Marina Otero
Dr. Marina Otero Verzier is an architect and researcher. She is a Lecturer in Architecture at Harvard GSD. Otero also leads the Data Mourning clinic at GSAPP, focused on the intersection of digital infrastructures and climate catastrophe, by invitation of Dean Jaque.
In 2022, Otero received Harvard’s Wheelwright Prize for a project on the future of data storage. She collaborated with the DIPC Supercomputing Center on alternative models for storing data, including Computational Compost. In Chile, she contributed to the first National Data Centers Plan with “Resistencia SocioAmbiental – Quilicura” and other frontline communities resisting extractivism.
Otero is the author of En las Profundidades de la Nube (2024), a book proposing new paradigms and aesthetics for data storage across architecture, preservation, and digital culture. She previously directed the MA Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven (2020–2023) and served as Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (2015–2022).
Her curatorial work includes Opera Aperta (special mention, Venice Architecture Biennale 2025), Wet Dreams (2024), Compulsive Desires (2023), and Work, Body, Leisure (Dutch Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2018). She is co-editor of Automated Landscapes (2023), Lithium: States of Exhaustion (2021), More-than-Human (2020), Architecture of Appropriation (2019), and After Belonging (2016). Otero is a member of the Architecture Advisory Committee of the Museo Reina Sofía.
