Lodovica Guarnieri (Italy, 1989) is a researcher, designer and artist whose work draws upon the entanglements between ecology and modern infrastructures. Her practice grapples with technoscience as it relates to extractivism, chemical exposure, colonialism, and the toxic afterlives of the petrochemical industry in water ecologies. Her performances, texts and events sit with these phenomena to uncover new material imaginaries for social and environmental justice.

Over the last eight years, Lodovica has held in curatorial and research positions at Van Abbemuseum and Manifesta 12, and she has been part of the research projects Hostile Environment(s) run by Border Forensis’ co-director Lorenzo Pezzani and Non-Extractive Architecture at V-A-C Zattere. She developed performances, lectures and public programmes for TBA21-Academy, V-A-C Foundation, Anthropocene Campus/HKW, Lisbon Architecture Triennial, Architecture Association, Associaciòn de Arte Utíl, VIPER Gallery, and Stroom Den Haag among others.

Currently, Lodovica is the public programme curator of The Tidal Garden, a spatial and research agency founded in Venice in 2020 to support the emergence of new food habits in times of rising sea levels.

Lodovica holds MA with distinction from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London; an MDes in Social Design from Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands; and a BA cum laude from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy.