current projects

ArtasLabour
  • Architectures of Artificial Intelligence
    AofAI is a Design Think Tank focussing on the role architects and urbanists can play in designing the envelopes and networks of future computation. What if our professional input became foundational, at this pivotal moment of technological transformation? Join us to find out.
    Architectures of AI
  • FIELD Bio-arts Platform
    Field uses grass as a material for engagement and proposition of inclusive ecologies, post-oil materials, colonial critique and resilient urbanism. In collaboration with Supermrin, Jessica Fertonani Cooke, Jil Berenblum and Ane Gonzalez Lara.
    Decarbonizing Materials & Construction
  • Mapping Climate Justice NYC
    The Waterfront Alliance and ASWStudio are currently mapping how rising sea levels, future storm surges and extreme rainfall events may impact socially vulnerable populations in the tristate area. In collaboration with Christina Bierring, Independent Consultant to the UN & Waterfront Alliance.
    Mapping Climate Justice NYC
  • Nature Based Urban Design
    Project lead on ecosystem services and nature-based solutions on this winning masterplan proposal for Almetyevsk, Tatarstan. An urban oil extraction context became an opportunity to use ecosystem services to remediate the landscape and transform it into a wetland park and cultural heart of the city. PL: Mary Tyulkanova, in collaboration with IQ, Graeme Massie, AECOM.
    Nature Based Solutions on Masterplan Level
  • Territorial Research for Migration Crises
    New Methods in Analysis and Design for Migration, where we use large-scale section drawings and models to show the full length of the Venezuelan-Colombian frontier, migrant journeys and their informal economics, and life in an arrival city in Colombia in its political complexity. As part of the project Sol y Sombra in collaboration with Global Free Unit and Alejandro Haiek.
    Territorial Research for Migration Crises
  • The New Rural Lab
    Research into The New Rural condition, 3D territorial modeling and autonomous development strategy for 650 hectare rural Art park and eco-tourism hub in the Ugra National Park, Russia. Including 120 seater cafe and visitor infrastructure masterplan, built collectively with local craftsmen using local materials and construction techniques. In collaboration with Artel Nikola-Lenivets.
    The New Rural Lab
  • Xenia Adjoubei Kwan
    RIBA Assoc.AIA
    Xenia is an urban designer and researcher, she specialises in areas of emerging tech, climate justice, post-automation futures and is Lead Researcher in the Global Free Unit, a network for education through live projects in contexts of rapid economic and political change. She teaches on the MS in Urban Design programme at the Pratt Institute, New York, and is Fellow of the Inclusive Ecologies Incubator.
Portfolio & Completed Projects
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xenia@artaslabour.com
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