IASPIS expert visit in Stockholm and Växjö, 12 – 17 Maj, 2025

Christina Skarpari is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and curator with yearslong experience in socially engaged practices in the field of art, in the NGO sector and in higher education. Since 2013 she has founded Xarkis NGO and Xarkis Festival as a design assembly and creative reaction against the socio-economic crisis of the time. She has led more than 30 projects to increase community engagement, participatory methodologies and innovation in contemporary art and design.

Christina Skarpari

She is currently working on her PhD at Central Saint Martins on developing a co-design methodology to engage endangered communities of craft heritage and works with film, photography and anthropology. She also works as a facilitator and lecturer in collaborative intersectional environmentalism under the Creative Unions unit at Central Saint Martins.