VZ. Virginia Zangs is an architectural and computational designer whose work explores the relationship between spatial and digital systems. Her research investigates how socio-technical infrastructures shape ecological, political, and cultural realities. research practice interMediations code design & soft cybernetics 𓆩ZM𓆪. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Southern California. She graduated from the MS in Computational Design Practices Programme at Columbia GSAPP. Her work experience includes collaborations with institutions and design studios including Wiel Arets Architects, Herzog & de Meuron, and OMA, as well as research positions at The Terraforming - Strelka Institute, ToftH - Transformation of the Human, and partnerships with cultural institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, Architektur Museum - TUM and the Center for Spatial Research CSR - Columbia University. She is a licensed Architect with a Master's degree and Bachelor's degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Munich and Politecnico di Milano.
VZ.RESEARCH Category Date Lecture: Infrastructure: Power Land and Architecture Research & Academia 2025 City in the Cloud Data on the Ground Research & Academia 2025-2026 Media Arts & Practice PhD candidate Research & Academia 2025 BlockchainGov International Symposium Research & AI 2025 Prompts & Provenance @ Biennale di Architettura 2025 Research & AI 2025 DWeb Course Research & Education 2025 Digital Double Symposium Research & AI 2024 Open Source AI Hackathon Research & AI 2024 Start Me Up Bootcamp Research & Innovation 2024 SOAM Residency - Network Sovereignty Research & Technology 2024 Center for Spatial Research Research & Academia 2023-2024 MS Computational Design Practices Education & Research 2023-2024 ToftH - Transformations of The Human Research & Philosophy 2022-2023 Re:Arc Institute Research & Strategy 2022 Terraforming 2022 Research & Design 2022 The New Centre for Research & Practice Research & Academia 2022 MA Architecture Education & Research 2015-2019 Erasmus+ Programme Education & Exchange 2013-2014 BA Architecture Education & Design 2011-2015 VZ.PRACTICE Category Date H.D. Reliquary = 𓆩ZM𓆪 + 29Speedway @ intercomm Research & AI 2025 𓆩ZM𓆪 Design & Community 2025 Mutua.nyc Design & Community 2025 iM InterMediations Design & Research Studio 2024 Wiel Arets Architects Architecture & Design 2021 MoMA Museum of Modern Art Curatorial & Research 2020-2021 Herzog & de Meuron Architecture & Exhibition 2018-2019 OMA AMO Architecture & Design 2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition & Design 2017 TUM Dean's Office for Architecture Research & Academia 2016-2017 AM Architektur Museum München Research & Curatorial 2016 4-Architekten Munich Architecture & Design 2015-2016 DETAIL Magazine Editorial & Research 2014-2021
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