Kristien Ring is an architect, curator and principal of AA PROJECTS-engaged in the production of interdisciplinary projects on future oriented themes in the realm of architecture and urban planning and currently commissioned by i.a. the German Federal Foundation for Baukultur.

She is the author and editor of the publication "SELF MADE CITY. Berlin, Self-initiated Urban Living and Architectural Interventions", 2013 and "URBAN LIVING, Strategies for the future", 2015, JovisVerlag. Currently Visiting Prof. at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Assistant Prof. at the TU-Braunschweig, Germany, for Architectural Design. Kristien Ring was the founding Director of the DAZ German Center for Architecture in Berlin (2004 -2011), the co-founder of the gallery Suitcase Architecture (2001 - 2005) and continues to curate and present exhibitions on current architectural topics. A registered architect in Germany since 1998, Kristien comes from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the USA and has been living in Berlin since 1991.