Severino Alfonso, Assistant Professor, College of Architecture and the Built Environment, TJU; co-directs the Synesthetic Research and Design Lab, where he partners with self-advocacy communities to build knowledge around all-inclusive spatial experiences. His work has been exhibited in venues such as the Venice Biennial, the Trajan Market Museum in Rome, the Municipal Theater of Piraeus in Athens, and the IE Creativity Center in Segovia. He holds an MSAAD from Columbia University in NYC and two MS from the ETSA Madrid and is a PhD Candidate at TJU researching the effects of interactive art and embodied therapeutic environments on Autistic Adolescents.