Xenia Adjoubei

Xenia Adjoubei is an urban designer and researcher in emergent technology, climate resiliency and community engagement. She is Senior Fellow at the Inclusive Ecologies Incubator, where she leads the FIELD bio-arts project and research into territorial modeling. She is also Lead Researcher in the Global Free Unit, a network for education through live projects in contexts of rapid economic and political change.

Xenia is urban designer and senior transportation consultant at Systematica US. Prior to moving to New York, Xenia ran a London-based architecture and urban design practice, Adjoubei Scott-Whitby Studio, specializing in public realm, climate justice and territorial modeling.

Select Exhibitions

Field: How to Grow a Field: Special Projects Feature, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, US. 2021
Sol y Sombra: 17th Venice Architecture Biennale. In conjunction with the Global Free Unit, Venice, Italy. 2021
Field: Climate Provocations Pavilion with the Inclusive Ecologies Incubator, Governors Island, New York City. 2021
Architecture of Transition Exhibition, Bildmuseet, in collaboration with Alejandro Haiek, Umea, Sweden. 2021
Trades of Cultural Capital: Countless Cities Biennale, in collaboration with Alejandro Haiek. Favara Cultural Park, Italy. 2021
Oslo Architecture Triennale: Degrowth. National Architecture Museum, with the GFU, Oslo, Norway. 2019

Select Publications

Adjoubei, X. FIELD. Towards Another Architecture: New Vision for the 21st Century, Ed. Owen Hopkins. Lund Humphries, London (2024).
Adjoubei, X. Education that Guarantees Change. Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies in the Global South, Routledge, London (2023).
Hemmersam, P., Chopra, D., Dar, A., Breivik-Khan, H., Selmer Olsen, T., Ip, M., Lappi, T.-R.,Te Lintelo, D., Mull, R., Adjoubei, X. ‘Displacement And Placemaking In Design Studios’. Architecture/mps 21, 1 (2022).