MSCDP Conversations with Practitioners: Lucia Rebolino

Lecture from Lucia Rebolino: An artist, architect and research-based computational designer. She is currently a Researcher with Forensic Architecture in London. Lucia is one of the first graduates of the MS CDP program.

Lucia conceives her practice as a space where different branches of science and design can conceptualize, critique, visualize and provoke new vibrant aesthetics, drawing attention to complex and invisible systems.

Lucia maintains an experimental approach at the intersection of art and science, using computation to create alternative pathways in design practices.

Her spatial and conceptual thinking is grounded in research-based practice developed during her time as Teaching Associate at Columbia GSAPP and Researcher at the Center for Spatial Research in New York, testing new tools in investigative projects, exploring data visualization, and new counter-cartography aesthetics.

Since 2023, Lucia has been a Researcher with Forensic Architecture in London, working across cartography, remote sensing, and web platforms in support of environmental justice and human rights investigations.

In parallel, since 2023, Lucia has been working with the Institute of Contemporary Art in Graz, contributing to the Komuna Maro project, translating oceanographic data into video and visual material for a series of sailing-based research exhibitions across the Adriatic Sea (2025).

Across web-based environments, video installations, net art, and performative lectures, Lucia examines how sensing technologies and computational infrastructures shape scientific narratives. Her long-term project, Unpredictable Atmosphere (2022–ongoing), investigates climate models, focusing on how technological infrastructures interact with physical laws and how uncertainty, error, and outliers emerge within predictive systems. Developed in dialogue with researchers from institutions including NASA and ESA, the project has been published in e-flux (2024), exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2025), and presented at MoMA’s R&D Salon, MediaLab Matadero, the Institute for Postnatural Studies, and The Photographers’ Gallery through Screen Walk.

Lucia holds an M.Arch from Politecnico di Torino in Italy and an MSc in Computational Design Practices from Columbia GSAPP in New York. She has lectured internationally at institutions including ETH Zürich, EPFL, the Royal College of Art, the Architectural Association, and Design Academy Eindhoven.