Inês Laborinho graduated as an architect from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon in 2021, where she defended her master's thesis entitled: "Cinema as an Instrument of Knowledge about Architecture. Considerations on the architectural features present in the sets of Dystopian Films.". She is currently a PhD canditate at the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Her doctoral research in architecture focuses mainly on the study of Virtual Reality (VR); the Metaverse; Visionary Architecture and the Human Condition, and her doctoral thesis is entitled: "The Virtual Condition of Architecture. Critical Genealogy of Visionary and Virtual Architectures, and their active reflection in Architectural Culture". The current research for her doctoral thesis concerns the study and understanding of the potential of virtual spaces, designed in the metaverse by architects, and their influence on the design of so-called "real", physical, architectures and on the Architectural Culture. She is a collaborating researcher at the Center for Architecture Studies - from Territory to Design (CEARQ-TD). Her research interests focus mainly on the study of architectural spaces projected into the metaverse, and the consequent experience of these environments for humans. The fields of architectural theory, the theory of place and the phenomenology and ontology of architecture are also of interest to Inês Laborinho.