Lorenzo Pezzani

Architect and researcher, his work explores the spatial politics, visual cultures and political ecologies of migration and borders. After obtaining his Phd in Research Architecture at Goldsmiths (University of London), he has worked as Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), as Post-doctoral Fellow in Politics at the University of York and at the Kent Law School, and as Reader in Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Over more than a decade, as co-founder of projects such as Forensic Oceanography and Border Forensics, he has worked at the crossroad of academic research, the arts and non-governmental activism, bringing new interdisciplinary perspectives on pressing issues such as migration, border violence and the environmental crisis. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna, where he directs LIMINAL, a laboratory investigating intersectional (im-)mobilities through forensic imagination, and leads the "Hostile Environments" ERC project. His work has been used as evidence in courts of law, published across different media, and exhibited internationally.