Eirini Lampiri

Eirini Lampiri is a Greek XR experience designer, creative producer, and practice-based researcher based in the UK. With an interdisciplinary background in digital and interactive media, she explores the intersection of live performance, immersive theater, and cinematography with emerging technologies, focusing on virtual and extended realities (VR/XR) to craft human-centric immersive experiences.

Drawing on her earlier career as a set and costume designer, Eirini is passionate about the tactility and material nature of textures, textiles, and physical objects. Her practice blends materiality and virtuality to create multisensory hybrid experiences that encourage embodied interactions. In this way, participants are invited to remain consciously connected to their bodies and senses while navigating digital realms.

Eirini’s practice is rooted in co-design, working closely with cross-disciplinary creatives, researchers, technologists, and marginalized communities, including autistic, non-binary, and visually impaired participants. By placing accessibility and inclusivity at the heart of her process, she uses technology as a tool to question societal norms and foster community engagement. Her goal is to democratize emerging technologies, empowering underrepresented audiences to actively partake in shaping the digital futures currently monopolized by tech giants.

A long-term resident at Pervasive Media Studio in Watershed (Bristol) and a resident of the V2_Lab for Unstable Media (Rotterdam), Eirini also serves on the Advisory Board of the UK innovation program “MyWorld,” supporting the sustainable growth of the immersive tech sector in the West of England. In addition, over the past few years, she has collaborated with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute at the University of Bristol, where her practice-based research on fussing material and immaterial spaces explores inclusive, human-centric design that addresses key immersive tech industry challenges, such as VR inaccessibility, tech-induced social isolation, and bias in virtual content.

Eirini’s work has been recognized with consecutive nominations for the Best Use of XR award at TechSPARKS for “Is This My Body?” (2023) and “Cognition” (2022). Her projects have been showcased at renowned venues including Ars Electronica (Austria, 2024), Beyond Innovation Expo (Greece, 2022), Arnolfini (UK, 2021), and Bristol Beacon (UK, 2021).

Eirini Lampiri is an Onassis AiR Fellow for 2025/26 through the Technical Residencies program.