Selenia Marinelli

Selenia Marinelli is an architect, PhD and independent researcher based in Rome, where she presents her practice as bio-architecture and material activism. She took her doctorate at the Faculty of Architecture of Sapienza University with a thesis on hyper nature, bio-information and biotechnology as new design strategies, supervised by Antonino Saggio.

Her research treats architecture as a place of hybridisation between organic and inorganic matter, testing biofabrication by growing and manipulating biomaterials by hand – kombucha and bioplastic among them – as alternatives to conventional construction products. She has lectured and run DIY biomaterials workshops in Italy and abroad, mentored at Politecnico di Milano, and shown Uterine Spaces, a project on multispecies coexistence, at BASE Milano.