Shrine people
shrine is shaped by people who take responsibility for how technology engages with memory, identity, and lived experience.
This is the team, partners, and advisors who contribute their work, perspective, and care to the project.
Team
The core team responsible for the vision, research direction, and day-to-day development of shrine.
Gabriella Chihan Stanley (AT-ES/PY-SY-UK)
Project Lead · Behavioural Systems Designer
Project Lead of shrine and behavioural systems designer working at the intersection of digital humanism, ethical AI, and lived experience across cultures.
Axel Dietrich (AT/DE)
Technical Lead · Creative Technologist
Technical director and systems architect behind shrine’s infrastructure. Focused on scalable, secure, and future-proof participatory technologies.
Alina Kadlubsky (DE)
spatial computing XR research
XR researcher at University of Applied Sciences Mittweida and Managing Director of Open AR Cloud Europe gUG, working on spatial computing, standards, and human-centered XR.
Philipp Thayer
XR Developer & Technical Implementation
XR & spatial computing developer with a strong full-stack mindset, supporting shrine’s technical implementation across immersive systems and supporting infrastructures.
Michael Hochreiter
Full-Stack & XR Developer
Developer working on shrine’s core systems and immersive components. Focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure that keeps the project effective, stable and coherent.
Sabine Trettensteiner-Schuff
Project Coordination & Research Support
Project coordinator supporting shrine through research coordination, documentation, and collaborative processes across participation and operations.
Partners
Organizations and institutions collaborating with shrine across research, culture, and technology.
Sabina Rosenbergová (CZ-IT/NL)
Cultural & Gendered Heritage and Religious Spaces
Cultural heritage scholar at the University of Groningen, researching museums, religious spaces, and gendered heritage transformations across Europe.
Ina Pervan-Al Soqauer (AT/BA)
migration inclusion and belonging
Co-founder and Managing Director of Fremde werden Freunde in Vienna, shaping encounter-based programs that support participation and belonging in a migration-shaped society. Works across mentoring, education, volunteering, and pathways into work.
Anya Naumova
Migration Youth Heritage, Local Identity, and Belonging
Researcher and cultural practitioner working on migration, youth, and heritage, studying how belonging and local identity shift through everyday narratives in peripheral regions.
Alberta Sinani (AT/XK)
diaspora memory and archives
Cultural practitioner working with the Kosovo-Albanian diaspora across Europe, focusing on memory, archives, and community-based practices at the intersection of social design and psychology.
Audrey Kodjo (AT-FR/BJ)
diaspora creatives community
Project implementation and monitoring specialist working in international development. Founder of Diaspora Creatives, supporting diaspora creators and cultural entrepreneurs in Europe through community, visibility, and digital storytelling.
Bistra Kumbaroska (AT/MK)
social innovation and regenerative business
Social innovator and entrepreneur supporting organisations and institutions in building regenerative, socially responsible innovation across Europe and beyond.
Airí Dordas Perpinyà (ES)
data storytelling and social impact
Synthetic Memories Lead at Domestic Data Streamers, working at the intersection of data, AI, storytelling, and memory with a focus on social rights and participation.
Eveline Wandl-Vogt
Participatory & Cultural Innovation
Researcher and participatory designer bringing art-driven innovation into collective memory work. Focuses on care-based, inclusive approaches to knowledge creation.
Marcela Torres Heredia (AT/COL)
Decolonial Knowledge and Participatory Anthropology
Anthropology researcher and activist at the University of Vienna, working on decolonial knowledge, feminism, and participatory approaches to memory and heritage.
Elian Carsenat (FR)
Bias Detection in AI Systems
Founder of NamSor, building name-based inference and bias-detection tools that support fairer data systems across cultures and languages.
Advisory Board
An international group of experts offering strategic guidance, critical perspective, and domain expertise to support shrine’s research direction and responsible development.
Katerina Cizek (CAN/CZ)
Co-Creation & Documentary Futures
Peabody- and Emmy-winning documentarian; Co-Founder/Artistic Director at MIT Open Documentary Lab. Leads collective creation methods bridging documentary, journalism, and emergent tech.
Sam Hunter Magee
Creativity & Social Impact Entrepreneurship
Director of Creativity & Entrepreneurship at Harvard College’s Lemann Program. Builds communities at the intersection of creativity, entrepreneurship, and social impact.
Pablo Garcia Tello (CH / ES)
Knowledge Transfer & EU Innovation
Section Head at the CERN EU Office; former CERN Knowledge Transfer Liaison Officer. Expert in EU innovation programmes, funding strategy, and knowledge transfer.
Stephanie Meisl (AT)
creative AI storytelling
Media artist and co-founder of D#AVANTGARDE, working across film, installation, and creative AI. Builds public literacy and debate around what AI changes in culture, authorship, and identity.
Romi Mikulinsky (NL-IL/FI)
Participatory Futures Design and AI
Design strategist and game designer shaping participatory tools at the intersection of ethics, AI, and immersive futures for cities and institutions.
Puja Modha (UK / IN)
AI governance and data protection
Commercial, data protection, and AI lawyer at Aria Grace Law, advising on responsible design and governance of data-driven systems with a focus on trust, accountability, and compliance.