Nataliia Iskovych is an architect, futurist, and strategist of systemic transformations working at the intersection of spatial sovereignty and aerospace governance. With a professional background in architecture, she approaches territory not merely as a built environment, but as a multilayered infrastructure — spanning land, airspace, and orbit. At the center of her research are questions of power exercised through control over the sky, mobility, and technological regimes in times of war and global instability.
She is the author of the innovative course “Decolonizing the Sky”, developed for the Kharkiv School of Architecture. The course offers a new lens on airspace as a politically charged and historically burdened domain — shaped by imperial practices, military-industrial systems, and regulatory asymmetries. Through tools of strategic foresight and critical theory, Natalia cultivates students’ capacity to work with dual-use technologies, infrastructures of sovereignty, and the future governance of atmospheric territories.
Natalia earned her Master’s degree in Architecture from Lviv Polytechnic National University and a Master’s degree in Leadership and Global Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management (USA), where she focused on transformational leadership and systems thinking.
Her professional work is combined with active civic engagement. As a member of the Global Shapers Community (World Economic Forum), she facilitates international dialogues on resilience, democracy, and the future of Ukraine, initiates leadership projects, and develops platforms for civic collaboration.
Her approach affirms architecture as a discipline of the future — one capable not only of responding to contemporary challenges, but of shaping the infrastructures upon which Ukraine’s sovereignty in the 21st century will depend.
She joined the School’s team in 2026.