Τμήμα Εσωτ. Αρχιτεκτονικής – ΔΙ.ΠΑ.Ε

Dr Paraskevi Kertemelidou is a qualified Architect Engineer (Department of Architects AUTH), and Interior Architect (Department of Interior Architecture, West Attica University). She has a Master's Degree in Museology (D.P.M.S., AUTH.) and is a Doctor of Architectural Engineering (School of Architectural Engineering, Section III Architectural Language, Communication & Design, Metsovio Polytechnic School of Athens)

Her doctoral thesis is part of the cognitive area of ​​museum and exhibition design theory. It constructs mental schemes for the readability and description of the everyday object and the modern museum, important fields of the research, educational and practical problem-solving of architectural design. It undertakes an interpretative scheme of material culture through the understanding of the history and analysis of the utilitarian object and the history and theory of the museum institution and the evolution of the museum institution. The transitions of the industrial utilitarian object's identity as a result of its selection and re-meaning processes in each museum exhibition condition are investigated and highlighted, and the importance of this process for the industrial utilitarian object's contribution to the formation of the identities of social subjects.

She is an Assistant Professor, specializing in "Interior Architecture and Useful Objects" at the Department of Interior Architecture of the International Hellenic University, teaching the courses: "History and Theory of Design", "Architectural Design of Cultural Spaces and Exhibitions", "Architectural Design and Reuse of Buildings" and "Furniture & Object Design"

She also teaches at the Film Department of the School of Fine Arts of AUTH, as an Assistant Professor in accordance with the Decree N4009/2011 and as a teacher in accordance with the Degree 407/80.

Paraskevi Kertemelidou has additional teaching work, in the form of independent teaching, co-teaching, thematic lectures and supervision of postgraduate theses, in the postgraduate study programs "Museology - Cultural Management", "Educational Sciences" of A.U.TH. and "Architecture - Spatial Planning" at the Metsovio Polytechnic School of Athens.

Also in the postgraduate program "Management of Cultural Units" of the Open University and in the two-year postgraduate program "Interior Architecture: Sustainable and Social Design" of the University of West Attica.

• Responsible for the thesis process
• Member of the Student Career Advisory Committee of IHU
• Member of department assembly
• Member of the contract teachers evaluation committee
• Member of the qualifying examination evaluation committee

Her scientific interests focus on museology with an emphasis on contemporary museum architecture, the semantic and spatial design of exhibitions and the dialectical relationship between artistic creation and industrial design. 
She participates in the workshop "Design, Architecture of Interiors and Audiovisual Documentation" of the School of Applied Arts and Culture of Wet Attica University. She has participated in pan-Hellenic and international architectural competitions, receiving distinctions and awards.

Her applied architectural work includes: exhibition architecture-museological studies, special buildings (shopping centers, factories, hotels, shops, conference centers), urban houses and residential complexes, country houses, studies of the organization of interior spaces, studies of the organization & configuration of outdoor spaces, impressions - restoration of buildings and ensembles.

She has taken part in research and scientific programs with topics of mainly cultural interest. She has published in Greek and foreign magazines and has participated as an author in collective volumes, exhibition catalogs, etc.

She has done post-doctoral research in the Archive of the collection of modern/contemporary art and furniture of the Telloglio Institute of Arts, A.U.TΗ. and in the Archives of the historical/exhibition collection of theatrical costumes of the State Theater of Northern Greece.

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