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BIOGRAPHIES

ELENA LONGHIN, PhD, is an architect (OAPCC Venezia and ARB London) and researcher based between Venice and Delft, the Netherlands, working at the intersection of architecture, urbanism and political ecology. She holds a MArch and Ph.D from IUAV and graduated from the AA Landscape Urbanism Programme. She is a post-doc researcher in Urbanism and studio mentor (Transitional Territories) at TU Delft. As an architect she collaborated with Studio Secchi-Viganó and OMA, among others. She has taught at the AA, IUAV of Venice, EPFL in Lausanne, TU Delft, the Netherlands. Her work has been exhibited internationally as part of the Venice Biennale and the Milan Triennale, as well as in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Chile, Japan and Hong Kong. Elena’s research received commendations from the Manuel de Solà–Morales Award and from the Italian Ferraro Prize. She has been a member of the Habitat Research Centre at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, and is now an affiliated researcher of the THE NEW INSTITUTE – Center for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Since 2016, she is the Programme Head of the AA VS Terrain Lab.

LUCA IUORIO, PhD, graduated in architecture from IUAV University of Venice, where he also obtained a doctorate in urbanism. He is currently an assistant professor of spatial design of future deltaic systems in the faculty of Architecture and the Built environment at TU Delft, the Netherlands. His academic work ranges from the study of the territorial dimension of engineering infrastructures to the design of spatial interventions to adapt to climate change. Particularly interested in understanding and explaining how technology affects our society and shapes the places where we live, his scientific investigation makes use of physical modelling, scenario making, critical mapping, ethnographic fieldworks, archival research and site-specific designs.

LUCIA REBOLINO is an architect and research-based computational designer, currently working as a researcher at Forensic Architecture in London and as a teaching associate at Columbia University GSAPP. She conceives her practice as a space where different branches of science and design can conceptualise, critique, visualise and provoke new counter-cartography aesthetics. Lucia has also worked at the Center for Spatial Research in New York, exploring investigative projects through data visualisation. She has lectured at design schools, including Delft University of Technology, Architectural Association, Columbia GSAPP, and the Politecnico di Milano and Torino. Her writing has appeared in publications such as e-flux Architecture, ETH Delus and Routledge. She holds a Master of Architecture from the Politecnico di Torino and a Master of Science in Computational Design Practices from Columbia University, where she received an award for innovative use of computing media in design research.

AMINA CHOUAIRI is an Italian-Moroccan PhD student in Urbanism at Università Iuav di Venezia. She holds a Master of Science with honours in Landscape Architecture (TUDelft) and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture (Politecnico di Milano). Amina collaborated with several landscape and urban design firms such as Arup, Vogt and Openfabric. Since 2019, Amina has been researching the Venice Lagoon complex and contradictory transitional territory, exploring the debated relations among its cultures and natures. Together with fellows and collaborators, she has co-curated multiple outdoor explorations for cultural institutions (such as TBA21-Academy and Ocean Space, Istituto Svizzero di Roma and the Venice Design Biennale) and lagoon neophytes (international and local students and researchers) while presenting and mediating research contents through public programs and events. Amina co-runs How Do We Meet, a community project creating new women-led networks in Venice.

ANIELLA SOPHIE GOLDINGER is an interdisciplinary spatial researcher and educator at the Institute of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin. Her doctoral research is centred around oceanic hinterlands and the extended urban fabric of polar territories. Her work explores cartographic and fieldwork-based methodologies to critically investigate relationships and frictions within landscapes and their broader socio-cultural and geopolitical context. She holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture, specialising in Arctic and sub-Arctic territories, from the Oslo School of Architecture and a BA in architecture from the Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture.

COLLABORATORS

METAGOON is a film archive and research tool initiated by Matteo Stocco in 2015. It holds several testimonies of, around, and about the Venice Lagoon, where scientists, experts, professors and inhabitants navigate their understandings of the lagoon territory. Metagoon seeks to cast a light on the knowledge, traditions, transformations and contradictions of the lagoon ecosystem, creating a map in which borders are outlined by interviews, stories and silent observations.

Find out more at https://metagoon.net/it.

BARENA BIANCA was formed in the Summer of 2018 by Fabio Cavallari and Pietro Consolandi as a shirtwearing activist group in the Venetian Lagoon, striving to bring to light many of its ecological and sociological issues, adopting the barena (typical venetian salt marsh, essential to the survival of the city) as its emblem. Barena Bianaca is characterised by an anti-mimetic poetic approach, a willingly dysfunctional camouflage, refusing to disappear. It seeks to emerge in every situation, to be clearly visible, increasingly impossible to ignore. Its work mostly happens in public spaces and formalises in hybrid collaborative actions, installations and happenings communicated mainly through video.

Find out more at @barenabianca and https://www.barenabianca.earth/.

HOW LIKE A REEF is an observatory, a laboratory, a coalition of research and projects, and a coming together of knowledge practices, artistic, scientific and otherwise. It is a submerged confluence aimed at reflecting on endangered worlds and shaping things to come through collaborative and sustained site-based inquiry. How Like a Reef is convened by Sonia Levy and Chiara Famengo.

Find out more at @howlikeareef and https://howlikeareef.net/.