Jana Revedin is a successful architect and holds the Professorship of Architecture and Design at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. Born in Constance, Germany she was first trained as a cabinetmaker. Later, she studied architecture and urban planning in Buenos Aires and Milan.

In 1996 she founded her own architectural practice, which specializes in sustainable architecture and urban renewal.

She has been guest professor at Milan Polytechnic, Federico II University Naples and Umea University and is the author of numerous publications on contemporary architectural theory. Moreover, she is a sought-after key speaker at Symposiums on Sustainable Development, Participative Cross-disciplinary Processes and Interactive Pedagogy. She lectures in German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.

At her TEDxKlagenfurt speech "Empowerment by Design: zero-energylights for Cairo´s slums" she shows us an example on how sustainable living environments can be successfully implemented and how much creativity is released through measures like Energy-zero-design and recycling.

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