Catalina Mejia Moreno

Catalina Mejia Moreno is an architect (U Andes, Colombia), she holds an MA in Architectural History from the Bartlett School of Architecture and a Phd in Architectural Theory and Criticism from Newcastle University. She currently a Senior Lecturer in Climate Studies in the Spatial Practices Programme of Central Saint Martins, UAL. Before joining UAL she was Architectural Humanities Lead and taught across Humanities and Studio at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture (The University of Sheffield).

Her current research project in collaboration with Dr. Huda Tayob and entitled Architectures of the South: Bruising, Wounding, Healing, Remembering, Returning, and Repairing speaks to spaces and site-specific objects across geographies of the south. It questions what is at stake for architecture and spatial practice to think from the south as an embodied location of knowledge and power. We recognise that this often involves looking across disciplinary boundaries, and associated ways of seeing and working. The project will explore different platforms: a co-edited journal for https://www.ellipses.org.za/, a series of ‘quiet conversations’ held at the Space for Black Creative Imagination at MICA, Baltimore, a roundtable at the 2022 SAH conference in Pittsburgh and as an exhibition and workshop at the African Futures Institute AFI in Accra next year.