What is the future of the countryside?

Diana Ibáñez López

Course Leader, MA Cities, Central Saint Martins

Diana Ibáñez López directs MA Cities at Central Saint Martins. The course develops new city-making practices through situated research, working translationally and intervening across scales from the voice to global infrastructures. Before leading MA Cities, Diana was a Senior Curator at Create London, where she led on A House for Artists, an award-winning building designed by Apparata. The project was awarded the RIBA London and Client of the Year Awards in May 2023. Diana has taught architecture and urbanism since 2015, at the Royal College of Art, UCL, TU Delft and Kingston, and been a visiting professor at Karlsruhe HKA. 

Instagram: @csm_ma_cities 

Marina Otero

Head, MA Social Design, Design Academy Eindhoven

Dr. Marina Otero Verzier is Head of the MA Social Design at DAE. In 2022 she received Harvard's Wheelwright Prize for a project on data storage's future. Between 2015 - 2022 she was Research Director at HNI and led initiatives on labor, extraction, and mental health from a post-anthropocentric perspective. Otero curated exhibitions, such as the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2018) and the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale, and co-edited books, including Automated Landscapes (2023) Lithium: States of Exhaustion (2021), More-than-Human (2020), Work, Body, Leisure (2018).

Headshot credit: Boudewijn Bollman

Media link: https://www.designacademy.nl/p/about-dae/community/marina-otero-verzier

Samuel Tabory

Global Research Leader, Collaborating for Resilience; PhD Candidate in Urban and Regional Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Samuel Tabory is global research leader for the international non-profit Collaborating for Resilience, as well as a PhD candidate in Urban and Regional Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His work focuses on the cross-scale politicking and negotiation required to effect climate-sensitive governance transitions across urban-rural ecological and infrastructural system extents. He holds master’s degrees in Latin American studies and community and regional planning from the University of Texas at Austin.