LODOVICA
GUARNIERI
Lodovica Guarnieri is a designer, researcher, and educator whose work explores the entanglements between ecology and modern infrastructures.
Her practice interrogates technoscience in relation to the toxic afterlives of extractivism and colonialism in aquatic environments, critically engaging with these phenomena through site-specific projects. She develops counter-pedagogical initiatives and sites in the form of programmes, performances, and networks where communities practice collectively to envision new imaginaries for socio-environmental justice.
Lodovica co-founded The Tidal Garden (Venice) and co-leads the ADS2 at the Royal College of Art in London. She has held curatorial and research roles at the Van Abbemuseum and Manifesta 12 and contributed to projects such as Hostile Environment(s), Non-Extractive Architecture, and Alexandria: (Re)activating Common Urban Imaginaries. Her work includes commissions for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, TBA21, Ocean Space, Bozar, The Anthropocene Campus, and more. She holds an MA with distinction from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.
To Re-enchant Contested Grounds
LECTURE
The talk introduces material counter-poetics as a critical framework for design practice. It centres materiality as a site that bears both the afterlives of extractive capitalism and the conditions that can support collective flourishing.
Through a series of projects that sit with and within damaged ecologies, To Re-enchant Contested Grounds explores practices that engage with the toxic, the residual, and the submerged not just as conditions to be analysed, but as grounds from which to collectively mobilise and rehearse other worldings.
By fostering fabulations rooted in situated material knowledges, design’s role is rethought as an act of re-enchantment—a fiction committed to imagining and sustaining possible futures and enabling practices that support intersectional, intergenerational justice from within the realities of the now.