Elena Karpilova is an art critic, designer, curator, head of the School of Architectural Thinking for Children. She is founder and owner of the KARPILOVA jewellery brand. Founder of the Minsk Design Week, curator of projects and expositions in Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, France. She graduated in painting at the the Minsk State Art College, and in comparative art at the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts.