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Mustapha El Moussaoui is an architect and urbanist and currently Assistant Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. He received his PhD from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia in 2020. Mustapha has been involved in educational courses across Lebanon, China, Czech Republik, Germany, and Italy. Moreover, he has been engaged professionally in the domain with structures and competitions built and won all over the world. Mustapha’s research centers on the phenomenological investigation of complex socio-cultural dynamics within urban contexts. Concurrently, he engages with the theoretical foundations of the relationship between architecture and artificial intelligence, while also working on enclosing the hallucinatory gap, between machine-generated outputs and human architects, from a practice/educational-based perspective.