About
Zenovia Toloudi / Studio Z
Associate Professor of Architecture, Studio Art, Dartmouth College
DDes, AIA Intl Associate, BSA member
DDes 2011, Harvard GSD
MArch 2006, IIT Architecture
Dipl. Arch. Eng. 2003, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
zenovia@gmail.com
twitter: @tolozen
instagram: @ztoloudi
Zenovia Toloudi, D.Des., is an architect, artist and Associate Professor of Architecure (with tenure) at Studio Art, Dartmouth College. Her work, situated at the intersection of art and architecture, addresses the increasing disconnection of people from nature and from each other and suggests alternatives to restore lost connections. Using digital and organic media, Zenovia proposes innovative architectures that promote inclusion of, and interaction with human participants. Her work asks how installations, typically conceived as short-lived interventions, affect established traditions and norms, and how proposed paradigms trigger new and unexpected activities. Zenovia has exhibited art installations in 30+ exhibitions in the US and Europe in venues such as the Biennale in Venice, the Center for Architecture in New York, the Athens Byzantine Museum, Le Lieu Unique in Nantes, and the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens, and she won commissions from Illuminus Boston, and The Lab at Harvard. Her work belongs to permanent collections at Aristotle University and the Thracian Pinacotheca. In addition, Zenovia has authored more than 20 academic articles and book chapters that focused on art and architecture installations in publications such as The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, Technoetic Arts Journal of Speculative Research, Palgrave Macmillan's Ludics—Play as Humanistic Inquiry edited volume, and MAS Context's issue on the Ordinary. Research Fellow at Art, Culture, and Technology Program at MIT, and a Fulbright Fellow, Zenovia received her doctorate from Harvard's GSD, a M.Arch. from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and a diploma in Architectural Engineering from Aristotle University. Raised at a periphery of Greece, Zenovia works in the Mediterranean and in North America and her fascination with borders is reflected in art that ranges in reference and material across the boundaries of biology, society, and technology.
* Photo credit: Jeneile Egbert