Paris Marashi is an architect, design researcher, and digital media strategist. Her love for sculpture, painting, and design led her to pursue a B.S. degree in architecture from the Ohio State University, where she explored the conceptual, technical, artistic, and social aspects of architecture.

After college she moved to Iran to spend two years in business development, art direction, and public relations for the Investment Banking Group, which was later sold for $10million. She also coordinated discussions and events geared towards dialogue between Iranian architects and architects abroad, worked in collaboration with the British and Italian embassies, and promoted Iranian companies in Dubai, Bahrain, and Paris.

This bridge between countries made possible through online research and social media led her back to the US to pursue her masters degree at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she began to explore social media, documentary and video production and distribution, physical computing, and interaction design.

She also taught video shooting and editing, podcasting, and social media in Iran and the US, at high schools and at Xavier University.

Bridging communities while exploring the relationship between the physical and virtual embody the core of her design philosophy. As architecture reflects and expresses the world view of a given period, Paris follows how connected and networked space meet the physical and concrete, finds ways to bring people closer to the information they need, and last but not least, to one another.