Yara Feghali
Lecturer
Yara is a French and Lebanese architectural designer working at the intersection of architecture education, transmedia, and immersive technologies. She is the creative director of Folly Feast Lab co-founded with Viviane El Kmati. Her studio is based in Santa Monica and creates visually-led immersive and interactive experiences to address present social and urban themes using AI, Game Engines, and 3D scanning technology. Yara is a faculty at UCLA A.UD teaching design studio and technology seminars at the graduate level. She has taught at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, SAC in Frankfurt, Bartlett in London, and ALBA in Beirut.
Related topics |
Technology, Mixed Reality |
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| M.Sc. in Design Theory and Pedagogy, DI, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) |
| M.A. in Architecture and Aesthetic Practice, Städelchule Architecture Class (SAC) |
| M.Sc. in Architecture, Lebanese Academy of Fine-Arts (ALBA) |
| 2021 | Spatial Fabulations, co-editor of the upcoming issue of the Städelchule Architecture Journal around the theme of Virtual Reality |
| 2020 | #TalkAboutBeirut, co-curator for exhibition about Beirut in the aftermath of August 4th explosion |
| 2020 | Be.Longing, immersive experience by FollyFeastLab for LA exhibition Every.Thing.Changes 2020 |
| 2019 | Resisting exactitude, work in collaboration with artist Iulia Nistor, at the Beirut Biennial for the image (BIB) with Albedo Creative Platform. |
| 2019 | Spatial Fabulations & Other Tales of Representation in Virtual Reality, VR installation at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt curated with Johan Bettum and Stefan Wieland with the Städelchule Architecture Class |
| 2018 | Narratives in Boundless Space, VR Installation co-curated with Johan Bettum and Stefan Wieland as part of Goethe Institute’s program Performing Architecture 2018 Venice Architecture Biennial, with the Städelchule Architecture Class |
| 2017 | Distinction for Postgraduate Master of Science in Architecture, Design Theory and Pedagogy (SCI-Arc) |
| 2016 | The Real Kiss Exhibition in collaboration with artist Iulia Nistor, Johanne Frankfurt |
| 2013 | Alexis Boutros Award from the Lebanese Academy of Fine-Arts |
| 2013 | Bahaa El Dine Bsat Award of Excellence in Architecture from the Lebanese Order of Architects and Engineers |
- Leaky L.A. One Santa Fe Apartments
- Leaky L.A. VR app
- Leaky L.A. in Downtown Arts District
- Spatial Fabulations & Other Tales of Representation in Virtual Reality
- Alive
- Narratives in Boundless Space