IASPIS expert visit in Stockholm, 10 – 12 November, 2025

Marina Otero Verzier is an architect, researcher and curator whose work sits at the intersection of critical spatial practices, ecology, technology, and activism. In 2022, she received Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize for a project on the future of data storage. She is a Lecturer in Architecture at Harvard GSD and Dean’s Visiting Assistant Professor at GSAPP, Columbia University, New York, where she leads the Data Mourning clinic, an educational initiative focused on the intersection of digital infrastructures and climate catastrophe.

Photo: Boudewijn Bollmann

Marina-Otero Verzier

Otero was Head of the MA Social Design program at Design Academy Eindhoven (2020–2023) and Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (2015–2022). She has curated exhibitions such as Opera Aperta, awarded a Jury Mention at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025; Wet Dreams at Mayrit, CentroCentro (2024); Compulsive Desires: On Lithium Extraction and Rebellious Mountains at Galería Municipal do Porto (2023); Work, Body, Leisure at the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2018); and co-curated After Belonging at the Oslo Architecture Triennale (2016). Otero is the author of Flotando en Litio (2025) and En las Profundidades de la Nube (2024). She has also co-edited Automated Landscapes (2023), Lithium: States of Exhaustion (2021), More-than-Human (2020), Architecture of Appropriation (2019), and Work, Body, Leisure (2018), among others.