Or Ettlinger, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and former Associated Member of the Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory” at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

His education and experience span the fields of architecture, software engineering, digital imaging, information visualization, and theory of art and architecture. He authored the book The Architecture of Virtual Space and a series of ensuing articles, which formulate a consistent theory of virtuality, and study the history of architectural creations intended for pictorial mediums. He founded and leads the “Creativity Studio”, an interdisciplinary educational framework for expanding creative skills through teamwork on mind-bending design projects.

His current areas of interest are methodologies and neuroscience of artistic creativity, and the search for beauty in art and architecture.