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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\u2019s Wheelwright Prize for a project on the future of data storage. She is Lecturer in Architecture at Harvard GSD and was Dean\u2019s Visiting Assistant Professor at GSAPP, Columbia University, where she led the \u201cData Mourning\u201d clinic on digital infrastructures and climate catastrophe. She collaborated with the DIPC Supercomputing Center on alternative data storage models such as Computational Compost. <\/span>

Otero was Head of the MA Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven (2020\u20132023) and Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (2015\u20132022). She curated and co-curated major exhibitions including Work, Body, Leisure<\/em> at the Venice Architecture Biennale, After Belonging<\/em> at the Oslo Architecture Triennale, and Opera Aperta<\/em>, awarded a Jury Mention at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. She is the author of En las Profundidades de la Nube<\/em> (2024) and Flotando en Litio<\/em> (2025).

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MARINA OTERO VERZIER<\/strong> | AS PIXELS WASH ASHORE<\/h6>\n

What happens to architecture when territory, sovereignty, and memory become digital? Through the case of the Polynesian island state of Tuvalu, which is at risk of disappearing and becoming a fully virtual and digitised nation, Otero addresses the fragility of environments and communities, and their care, custodianship, preservation, and eventual loss in the face of climate catastrophe. How do we handle data, digital storage and the unsustainable legal practices of the data storage industry?
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Marina Otero Verzier<\/a><\/strong> (ES): Architect, Researcher and Curator<\/span><\/p>\n

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