Elpitha Tsoutsounakis

Multi-Disciplinary Design Assistant Professor, University of Utah

Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 2:45 p.m. | Plenary Session - Nature and the Built Environment: A Conversation Across Design

Elpitha Tsoutsounakis (she/her) is a Cretan-American designer, printer, and educator based in so-called Salt Lake City. She completed a Bachelor of Science in architecture at the University of Utah and a Master of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. She is an assistant professor and founding faculty in the Division of Multi-disciplinary Design at the University of Utah.

Her scholarship combines community-based design research in “public lands” and rural places with creative practice in Ochres and more-than-human entanglements. She is the founder of the Field Studio Geontological Survey, a research collective thinking with Ochre. She was named a 2023 Utah Design Arts Fellow by the Utah State Division of Arts and Museums and is currently a fellow at Granary Arts in Ephraim, Utah.