Dr. Marina Otero Verzier is Dean’s Visiting Assistant Professor at GSAPP, Columbia University, where she leads the Data Mourning clinic, exploring the intersection between digital infrastructures and climate catastrophe. A 2022 Harvard Wheelwright Prize winner, she collaborates with scientific institutions such as the DIPC Supercomputing Center on developing prototypes like Computational Compost. She contributed to Chile’s first National Data Centers Plan alongside “Resistencia SocioAmbiental – Quilicura” and other local communities on the front lines of extractivism. Otero authored En las Profundidades de la Nube (2024), proposing new paradigms and aesthetics for data storage, integrating architecture, preservation, and digital culture. Previously, she headed the MA Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven (2020-2023) and directed research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (2015-2022). Her curatorial work includes Wet Dreams (2024), Compulsive Desires (2023), and Work, Body, Leisure, the Dutch Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. She has co-edited Automated Landscapes (2023), Lithium: States of Exhaustion (2021), More-than-Human (2020), Architecture of Appropriation (2019), and After Belonging (2016), among others.