Lodovica Guarnieri is a designer, researcher, and educator whose work explores the entanglements between ecology and modern infrastructures. Her practice interrogates technoscience in relation to the toxic afterlives of extractivism and colonialism in aquatic environments, critically engaging with these phenomena through site-specific projects. She develops counter-pedagogical initiatives and sites in the form of programmes, performances, and networks where communities practice collectively to envision new imaginaries for socio-environmental justice.

Lodovica is Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art in London where she co-leads the ADS2 “Nowhere Not In Time”. She is co-founder and curator of cultural programmes and research of The Tidal Garden, a project based in Venice that develops the cultivation and commercialisation of halophytes - salt-tolerant plants - as a tool for cultural adaptation to climate change.

Over the past nine years, Lodovica has held curatorial and research positions at Van Abbemuseum and Manifesta 12 and has contributed to the research projects ”Hostile Environment(s)” by Border Forensis’ co-director Lorenzo Pezzani and “Non-Extractive Architecture”. Her work has been presented at TBA21-Academy, Ocean Space, Bozar, The Anthropocene Campus/HKW, Lisbon Architecture Trienniale, Stroom Den Haag, Bureau Europa, Associaciòn de Arte Utíl, V-A-C Zattere, and VIPER Gallery among others.
 
Lodovica holds a 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.