Faculty 2025 - 2026

For an overview of all tutors & guests since 2003: TUTOR GALAXY

For an overview of the facilitators making it all possible: CREW

Faculty 2025-2026 is divided in cohorts, connected to DAI's four defining Curriculum Components (in short cc), the pedagogical pillars as they are described and explained in our

Syllabus 2025-2026.

The head of program, artistic director Gabriëlle Schleijpen together with co-head of program and co-artistic director Leire Vergara and in close and ongoing conversation and collaboration with education leaders Nikos Doulos (Student Study Trajectory counsellor & edu-leader WEAVER), Dina A. Mohamed (edu-leader HTDTWT) and Philippa Driest (edu-leader COOP), are responsible for the framework and effectuation of the Syllabus. 

A. Team HTDTWT

curriculum component: HTDTWT

education leader:  Dina A. Mohamed

Dr. Amit S.Rai                       

Dr. Ghalya Saadawi

Dr. Hypatia Vourloumis

Dr. Grant Watson

Dr. Sarah Lewis-Cappellari

Dr. Sladja Blazan

PhD internship: 

Theresa Zwerschke

B. Team COOP

curriculum component: COOP study groups

education leader: Philippa (Flip) Driest

COOP partner: ARCHIVE ENSEMBLE

lead tutors:

Chiara Figone

Iman Salem

COOP partner: De Appel Amsterdam

lead tutors:

Noor Abu Arafeh

Marina Christodoulidou

COOP partner: Hosting Lands

lead tutors: 

Aziza Harmel 

Harun Morisson

COOP partner: If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution

lead tutors: 

Frédérique Bergholtz

Angelo Custodio

COOP partner: Neringa Forest Architecture

lead tutors:  

Egija Inzule

Jurga Daubaraitė

Jonas Žukauskas

COOP partner: SAVVY Contemporary

lead tutors:

Daniellis Hernandez Calderon

Mokia Dinnyuy Manjoh

 

COOP guests:  guests: 

Jumana Emil Abboud

Lydia Amarouche

Areej Ashhab

Kathleen Bomani

Tewa Barnosa

Eglė Bazaraitė

Alice Bucknell (remote)

Eglė Budvytytė

Santiago Calderón García

Chiara Cartuccia

Anik Fournier

Pietro Franco

Pascale Gatzen

Êvar Huseynî

Dirar Kalash

Lina Lapelytė

Erika Lastovskytė (remote)

Kamila Metwaly

Mushiva

Nissa Nishikawa

Mandus Ridefelt (remote)

Jihan El Tahri

Indrė Umbrasaitė


 

C. Team Kitchen & AEROPONIC ACTS

curriculum component: Kitchen & A-Acts

convener: Gabriëlle Schleijpen

production leader: Peter Sattler 

advisor Kitchen first year: Leire Vergara

coach Kitchen first year: Quinsy Gario 

coach & curator AEROPONIC ACTS: Elisa Giuliani 

respondents AEROPONIC ACTS 2025:

Kitchen Respondents:

Noah Brehmer

Alessandra Ferrini

Tobi Haslett

Jeanne van Heeswijk

Laila Hida

Ioli Kavakou

Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes

Justin Randolph Thompson

Ada Maricia Patterson

Emily Pethick

Kari Leigh Rosenfeld

Marika Vandekraats

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D. Team WEAVER

curriculum component: WEAVER                                 

education leader: Nikos Doulos                                    

How To Cook Things While Roaming:                        

Sophia Zbinovsky Braddel

Factory: student led

 

& PALESTINE TEACH OUTS 2025-2026

PTO are convened across the Curriculum Components  

Guests: Kamal Ahamada, Areej Ashhab, Noah Brehmer, Jumana Emil AbboudAdam HajYahia, Tobi Haslett, Dirar Kalash, Yazan Khalili, Samaneh Moafi, Golrokh Nafisi, Kari Leigh Rosenfeld, Ghalya Saadawi

 

& ROAMING ASSEMBLY

ROAMING ASSEMBLY = the annual one-off public symposium commisioned by DAI in collaboration with the Archipelago Weaver of that year: 

Contributors Roaming Assembly#33: Tewa Barnosa, Viola Castellano, Carmine Conelli, Associazione COVA Contro, Giulia CrispianiJihan El-Tahri, Alessandra Ferrini, Anselm Franke, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Elisa Giuliani, Mark Mushiva, Muna MussieYvan Sagnet.