Nicolas Ayoub

Intidisciplinary designer, architect, and strategist

Nicolas Ayoub is an antidisciplinary designer, architect, and strategist. He was a Selected Scholar at the Norman Foster Foundation - Re-materializing Housing Workshop, supported by the Holcim Foundation and held in Madrid in 2021.

Last updated: November 19, 2021 Cambridge, MA, USA

Nicolas Ayoub is an intidisciplinary designer, architect, and strategist.

Currently, he works at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he helps in community design experiences for Wikipedia and other wiki projects. Previously, he was a researcher in human-computer interaction at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab’s City Science, where his research focused on the relationships between human behaviour and spatial configuration.

Trained as an architect in Paris, Ayoub graduated with a master’s degree in design and technology from Harvard University, as a Dean’s Merit scholar and as a Sachs fellow.

He was a Selected Scholar at the Norman Foster Foundation - Re-materializing Housing Workshop, supported by the Holcim Foundation and held in Madrid in 2021.