Since joining the Publica team in September 2018, Gaia has been taking part in major public realm vision and strategy schemes within central London, including for the Oxford Street District, while also contributing to the development of policy guidance documents and calls for actions.

Gaia is also an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, where she runs a design studio in BA Spatial Practices in London, and works as a Guest Lecturer at Umeå School of Architecture in Sweden.

Gaia holds a Master’s in Architecture from Umeå School of Architecture. Her thesis focused on mass displacement and migration and eventually formed an action-research project that was nominated for the RIBA Silver Medal and was awarded in competitions, publications and exhibitions.

During her BA, she spent a year of exchange study in India, at C.E.P.T. University, Ahmedabad. In India she was granted a scholarship to conduct a research project that resulted in the production of a short documentary investigating the power structures within tobacco production in rural Gujarat and its relation to snus consumption in Sweden.