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Zenovia Toloudi is an architect, artist and educator. She received her Doctorate from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Zenovia holds a Master of Architecture as a Fulbright Fellow at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago and a professional diploma in Architecture Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh).


 
Small and big scale examples of Zenovia's work can be seen in Thessaloniki, where she designed and constructed The Cage pavilion, now part of AUTh's sculptural museum permanent collection; and in downtown Chicago, where she worked on The Wit, a design-build hotel skyscraper as part of KOO and associates. Zenovia has been awarded the Scientist of the year 2009 title by the Greek newspaper Gnomi for her adaptive sensorial urban interventions. 
At Harvard, she focused on how architectural identity is constructed and perceived through personal taste. Zenovia has been developing PICANICO, a web-based game that predicts the architectural taste of a user by associating images of architecture projects to each other. She has taught studios and seminars at Harvard, IIT, AUTh, and BAC.
 

Zenovia was invited at Venice Biennale 2006 to present the main stage of the Greek participation on Metapolis. The Greek Ministry of Civilization sponsored her to represent Oktana utopian city and Athens Byzantine Museum together with non-profit SARCHA selected her to exhibit in Un-built. She collaborated to construct 8 perspectives of Chicago in Arch-city-art and to create the multidisciplinary SWANday (Support Women Artists Now) art event in Boston. As part of Project on Spatial Sciences research initiative was invited to exhibit 3 States of Hors d’Oeuvres at The Lab at Harvard. Zenovia has initiated Brain.Storms lecture series, organized Critical Digital Conferences and lectures for Art, Design and The Public Domain, and moderated panel discussions in collaboration with Ecological Urbanism, Harvard Kennedy School, Sun Publishers and MIT.