Dr Sandra Piesik is an award-winning architect,
author, and scientist specialising in a diverse range
of subjects from art and design to the implementation
of global sustainable legislation, nature-based
solutions, innovation, technology transfer, and
contemporary adaptation of tradi-tional knowledge.

She is the founder of 3 ideas, an Amsterdam-based
consultancy, a member of the New European
Bauhaus EU initiative, an advisor to UNFCCC,
and a former senior consultant to UNFCCC, UNCCD, and UN-HABITAT Global Solutions Division on territorial integration.

Her diverse global engagements range from art and
design projects, leading research & devel-opment
initiatives, international lectures, judging competitions,
the nomination of awards, and collaboration with the
European Union entities.

Trained and qualified as an architect in the United
Kingdom at the Architectural Association, London,
The University of Portsmouth, and The Bartlett, UCL,
London, she has also obtained two Masters in Art
and Design at the University of Arts in Poznan,
Poland with German Bauhaus traditions. Owning to
the benefits of almost 600 years of design education
in total, Dr Piesik initiated several pioneering projects
on her base-line research on date palm leaf
architecture in the United Arab Emirates across
80,000 km² of the Rub Al Khali desert which was
then leading to pioneering regenerative design and
technolo-gy transfer for date palm use in architecture,
as well as product design.

Global events: UNCCD Cancun, Mexico’ UNFCCC
COP22 Marrakech, Morocco; UNFCCC COP23
Bonn, Germany; UNFCCC COP24 Katowice, Poland;
UNFCCC COP25 Madrid, Spain; UNFCCC COP26
Glasgow, UK; UNFCCC COP27 Sharm El Shaikh,
Egypt; UNESCO Meishan, China; UN-HABITAT
WUF10, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Climate Week, New York
City, Dubai Expo 2020, The European Space Agency, Global Science Technology and Innovation
Conference G-STIC

Universities: The Bartlett School of Architecture,
UCL, London; Delft University of Technology (TU
Delft); Oxford Brookes University; Paris-Sorbonne
University; The Independent School of the City
Rotterdam; The Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP)
London South Bank University; The Pratt University
Brooklyn, New York; The University of Bergamo
The University of Cambridge (CISL); The University
College London; The University of Florence
The University of Portsmouth; The University of
Westminster, London

Others: Asia House London; The British Museum,
BuroHappold Engineering; RGS-ING; RAI;
Engineering Forum of Nigerians (UK); Le Murate,
Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Florence;
International Red Cross