SELENIA MARINELLI
Bio-Architect, PhD, Material activist
Conferences & Lectures
Selection of participation to conferences as speaker:
- 2018 Tirana Architecture Week 2018 – [CO]HABITATION TACTICS. Imagining future spaces in architecture, city and landscape, Polis University, Tirana
- 2018 Lurid Space: Ecology Beyond Organisms, PhD seminar, University of Oslo, Oslo
- 2018 Bio-digital design and Circular Economy, round table, Politecnico di Milano, Milan
- 2019 RIXC Festival 2019 -UN/GREEN: Naturally Artificial Intelligences, the 4th open fields conference on art-science research and un/green exhibition, Riga, Latvia
- 2019 Tirana Design Week 2019 – Foreseeing Uncertainty: Design & Non-Normativity, Polis University, Tirana
- 2022 INTED – 16th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Online
- 2022 CloudEARTH – Conference on Academic Education and its Impact on Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, Hybrid event (Eisenstadt, Austria+Online)
- 2022 ENVISIONING TRANSITIONS: Bodies, buildings, and boundaries Conference, interdisciplinary conference organised by the PhD programme in Architecture and Design Cultures, Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, Online
- 2023 INTED – 17th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Online
- 2023 IMPACT23 – Ecologies of Attention, transdisciplinary symposium organised by PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
- 2024 POM – Politics of Machines 2024 “Lifelikeness & beyond”, Conference organised by RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
- 2024 Memoria, Forma e Identità del paesaggio urbano. Dalla lettura dei segni storici all’uso dei materiali innovativi, Conference organised by Ordine degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti e Conservatori di Roma e provincia (Professional Association of Architects), Rome, Italy
- 2024 FEMEETING 2024 “Women in Art, Science and Technology”, Conference organised by Cultivamos Cultura in collaboration with Ectopia Lab and InArts Lab, co-hosted by INCUBATOR Art Lab and IOTA Institute in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- 2024 12th New Materialisms conference “Intersectional Materialisms: Diversity in Creative Industries, Methods and Practices”, Conference organised by Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland
Lectures and debates:
- Invited lecturer: Lecture “Hyper Nature” in Information Technology in Architecture. Theory Experiments Applications (Computer Supported Design in Architecture) course, Faculty of Architecture “Sapienza”, Rome
JAN 2020
Class held by prof. Arch. Antonino Saggio
- Invited lecturer: Lecture “Hybrids from the end of the World” in Semiotics of Urban Spaces course, Geography and Territorial Processes, “Alma Mater Studiorum”, Bologna
FEB 2021
Class held by prof. Francesco Mazzucchelli
- Invited lecturer: Lecture “TOXIC TERRITORIES: Ecology, Co-existence and Contamination” in Critical Geography Seminar, Geography and Territorial Processes, “Alma Mater Studiorum”, Bologna
MARCH 2021
Seminar held in the context of “Contaminated Spaces” lecture series
- Invited lecturer: Lecture “Hyper Natura: biomateriality in architectural practices” in Design and Construction Studio course, Faculty of Architecture, “Politecnico di Milano”, Milan
APR 2021
Class held by prof. Arch. Ingrid Paoletti
- Invited lecturer, trainer and mentor of the topic “Biodegradable plastic – Construction materials for degradable construction” in Scale-up Elective Course, Faculty of Architecture, “Politecnico di Milano”, Milan
OCT-DEC 2021
Class held by prof. Arch. Simone Giostra
- Invited lecturer: Lecture “Hyper Natura: biomaterials in architectural practice to built multispecies habitats” in Laboratorio di Architettura e Allestimento degli spazi course (“Didattica | Ricerca | Azione” Seminars series), Faculty of Architecture, “Università di Palermo”, Palermo
APR 2022
Class held by prof. Arch. Renzo Lecardane
- Invited lecturer: Lecture “Hybrids from the end of the World” in Urban Geography course, Geography and Territorial Processes, “Alma Mater Studiorum”, Bologna
MARCH 2023
Class held by prof. Matteo Proto
- Invited speaker: Lecture “Biofabrication to empower and activate younger generations and communities at large” in GenB Youth Debate #2 “Communicating the sustainability vision with the bioeconomy”, GenB EU funded project, online
NOV 2024
- Invited speaker: Lecture “From Hands to Habitat” in Biocreators Open Talk #3 – iGEM Arts Gallery, online
NOV 2024, video recordings here