EIRINI MALLIARAKI
ABOUT
eirinimalliaraki@gmail.com
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Technologist, researcher, and former founder. I build tools, programmes, and infrastructure at the intersection of AI, frontier science, and public-good innovation. I trained as a design engineer at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art. Before that, a BSc in Finance from the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Three preoccupations have shaped the past decade: how intelligence emerges and travels across minds, machines, and ecosystems; what infrastructure a field needs to translate knowledge into action; and what it means to build systems that regenerate rather than extract. I've pursued all three — across startups, research labs, national AI institutes, and philanthropy.
I’m based in London, and my email is always open to ethersamplers, epistemic humorists, and ungoogleable souls.
Other curiosities: Complex systems & memetic engineering · Extended cognition · Theorising entanglement · Radical social futures · New learning environments · Community praxis · The Arctic · Soulmaking Dharma · Planetarity · Post-human design · Collective imagination · The surreal · Science Roadmapping
CV
FLOATING LAB
2017
In collaboration with Elena Falomo and Agnes Giannaros. Special thanks to Robert Pulley, Paris Selinas, Simon Ryder and Bekkie Morgan from the Floating Classroom and Leo Burd from the MIT Duct Tape Network.
DESCRIPTION
Commissioned as part of the Thames Challenge: Safest EU River by 2030, in partnership with Lloyd's Register Foundation, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and the Port of London, Floating Lab is a repurposed boat that travels the Thames connecting communities along its journey. During the day: educational activities — river ecology, design thinking, engineering, arts and crafts. At night and weekends: mudlarking sculpture, seaweed crochet nights, tidal concerts, river hackathons.
The first proof of concept was a series of workshops for primary school children on the Floating Classroom in Regent Canal. We developed an immersive curriculum around two activities. In the first, children observed the canal's ecology and pollution, then built fictional river-bird automata designed to fight that pollution, learning mechanisms through making. In the second, they took on river personas and brainstormed water safety solutions, sketching and presenting to each other.
The curriculum integrated design thinking, engineering, technology, and arts and crafts — aligned with National Curriculum goals — and was tested with 15 pupils from Edward Wilson Primary School. The boat itself is designed to evolve: interactive installations, biology experiments, and modular furniture that adapts to each activity. A floating laboratory for learning to live with a river again.