Yasmine Abbas is a French DPLG architect, holds a Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS 2001) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Doctor of Design (DDes 2006) from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

In 1995, while pursuing an internship at the UNESCO, United Nations, Education, Science and Culture Organization, she realizes the importance of education and technology for a culture of peace. Since, the notions of cultural encounters and mobilities have driven her designs and critical inquiries. She aims to advance the social and cultural by integrating technology with design. At MIT, her interactions with the Design Inquiry and Intelligent Kinetic System groups lead her to research the figure of “supermodernity”, the neo-nomad. At Harvard she focused on how neo-nomads, digitally geared people on the move, reclaim a sense of belonging to places in the age of multiple mobilities and digital technologies.

At Wentworth Institute of technology, she taught the spring 2007 seminar: Digital + Mobilities which led to the investigation of the freedom trail through codes: DiMo project. She worked as a senior consultant at ReD and now is the Founding Director of PanUrbanIntelligence.

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Architecte française (France, DPLG 1997), Yasmine ABBAS est titulaire d’un Master of Science in Architecture Studies du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Etats-Unis, SMArchS 2001) et d’un doctorat, le Doctor of Design de la Harvard University Graduate School of Design (Etats-Unis, DDes 2006). Ses recherches, ses conférences et ses publications portent sur les stratégies adoptées par les néo-nomades — population aux mobilités multiples : mentales, physiques et digitales — pour recréer, au moyen des technologies numériques, un sentiment d’appartenance aux lieux et aux espaces. Elle est la directrice-fondatrice de PanUrbanIntelligence, un bureau d’études et de conseil en innovation pour l’environnement urbain. Elle est actuellement en poste à Abu Dhabi, aux Emirats Arabes Unis où elle travaille en tant que sociologue de l’environnement pour la création de la première éco-cité au monde, Masdar City.