design the combining element between the project’s scope and its end-user’s needs, just like a “clip”.
Maria Sitzoglou
founder / urban designer / architect
Maria is an architect, urban designer, and advocate for children’s rights in cities. With over a decade of experience, she specializes in engagement and participatory planning projects dedicated to fostering just and sustainable cities. Her expertise extends to global and European initiatives, including collaborations with organizations such as the EU Commission and the World Bank. Throughout her career, Maria has prioritized the inclusion of children in urban planning and policy-making processes, recognizing them as a pivotal but often overlooked demographic. She recently founded the “Design Clips” urban design studio with a mission to reimagine urban landscapes through the lens of children, by meaningfully involving them in the design process.
Nafsika Michail
participatory design manager / landscape architect
Nafsika is an architect, landscape architect, and urban designer with expertise in participatory design and children’s mobility. With a background spanning research and practice she specializes in behaviour change interventions that support healthier, more inclusive and sustainable cities. She has extensive experience in co-designed school street projects that meaningfully engage children and local communities in co-creation processes and her work focuses on developing participatory tools and inclusive engagement methods to better understand how urban environments influence everyday behaviour and wellbeing, with a special interest in active living and child-friendly places.
Aliki Iosafat
architect / graphic designer
Aliki Iosafat is an architect and multidisciplinary designer working across spatial design, animation, graphic design and visualization. She has developed a diverse body of work, ranging from animation and projection mapping to immersive installations. Currently, her work focuses on developing visual identities and communication materials for participatory processes, fostering public awareness and children’s engagement through the curation of participatory tools and producing engaging 2D and 3D visualizations for architectural and urban projects.