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Oto Nováček is an Urban Designer and Researcher from Slovakia currently based in Bratislava. During his studies he managed to attend several international projects connected to contemporary urban challenges, urban research and participatory planning in Belgium, Turkey, Germany, and Slovakia.  In 2016 he was researching informal practices of “Arrival city” in Hamburg and subsequent integration processes of immigrants into German system. In 2017 he lectured at JKUAT University in Nairobi on the topic of Slum upgrading, and later he acted as an advisor for urbanisation at Permanent mission of Slovakia to the United Nations in New York. Further he was actively engaged in research and design of social housing for Roma populace in Slovakia. Currently he is working at the intersection of practice and research at Atrium studio on the topic of collaborative creation of public spaces and autonomous urbanisation.

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Civil Engineering at STU in Bratislava, division Architecture. At present he works as a PhD student at the Department of Architecture at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. In his dissertation he deals with a sustainable aspect of renewal, more specifically the influence of intermediate space on energy efficiency. He has worked with several well-known architects in his practice. At the same time, he has successfully participated in different architectural competitions in a couple with Ing. arch. et Ing. Ema Kiabova. Together set up an architectural studio ER Atelier.