Claudia Pasquero (ecoLogicStudio) & Nathalie Blanc

Claudia Pasquero is an architect, curator and author operating at the intersection of biology, computation and design. She co-founded with Marco Poletto ecoLogicStudio, an architectural and urban design studio which has built up an international reputation for its innovative work on ‘systemic’ design. The London-based studio aims at shaping a definition of a new ecology of space and behavior combining systemic thinking, computational design, bio-hacking and digital prototyping.
EcoLogicStudio's projects have been exhibited internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Design Museum, London, Venice Architecture Biennale, Mori Museum in Tokyo, ZKM Karlsruhe, Saudi Art Biennale in Riyadh, COP26 in Glasgow.
Claudia Pasquero also curated the 2017 Tallinn Architecture Biennale, and co-edited the publication Systemic Architecture - Operating manual for the self-organizing city (Routledge editions, 2012). The forthcoming publication DeepGreen, bio-design in the age of artificial intelligence, will result  from the collaboration with the UN for planning a new urban green strategy with Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality.

Nathalie Blanc is Director of Research at the CNRS, Director of the Earth Politics Center, and a pioneer of eco-criticism in France. She has published and coordinated various research programmes, notably on environmental aesthetics, nature in cities and environmental mobilisations. A founding member of the French Environmental Humanities portal, she was also the French delegate for the COST European research network "Investigating cultural sustainability" and subsequently the delegate for the COST European programme on new materialisms "How Matter Matters" (2016-2019).
She is also the author of Form, art, and environment: engaging in sustainability (Routledge, 2016), an artist and curator working on the theme of ecological fragility. Since 2017, Nathalie Blanc has been leading and coordinating the Laboratoire de la Culture Durable, devoted to urban soils in the Anthropocene and sustainable food, which has led to experiments in writing and exhibitions (Domaine de Chamarande, 2016; Ferme des Cultures du Monde, Saint-Denis).