Zenovia Toloudi

Zenovia Toloudi, D.Des. is architect, artist and Associate Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College. Founder of Studio Z, a creative practice focusing on the intersection of architecture, art, and urbanism, her work centers on connections between the environment, technology, and society. Zenovia has exhibited internationally, including at the Biennale in Venice, Le Lieu Unique in Nantes, France, the Center for Architecture, the Athens Byzantine Museum, the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art and the Onassis Cultural Center. She has won commissions from Illuminus Boston, and The Lab at Harvard. Zenovia's work belongs to permanent collections at Aristotle University (AUTh), and the Thracian Pinacotheca.

Zenovia has been an invited speaker on topics of spatial light, art installations, bioart, and bioarchitecture at venues such as the Light InSight interdisciplinary lecture series at New England College of Optometry, the International Symposium for Electronic Arts, the MIT Media Lab, the MIT Museum, the Aga Khan Symposium, the AIAS Forum, and the International Making Cities Livable Conference. Her writings on bioarchitecture, the vernacular, and art/architecture installations were published in Routledge, Technoetic Arts, MAS Context and Organs Everywhere. Zenovia’s recent analysis on 21st century public space crisis, published by The Conversation, was republished in more than 30 venues, and was featured by The Aspen Institute.

Zenovia’s work has appeared internationally in press including at Artdaily and Artnews. She was interviewed by The Matt Townsend Show, BYU Radio on public space crisis; by Delta TV with one episode on her practice; by Vimagazino for her latest project on future architecture and agriculture; and multiple times by The Dartmouth for her practice, pedagogy, and vision. Zenovia is the recipient of The Class of 1962 Fellowship. She was a Public Voices Fellow, a Research Fellow at Art, Culture, and Technology Program at MIT, and a Fulbright Fellow. In 2011, Zenovia received her Doctor of Design degree from Harvard's GSD, a Master's of Architecture degree at the Illinois Institute of Technology (2006), and in 2003, she graduated from the AUTh in Architectural Engineering.

REAS OF EXPERTISE

architecture / art / art and technology / installations / media technology / light and space / cognition and perception / public space / urbanism / bioarchitecture / bioart / environmental art / ecology and architecture

Education

• Doctor of Design Harvard University (2007 — 2011)
• Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) Illinois Institute of Technology (2004 — 2006)
• Professional Diploma of Architecture Engineering Aristoteleion Panepistimion Thessalonikis (1997 — 2003)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Toloudi, Z. Technoutopias exhibition catalogue, Dartmouth College, 2019

Toloudi, Z. Technoecologies: The Interplay of Space and its Perception, Ludics: Toys, Games and Play from Antiquity to Present, ed. Vassiliki Rapti and Eric Gordon (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2021) p. 95-123 LINK

Toloudi, Z. Architecture and Living Matter(s): From Art/Architectural Installations to Metabolic Aesthetics, The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, ed. Charissa Terranova and Meredith Tromble, Routledge Press, 197-217 LINK (book chapter)

Toloudi, Z. When Public Space Meets Civic Imagination: The Case of Harvard Square, The Journal of Civic Media, Issue Civic Engagement (forthcoming)

Toloudi, Z. A Laboratory of Ideas in the Making, Harvard Wisdom. Inspiration from Harvard Graduates Around the World. ed. Sunha Paul Kim (Independently published, 2020) p. 176-177

Toloudi, Z. On Interdependent Metabolic Structures: The Case of Cyborg Garden, as part of Human Computer Interaction International Conference (HCII) Proceedings (Springer, 2018) 135-144

Toloudi Z. Silo(e)scapes, Tomorrows: Urban Fictions for Possible Futures, ed. Daphne Dragona and Panos Dragonas (exhibition catalogue, 2018) 74-75, 82-85

Toloudi, Z. Hacking Light, Organs Everywhere, ed. Simone Ferracina, Vol. 5 (New York, NY, 2017) 140-147