Ola A. Maged is a teaching assistant in the department of Architectural Engineering and Environmental Design at AASTMT smart village. She received her bachelor’s degree in 2019 from the same school and in January 2023, completed her master’s thesis titled: ‘The Global South’s Experience of the Institutionalisation of Northern Urban Planning Education: An Extensive Exploration of the Urban Planning Scene in Egypt’. She also assisted in the foundation of ARCHEO living lab, a research lab investigating cultural heritage sites and their digitisations. Additionally, Ola participated and won in several architectural competitions. She received the first prize in Dewan awards 2020, an honorable mention in Rifaat Chadiriji Awards 2020, and was a finalist in several competitions like ArchStorming 2021 and Kaira Looro 2022.