NOMADWAYS TEAM
Meet our core team, say hi to Alex, Hélène & Ilaria!
ALEXANDRA NIKOLOVA (ÅL NIK)
Our Ål Nik [Alexandra Nikolova // Александра Николова] is an artist, designer, and facilitator. She experiments with mediums such as visual, digital, and sound art. Ål recently finished her Master’s programme in Fine Art and Media Design: Experimental Publishing at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. In the context of her master's research, she aimed at finding accessible entry points for other visual makers to use sound in their research and artistic work. In her practice, she weaves diverse lines of work and disciplines - artistic research, collaborative practices exploration, publishing, documentation, and addressing socially-charged themes with a mixture of mediums.
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HÉLÈNE CAVAIGNAC
Our Hélène is a pedagogic artivist ! Indeed, for many years she worked as a Project Coordinator in NGOs involved in the non-formal education workshops and she has been a non-formal education free-lance trainer for 5 years. Passionate about the performing arts (pantomime, clown, masks, impro, costume), she uses it as tools to develop critical thought to lead to empowerment. The exploration of new ways of learning is her keystone, she has developed original training courses based on self-directed training and learning experiences. Her involvement in European mobility programs for fifteen years led her to join the Nomadways team. She also works in the professional training field, where she gives sociology courses to social and youth workers.
ILARIA FRESA
Our Ilaria is a visual facilitator engaged to spread the use of visual language as a tool to support the learning processes. Her mission is to help people to explore their full potential and support groups to develop projects and focus on the implementation. As a social researcher, she graduated in Political Science with a Master of Art in communication and sociology of Migration, she conducted a number of researches concerning gender and refugees’ empowerment - focused on financial education and family balance and savings - within European projects. As an expert in cooperative learning methods and visual facilitation, she designed supervised and coordinated several non-formal education trainings for Italian local institutions educational organisations international agencies and NGOs.