PhD Candidate / Researcher in Museology Research Lab, Ionian University
72 Ioannou Theotoki St. Corfu 49131, mob: +306976368159
email: alexandra6891@gmail.com
Alexandra Aikaterini Andrianou is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Museology Research Laboratory of the Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology at the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, under the supervision of Professor Georgios Papaioannou. She holds a degree in Landscape Architecture from the Technological Educational Institute of Epirus and a Master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Management and New Technologies – Museology from the Ionian University.
Her research focuses on cultural landscape management through information and communication technologies (ICTs), museology, collective memory, and the application of digital technologies in the interpretation, management, and development of cultural landscapes. Her doctoral research, entitled “Cultural landscape management using information and communication technologies: the case of the martyr village of Kommeno in Arta, Greece”, examines the role of ICTs in the documentation, interpretation, and sustainable management of cultural landscapes associated with memory and trauma.
Alexandra has participated in several national and international research projects. She is a researcher in the project “Museum flow and satisfaction – Big data protocols for personalized museum experience (FluSeUM)”, supervised by Professor Georgios Papaioannou and conducted at the Museology Research Laboratory of the Ionian University with the support of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) (2025–present). She is also a research member of the IFLA Working Programme 11 – International Landscape Convention, coordinated by the International Federation of Landscape Architects (2025–present).
She has led and participated in projects focusing on cultural and natural heritage, collective memory, and sustainable development, including the “Encouraging cultural and natural heritage – Friedens Park Project” in Kommeno, Arta (2022–2023), and the Erasmus+ project “Sustainable Development and Memory of the Past in a Research Project: Rural Area”, which involved academic exchange and fieldwork in Germany (2023).
Her research work has been published in conference proceedings and peer-reviewed academic journals. Selected publications include studies on cultural landscapes and big data in qualitative research, cognitive processes of environmental perception in open-air archaeological contexts, decision-making processes in museum landscape design, and the role of botanic gardens within cultural landscapes.
Publications:
Andrianou, A.A. (2024). Cultural landscapes and big data in qualitative research: The case study of the martyr village of Kommeno, in Arta, Greece. In G. Papaioannou & M. Damigos (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Museum Big Data (MBD 2024), Athens, Greece, November 18, 2024. Ionian University, Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology.
Micheli, A., & Andrianou, A.A.(2023). Cognitive processes of the environmental perception: A methodological approach to the semantic aesthetics of open-air archaeological contexts. In E3S Web of Conferences (Vol. 436, p. 06006). EDP Sciences.
Andrianou, A.A., Papaioannou, G., & Politis, K. D. (2022). Decision-Making Processes in Landscaping the Garden of the Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth, Dead Sea, Safi, Jordan. In Conservation of Architectural Heritage (pp. 501-515). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Andrianou, A.A., & Papaioannou, G. (2019, April). Cultural landscapes and botanic gardens: the case of mon-repos garden in Corfu Island, Greece. In Cultural Sustainable Tourism: A Selection of Research Papers from IEREK Conference on Cultural Sustainable Tourism (CST), Greece 2017 (pp. 99-108). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Research interests: Cultural landscapes, sustainable landscape planning, museum exterior spaces, collective memory, WWII martyr village landscapes, WWII memorial landscapes, information and communication technologies (ICTs)