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 Principal at Systematica. 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.

awards & grants
Ethical AI Leadership, Tech Impact Awards, work contributed as Research Director & AI Officer at Studio intO, 2025
British Council Creative Commissions in Response to Climate Change, 2022
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellowship, awarded 2019; taken up 2021
Artistic Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange Grant, Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council, 2016 & 2018
Knowledge Exchange Grant, British Council, 2017
Best Postgraduate Dissertation Prize, London Metropolitan University, 2008
Royal Institute of British Architects Bronze Medal Commendation, 2006
iGuzzini Travel Award, 2006

curation & convening
2023–present AI+Architecture / AI Salon series, AI+Architecture Symposium (2023), Salon 1 (closed session 2024), Designing the Cloud (2026), Physical AI (2026, forthcoming), Center for Architecture. Originator of theme, co-curator.
2024–present Future of Practice symposium series, Agency (2024), Risk (2025), Center for Architecture. Co-curator.
2021-2022 FIELD: Biomaterials for Public Projects, symposium (2022), workshops (2021, 2022), Climate Provocations Pavilion/ Governors Island & Barnard College, Columbia University. Originator of theme, co-curator.
2021 Climate Classrooms, ACSA Conference and AHRC Architecture After the Anthropocene Convening. Curator.
2014–2019  The New Rural / Nikola-Lenivets Art Park Classroom. Founder and director. Themes: Rural Urbanism, Art as Labour, The New Rural, Degrowth, Virtual Museum in the Open Air, with partners Harvard GSD, MIT, IUAV

talks & papers
papers
2025 UX Mobility, presented at CoMotion Conference, Los Angeles, USA
2024 Women and Gender in Transportation, presented at Transportation Research Board Conference, Irvine CA, USA.
2022 Climate Vulnerability in NYC, presented at Waterfront Alliance Conference, New York City
2022 Displacement and Placemaking in Design Studios, presented at World Urban Forum, Katowice, Poland

talks
2024 Eco-Critical Practices, panelist, Center for Architecture, New York City
2023 Empowering Communities, keynote, Rosenfeld Advancing Research Conference
2020 Architecture at the Edge x Rural Office: Best Practice, panelist, AATE Talk
2017 Art as Labour, guest lecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

publications
Adjoubei, Xenia. “FIELD.” In Towards Another Architecture: New Vision for the 21st Century, edited by Owen Hopkins, Lund Humphries, 2024 (Book chapter).
Adjoubei, Xenia, Haiek, Alejandro. “Education that Guarantees Change.” Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies in the Global South, (eds. Harriss, Salama, and Gonzalez Lara). Routledge, 2023 (Book chapter).
Hemmersam, Peter, Adjoubei, Xenia et al. “Displacement and Placemaking in Design Studios.” ArchitectureMPS, vol. 21, no. 1, 2022.

Adjoubei, Xenia. Into the Future of Artificial Intelligence in Design Research: Equitable Framework. Speculative Scenario. London: Studio intO, 2023. (White paper).
Atlas of Disaster: Climate Resiliency in 50 States. Graphic design by Xenia Adjoubei. Rebuild by Design, 2023 (Report).

Interview in The Land / Edition 02, CANActions Magazine, Ed. Muryn, Romea. Kyiv, 2020
Interview in Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession, Reinier de Graaf, Harvard University Press, 2017.