Chrystalleni Loizidou, PhD

Ardhanarishvar
Shiv-Shakti
Finding meaning through research and policy in education, community care, art, and freedom-respecting technology.
Learning companion with training in forest school, Steiner pedagogy and playlistening.

2025
Chrystalleni Loizidou is an interdisciplinary researcher, educator, and artistic practitioner working at the intersection of tech policy, public infrastructure, and critical pedagogy. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies specialising in public art and media theory and is currently affiliated with Brno University of Technology and the NGI0 initiative. Her work spans policy advocacy, FLOSS education, and artistic research exploring post-capitalist and regenerative models of learning, technology, and governance.
Chrystalleni designs and curates participatory spaces—including the Free/Libre Technology, Art and the Commons Unconference (2019), the Cyprus Tech Policy Unconference (2025), THATCamp Cyprus (2011) and hack66.info (2013-2019)—that challenge extractive systems and reimagine public infrastructure in terms of care. She is especially interested in developing educational and policy frameworks that centre ecological sustainability, cultural pluralism, and digital commons stewardship.

Links
writer in withdrawal: allonan.com
situationist (g)host / cooperative community facilitator- εμψυχώτρια: eimaste.net
information ethics: hack66.info /  cynaxis.org 
art: reaphrodite.org / someonehastodothis

Other
mastodon
neenster
CV
LinkedIn
academia.edu
facebook
twitter
diaspora

2022
My core skill-set has had to do with care and the study of creativity (curation, education through art, and a PhD in Cultural Studies focusing on public art and conflict transformation). I cultivate a quest for beauty and meaning while being sensitive to the potential for community connection in order for groups to flourish. I have previously applied myself to developing and coordinating big and small internationally funded projects, teaching digital visual literacy, design history, and cultural studies courses at different universities, setting up cooperative community projects with a focus on libre technologies and participatory art, and organising hackathons and unconferences to connect technologists, makers, and artists. Since 2018 I have been retraining in care work and early years pedagogy and writing about high-tech versus tech-free trends in contemporary education. I model and cultivate in myself what I’d like to have around me: versatile design and making-skills, emotional intelligence and non-violent communication, community through sharing and connection with nature. I am also always working on writing, which I see as a world-building, transformational craft.

2017
Chrystalleni Loizidou writes with the tools of a cultural theorist and usually with more of a sense of humour than this! She has an interest in media-theory and an academic focus in art politics. She has been thinking and writing about the case of Cyprus for years, finding that this is as good a place as any to start figuring out the bigger things.

2015
This is an edit to exit this page’s default state, because getting rid of it would be more trouble: a WordPress limitation. Which brings it home, suddenly, that getting around limitations are what this site is about: unnecessarily self-imposed ones. And towards a way of thinking about moving seamlessly through them, because standing against them is to keep re-construing them, and I realise (as late as March 2015) that there’s no time for that, really.

you could also look at
http://someonehastodothis.net
http://reaphrodite.org
http://hack66.info
http://eimaste.net