Lodovica Guarnieri is an Italian-born researcher, artist and curator whose work draws upon the entanglements between ecology and modern infrastructures. Her practice grapples with technoscience as it relates to colonialism, extractivism, and their toxic afterlives in water ecologies. Her performances, texts and events sit with these phenomena to uncover new material imaginaries for social and environmental justice.

Lodovica has held curatorial and research positions at Van Abbemuseum (2016-17) and Manifesta 12 (2017-18). In 2019 she worked on the research project and exhibition ”Hostile Environment(s)” run by Border Forensis’ co-director Lorenzo Pezzani. In 2021-22 she was research fellow for the “Non-Extractive Architecture” research and exhibition programme.  

Over the last eight years, she has presented performances, essays, and events at cultural institutions such as TBA21-Academy, V-A-C Foundation, The Anthropocene Campus/HKW, Lisbon Architecture Triennial, Stroom Den Haag, Bureau Europa, Associaciòn de Arte Utíl, and VIPER Gallery among others.

Currently, she is Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art in London where she leads the Architecture Design Studio 02 with Bahar Noorizadeh and Mohamad Safa. She is co-founder and curator of public programme of The Tidal Garden, a 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.