Eduardo Cassina is an accomplished architect, urban researcher, and professor with a passion for sustainable, community-focused design. With an educational background that includes studies in Earth Architecture, Museology, and Urban Studies, he has spent his career exploring new ways to bring people and nature together while contributing to circular economies, alternative master planning ideas for shrinking cities, and communal self-reliance. Cassina has worked as a curator, VIP art consultant, and exhibitions designer at prestigious institutions such as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Art Basel, before co-founding METASITU, an urban research and strategy collective. He has since held academic positions at both Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, and Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, where he currently coordinates Year 2 of the International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA).