Sofia Tsadari is a qualified PhD Architect and Urban & Regional Planner (NTUA), with extensive professional experience covering a wide range of studies and project coordination across multiple scales of design. She is a founding member of commonspace, an interdciplinary team in the fields of spatial strategies, architecture, social research, urban and environmental design, participatory planning through innovative tools and processes. Commonspace also forms the core of the participatory planning community Participatory Lab, which numbers more than 1,000 members and has established a biennial participatory planning conference that combines research and theoretical inquiry with innovative practices.
In addition, she has worked on urban planning research and studies and participated for two years in the study team of the 2014 Athens Regulatory Plan. She has presented publications at urban planning conferences and has served on scientific committees.
She has experience in strategic development planning, in both urban and non-urban areas, as well as in building design studies and coordination of public and private projects, with participations and awards in architectural competitions.
She serves as VP of the Hellenic Association of Urban and Regional Planners (SEPOX) and as a member of the ExCo of the European Council of Spatial Planners (ECTP-CEU).