Marina Otero Verzier (ES) is an architect and researcher working at the intersection of critical spatial practices, ecology, technology, and activism. In 2022, she received the Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize for a project on the future of data storage. She is Lecturer in Architecture at Harvard GSD and was Dean’s Visiting Assistant Professor at GSAPP, Columbia University, where she led the “Data Mourning” clinic on digital infrastructures and climate catastrophe. She collaborated with the DIPC Supercomputing Center on alternative data storage models such as Computational Compost.

Otero was Head of the MA Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven (2020–2023) and Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (2015–2022). She curated and co-curated major exhibitions including Work, Body, Leisure at the Venice Architecture Biennale, After Belonging at the Oslo Architecture Triennale, and Opera Aperta, awarded a Jury Mention at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. She is the author of En las Profundidades de la Nube (2024) and Flotando en Litio (2025).

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