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SUMMARY:Wheelwright Prize Lecture
DESCRIPTION:\n\nMARINA OTERO VERZIER WITH KATE CRAWFORD 
 CONVERSATION\n\nMarina Otero Verzier and Donostia International Physics 
 Center\,\n\n"Computational Compost\," film still\, 2023.\n\nABOUT THIS 
 EVENT\n\nIn 2022\, Marina Otero Verzier was named the winner of the 
 Wheelwright Prize\, a grant to support investigative approaches to 
 contemporary architecture with an emphasis on globally-minded research. In 
 her winning proposal\, Future Storage: Architectures to Host the 
 Metaverse\, Otero examined new architectural paradigms for storing data and 
 how reimagining digital infrastructures could meet the unprecedented 
 demands facing the world today. The resulting field research\, data 
 collection\, and prototype development point towards alternative models for 
 global data centers\, including examples of ecological\, circular\, and 
 egalitarian data storage models. As with past Wheelwright winners\, the 
 prize funded two years of Otero’s research and travel.\n\nAfter 
 presenting her project in a lecture on March 9\, “Feral Clouds\,”Otero 
 will dive deeper into the questions and implications of her research the 
 next day in a conversation with AI scholar and artist Kate 
 Crawford.\n\nSPEAKERS\n\nKate Crawford is a leading scholar of artificial 
 intelligence. She is a Professor at USC\, a Senior Principal Researcher at 
 MSR\, and the founder of the Knowing Machines Group. Her award-winning 
 book\, Atlas of AI\, was named a best book of the year by The Financial 
 Times\, won three international prizes\, and has been translated into 
 fourteen languages. Beyond her scholarly work\, she is an award-winning 
 artist whose work explores the themes of technology\, history\, and power. 
 She has had exhibitions in over 100 museums worldwide and has works in the 
 permanent collections of MoMA\, the V&A\, Rijksmuseum Twenthe\, and the 
 Design Museum. Her latest work with Vladan Joler\, Calculating Empires\, 
 won the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 and the 
 European Commission’s grand prize for art and technology. TIME100 named 
 Crawford as one of the world’s most influential people in AI.\n\nMarina 
 Otero Verzier is an architect and researcher whose work sits at the 
 intersection of critical spatial practices\, ecology\, technology\, and 
 activism. In 2022\, she received Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize for a 
 research project on the future of data storage. She is a Lecturer in 
 Architecture at the GSD and has led the Data Mourning clinic at Columbia 
 University’s GSAPP Otero has collaborated with the Supercomputing Center 
 of the DIPC to develop alternative models for data storage\, including 
 Computational Compost\, awarded by Ars Electronica and the Spanish Biennial 
 of Architecture and Urbanism in 2025. She was invited by Chile’s Ministry 
 of Science\, Technology\, Knowledge\, and Innovation to serve as an expert 
 in the development of the country’s first National Data Centers Plan\, 
 working alongside local communities affected by extractivism\, and she 
 advises governments internationally on data center policies. Previously\, 
 Otero was Head of the MA Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven and 
 Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut. She has curated exhibitions 
 at major international venues\, including the Venice Architecture Biennale 
 and the Oslo Architecture Triennale\, and is the author of En las 
 Profundidades de la Nube (2024) and co-editor of Automated Landscapes 
 (2023)\, Lithium: States of Exhaustion (2021)\, More-than-Human (2020)\, 
 Architecture of Appropriation (2019)\, and Work\, Body\, Leisure (2018)\, 
 among others.
LOCATION:Loeb Library Lobby\, Upper Level
ORGANIZER;CN="Claudia Lewis":MAILTO:claudia_lewis@gsd.harvard.edu
CATEGORIES:GSD Events in the Library
CONTACT;CN="Claudia Lewis":MAILTO:claudia_lewis@gsd.harvard.edu
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