Maria Charneco (1975) is an architect and PhD candidate. She graduated from the Escola d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) and holds a Master’s degree in Advanced Studies in Architectural Projects from the UPC. She combines research with professional and teaching activity and has been a content advisor in documentary filmmaking. Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is currently writing her dissertation on Josep Lluis Sert, and teaching at the Elisava - Escola de Disseny i Enginyeria. Maria is co-founder of MAIO Architects, an architectural office based in Barcelona and New York that works on spatial systems that allow variation and change through time. MAIO Architects is the Installation concept author of Tree Nursery - 1306 Plants for Timișoara project.