Meet this year's Experiments' Platform mentors!

You have until the 8th of June to apply and take part in the sixth season of the Experiments’ Platform ‘Affording Environments’. As the deadline approaches, we invite you to get to know the four mentors that will tutor participants this year.

Aušra Česnauskytė – Lithuanian artist and spatial designer based in the Netherlands. Her practice lies at the intersection of architecture, experimental urban research, storytelling, and performance. Her work is closely tied to themes of productivity and contemporary work culture, examining their links to sterile urban environments and climate emergencies.

Aušra co-initiates the Neo-futuristic Walks project – an urban laboratory that gathers a community of walkers to collectively speculate on new ways of urban coexistence. The project visits various cities and collaborates with a range of architecture, design, and art initiatives through a series of walkshops and performative tours. 

Ella Prokkola – a landscape architect based in Helsinki. Having graduated from Aalto University (FI) with additional studies at ENSP Versailles (FR), her work explores the impacts of the emerging post-anthropocentric paradigm in landscape architecture and the possibility to examine landscape narratives through the methodology of living arts. Recent work includes an ongoing research project in collaboration with Aalto University and Saari Residence, Finland (2022-), as well as research fellowships at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2024-2025) and ZK/U Berlin Center of Arts and Urbanistics (with Siiri Hänninen and Seela Pentikäinen, 2025). As an educator, she has taught landscape architecture and multispecies thinking at Aalto University and the Estonian Academy of Arts and conducted workshops for both students, professionals and citizens in the UK, Switzerland and Germany. She is a fellow of the IN SITU platform in season 2026-2027. 

Pablo Encinas Alonso – architect and independent researcher based in Gothenburg, Sweden. His enquiry lies at the intersection of spatial theory and practice, bridging art and architecture. Trained in both fields, he holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Gothenburg, Sweden, having previously graduated from the Architecture school at BA and MA levels in Madrid, Spain. Pablo has been an active member of the independent study group AIRC at SKOGEN, also in Gothenburg, since 2021, where he led a project focusing on spatial reading with practitioners from diverse fields. In 2024, he joined Trojan Horse, an autonomous educational platform based in Helsinki that organises summer schools, workshops, reading circles and live-action role-plays in the landscapes of design, architecture and art.

Ulla Alla – architect and spatial artist working in Estonia and Georgia. She is one of the founders of the GRBGKDS (Garbage Kids) collective in Tbilisi that focuses on carpentry and collectible furniture, attempting to transfer inherited meanings prevalent in real and imagined histories into succinct forms of furniture. Parallelly, she is one of the founders and curators of VARES – Valga Architecture Residency, a space that critically analyses and develops ways of creating architecture outside the mainstream market-driven logic. Ulla has been a freelance lecturer and tutor since 2018 at EKA and runs workshops both in Estonia and abroad. In addition to furniture making and curating, there is an ever-growing list of activities that sometimes combine or just exist parallelly to the two main projects: making wine, foraging (mushrooms and timber), farming, restoring old buildings, weaving fabrics, illustrating and so on.