Yannis Mantzaris is a designer, artist, and researcher based in Athens, Greece. His interdisciplinary practice operates at the intersection of art, design, critical theory, and cultural analysis, exploring how climate, politics, and material infrastructures shape contemporary life. Through installations, moving image, objects, and participatory encounters, Mantzaris investigates the visible and invisible systems that mediate collective experience from urban environments and economies to ecological and migratory flows. His work unfolds as both critical and poetic practice, revealing the frictions, contradictions, and negotiations that define the everyday. Engaging scales that range from the local to the planetary, Mantzaris constructs speculative frameworks that invite reflection and imagination. For him, design functions as both a mode of inquiry and a tool for envisioning alternative futures spaces where narrative, politics, and collective agency converge. He studied physics, product design and holds MA Geo-design from DAE.