Iason N. Paterakis is an Architect-Engineer, Media Artist, and researcher based in California. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Media, Arts & Technology (MAT) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a member of transLAB, a trans-disciplinary laboratory supervised by Vice Chair Professor Marcos Novak. Since 2012, he has been working as a researcher at the Transformable Intelligent Environments Laboratory (TIE Lab) at the School of Architectural Engineering TUC, under the Vice Dean, Professor Konstantinos-Alketas Oungrinis. His research is focused on developing methodologies, mechanisms, and know-how for designing and fabricating paradigms of speculative augmented environments, with a strong emphasis on hybrid AI-driven environments. He has been actively involved in workshops, exhibitions, and international interdisciplinary conferences including SIGGRAPH 2023 /"The Synaptic Time Tunnel" funded by AUTODESK, Erasmus XR - Onassis Symposium /"The art and design of XR", Culture and Computing /HCII 2020, International Astronautical Congress /IAC2015, "EcoRedux 02: Design manuals for a dying planet" in Disseny Hub Barcelona, among others. Currently, he is an Artist-in-Residence at the Santa Barbara Center for the Arts and Sciences.