Project Leader: 

Alula Tesfay Asfha, Ph.D. Asst. Prof. at School of Architecture & Urban Planning MU/ Frobenius Institute, Goethe University of Frankfurt. 

Academic Collaborators:

Binyam Fitsum Arefayne. Project Academic Assistant, Urban 

Planner, GIS expert, School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Mekelle University, Ethiopia. 

Friyat Asgedom. Project Academic Assistant. Archaeologist, Toulouse 

University, France. 

Gebremeskel  Teweldemedhin. School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Mekelle University, Ethiopia. .  

Selemun Kahsay. PG program coordinator, Architectural Design Technologies program. Mekelle University, Ethiopia. .  

Birhane Aregawi. School of Civil Engineering. Mekelle University, Ethiopia. . 

Yirga Asefa. Museum senior expert, Tigray Bureau of Culture and Tourism. 

Habtom Teklay. anthropologist, dean of Institute of Paleoenvironment and Heritage Studies. Mekelle University, Ethiopia. 

Project Collaborators: 

Dr.Rumi Okazaki, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Shibaura Insititute of Technology, Japan. 

Dr. Nobuhiro Shimizu, Architectural and Urban Historian, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan.

Tesfahun Haddis, Film maker/visual anthropology, Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.

Selamawit Fthanegest Abrha, Structural/Material Engineer, Frankfurt, Germany. 

Dr..Samuel Kidane, Historian, University of Erfurt, Germany. 

Dr. Ryo Higuchi, Architectural Historian, Photogrammetry Expert, Nagoya University, Japan.

Taddesse Girmay,  Architectural Historian & Conservator, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

Dr. Wolbert Smidt, Ethnohistorian, Schiller University of Jena, Germany 

Student Collaborators: 

Selam Gebrekristos, MEXT MSc. scholar, Shibaura Institute of Technolog/ Mekelle University, Japan/Ethiopia. 

Melat Atsbeha, M. Eng. candidate in Structural Engineering, Mekelle University, Ethiopia.