Lucy Aboonour

Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab, Space Enabled Group

Member of AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee (SATC)

laboonour@spacearchitect.org

BACKGROUND

Lucy brings a wealth of expertise in architecture, product, and industrial design engineering. Her career is marked by a dedication to multi-disciplinary projects of significant scale and complexity, where she has consistently demonstrated a deep understanding of design integration, materials science, and manufacturing processes.

Lucy approaches her work with a user-centric perspective, emphasizing the importance of human-centered design, especially in the pioneering contexts of shaping the future of space exploration. Her approach is informed by a deep interest in the intersection of science, technology, and society, and her academic background in architecture and sociocultural anthropology.

EDUCATION

Lucy holds a Masters of Arts in Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where her Dissertation – Space in the Context of Form, was conducted in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab.

B.Architecture, concentration: Morphology, Pratt Institute

FURTHER INFORMATION

https://anthropology.columbia.edu/content/lucy-aboonour-form-lucy-zakharova

https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/space-enabled/overview/