Dr Catalina Mejia Moreno

Biography

Catalina Mejía Moreno, PhD, is a sea swimmer, spatial practitioner, writer, educator and researcher. Her work explores practices of resistance and questions of environmental, racial and spatial justice, alongside ecofeminist thought and practice. As Reader in Reparative Architectures, she draws on creative practice, activism and critique to imagine tangible pathways toward social and ecological repair.

Originally from Colombia, now based in the UK, Catalina is a cross-cultural researcher with extensive experience in collaborations across eco-social and geopolitical contexts, weaving knowledge-worlds, practices and epistemologies. Her research and practice are predominantly focused on intercultural dialogues and forms of situated practices, with a particular interest on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Catalina is the Climate Studies Lead across Spatial Practices. Since joining CSM she has been working in developing the Climate Forum (climate-forum.com), a research, curriculum and exchange platform that brings the urgent focus of the climate and ecological emergency to the core of the Spatial Practices Programme, and co-convener of EARTH (Ecological Arts Research Transdisciplinary Hive) at UAL.

She has previously worked at the University of Sheffield, University of Brighton, Queen Mary University of London, and the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Catalina holds a BA in Architecture (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia), an MA in Architectural History (Bartlett School of Architecture, UK), and a PhD in Architectural Theory and Criticism (Newcastle University, UK). She has been Andrew W. Mellon Fellow on the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), the DAAD, J. Paul Getty Trust, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and re:arc Institute grant holder.


Catalina is part of the editorial board of Cadernos de Pesquisa from the Escola da Cidade in São Paulo, and of DESCAMINO publishing series by Lettera Veintidue, Milano, amongst others.