Marina Otero Verzier
Dr. Marina Otero Verzier is an architect and researcher. She is a Lecturer in Architecture at Harvarad GSD, where she teaches the MDES Open Project Storing Climates. At GSAPP, Columbia University, New York, Otero is the Dean’s Visiting Assistant Professor, leading the Data Mourning clinic- an education initiative focused on the intersection between digital infrastructures and climate catastrophe- by invitation of Dean Andres Jaque. In 2022, Otero received Harvard’s Wheelwright Prize for her project on the future of data storage. She collaborated with the Supercomputing Center of the DIPC to develop alternative models for storing data, such as the project Computational Compost, first presented at Tabakalera. Otero was also invited by Chile’s Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation to participate as an expert in the development of the country’s first National Data Centers Plan, working alongside Resistencia SocioAmbiental – Quilicura and other local communities on the front lines of extractivism. Otero is the author of En las Profundidades de la Nube (2024), a book on data storage and sovereignty in the AI era. The book proposes new paradigms and aesthetics for data storage, integrating architecture, preservation, and digital culture. Otero served as the Head of the MA Social Design program at Design Academy Eindhoven from 2020 to 2023. From 2015 to 2022, she was the Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.