Marina Otero Verzier (

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, 1981) is a

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architect, academic, and researcher. She received the

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in 2022.

Biography

Otero studied architecture at

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. In 2013, as a Fulbright Scholar, she graduated with an MS in critical, curatorial, and conceptual practices in architecture from Columbia GSAPP, and in 2016 she completed her

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at the ETSAM with the thesis ''Evanescent Institutions,'' which examined the emergence of a new paradigm for cultural institutions. Between 2013 and 2015, Otero was the director of Global Network Programming at Studio X, Columbia GSAPP. In 2014, she was announced as Chief Curator of the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale alongside the Spanish collective After Belonging Agency. One year later, she was named Director of Research at

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, the Dutch institute for architecture, design and digital culture, leading initiatives such as ''Automated Landscapes'', focusing on the emerging architectures of automated labor, and ''BURN-OUT: Exhaustion on a planetary scale'', instigating forms of care for multispecies, collective bodies. In 2018, Otero was the curator of ''WORK, BODY, LEISURE'', the

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at the

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. Since 2019, Marina has held the position of Head of the Social Design Master's program at

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in the Netherlands. In 2020, she was part of the curatorial team for ''Bodies of Water'', the theme for the 13th Shanghai Biennale, alongside You Mi, Lucia Pietroiusti, Filipa Ramos and

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, who acted as Chief Curator. In 2022, she received the

with the proposal ''Future Storage: Architectures to Host the Metaverse'', an examination of a new architecture paradigm for storing digital data. Since 2023, Otero has been part of the Architecture and Design Advisory Committee of the

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in Madrid, Spain.

Selected Publications

* ''Unmanned: Architecture and Security Series'' (co-editor, 2016) * ''After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay In Transit'' (co-editor, 2016) * ''Work, Body, Leisure'' (editor, 2018) * ''Architecture of Appropriation'' (co-editor, 2019) * ''More-than-Human'' (with

and Lucia Pietroiusti, 2020)

Selected exhibitions

* ''

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: A Propaganda Retrospective by Jonas Staal'' (2018) * ''Spirits in the Material World'' (2019) * ''Malware: Symptoms of Viral Infection'' (co-curator, 2019) * ''I See That I See What You Don’t See'' at

Triennale di Milano The Triennale di Milano is a museum of art and design in the Parco Sempione in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the , built between 1931 and 1933 to designs by Giovanni Muzio and financed by Antonio Bernocchi and his ...

(2019).

References

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