Vanishing Waters: Loss, Transformation, and Resurgence of Water Systems

Amina Chouairi is an Italian Moroccan landscape architect based between the Netherlands and Italy.  She graduated at Delft University of Technology (TUD) in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment in the Netherlands in Landscape Architecture (2020) and was part of the Circular Water Stories lab. She is a lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Wageningen University & Research and holds a PhD in Urbanism from Università Iuav di Venezia. Her practice centres on transitional wet territories, interrogating their contested epistemological, ontological and ethical matters from a landscape architecture perspective. Her doctoral thesis discusses the agency of the barene (brackish marshes) in the Venice Lagoon landscape and their urgent call for restoration. It acknowledges their role in unveiling and rethinking Venice as a city in a landscape, a fluid “Venice-in-a-Lagoon”. Chouairi actively raises public awareness by showcasing overlooked areas of the Venice Lagoon through curated talks, symposia, and landscape explorations, among other formats. Among others, she has given guest lectures at the AA London, TUD, TU Munich, Ghent University, Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Virginia, and the National Institute of Technology Calicut. She was a finalist for the Canadian Centre for Architecture-Mellon Research Program, In the Hurricane, On the Land. Her research has been exhibited at the 10th International Architecture Biënnale Rotterdam, It’s About Time and the 19th International Architecture Exhibition Biennale Architettura Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.