Student Lecture Series | Feifei Zhou: Architecture in the Ecological Crisis

Friday, March 12, 2021, 7 - 9pm

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This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here. Zoom account registration is required.

Feifei Zhou is a Chinese-born artist and architect. She holds an MA in architecture from the Royal College of Art in London and was a guest researcher at Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). Her work explores spatial, cultural, and ecological impacts of the industrialized built environment. She co-edited the digital publication Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene with Anna Tsing, Jennifer Deger and Alder Keleman Saxena, which was published in October 2020. She currently lives and works between London and China. 

The presentation will be followed by a conversation and Q & A moderated by Javier Blancas.

This event is free and open to the public.

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