Nerea Calvillo (Associate Professor)

Nerea Calvillo (Reader)

Academic profile

I joined CIM in 2015 from Citizen Sense (Goldsmiths University of London). I hold a PhD and a Bachelor´s degree in Architecture (Polytechnic University of Madrid) and a Master´s degree in Advanced Architecture Design (Columbia University). I have taught design studio at the Architectural Association (UK), GSD Harvard University (US), Universidad de Alicante (ES) and the UEM (ES).

Research

Subject area

My work investigates the material, technological, political and social dimensions of environmental pollution. This has led me to analyse notions of toxicity, digital infrastructures of environmental monitoring, DIY and collaborative forms of production, smart cities, and feminist approaches to sensing the environment, among others. I am founder of the collaborative visualisation project In the Air and the architecture office C+arquitectas.

My current work is on toxic politics, pollen and queer urban political ecologies.

Selected Publications

Books

New monograph

Calvillo, N. (2023)Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds.Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, p. 240 Pages.

Contributor

Calvillo, N. (2023)Involvement as an ethics for more than human interdependenciesin D. Papadopoulos, M. Puig de la Bellacasa, and M. Tachetti (eds)Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Calvillo, N. (2022)Toxic Nature: Toward a Queer Theory of Pollution, in K. Förster (ed.)Environmental Histories of Architecture. Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Calvillo, N. (2018) Inviting Atmospheres to the Architecture Table, in: Marres, N., Guggenheim, M., and Wilkie, A. (eds.)Inventing the Social.Manchester: Mattering Press, pp. 41–64.
Calvillo, N. (2017) Air infrastructures for the common, in:Infrastructures for the urban commons. Barcelona, New York: Actar, pp. 54–59.
Tironi, M. & Calvillo, N., (2016). Water and Air: Territories, tactics and the elemental textility of Urban Cosmopolitics. In: I. Farias & A. Blok, eds. Urban Cosmopolitics. Routledge.
Calvillo, N. et al.,(2016). Test-bed as urban epistemology. In Smart Urbanism. Routledge, pp. 146–168.

Editor

Pop, S., Toft, T., Calvillo, N. and Wright, M. (eds.) (2016) What Urban Media Art Can Do. Stuttgart: av edition GmbH.

Hidden tab - Do not delete or move - Needs to be on second position Journals

Calvillo, N.et al.(2022) From Extreme Weather Events to Cascading Vulnerabilities: Participatory Flood Research Methodologies in Brazil During COVID-19, Journal of Extreme Events, p. 2241002.
Porto de Albuquerque, J.et al.(2021) The role of data in transformations to sustainability: a critical research agenda, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 49, pp. 153–163.
Calvillo, N. (2018) Political airs: From monitoring to attuned sensing air pollution, Social Studies of Science, 48 (3), pp. 372–388.
Liboiron, M., Tironi, M. and Calvillo, N. (2018) Toxic politics: Acting in a permanently polluted world, Social Studies of Science, 48 (3), pp. 331–349.
Lezaun, J. & Calvillo, N., (2014). In the Political Laboratory: Kurt Lewin’s Atmospheres. Journal of Cultural Economy, 7(4), pp.434–457.
Halpern, O. et al., 2013. Test-Bed Urbanism. Public Culture, 25(2 70), pp.272–306.

Other

Educational guides

Calvillo, N. (2017) Reclamar el Aire, in: La Aventura de Aprender.

Exhibitions

Air pollution visualisations have been exhibited in:

Medialab-Prado, (Spain, 2008, 2015)
Kitchen Budapest (Hungary, 2009)
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago de Chile (Chile, 2010)
Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Spain, 2014)
The Canadian Centre of Architecture (Canada, 2012)

Projects

Co-I:RECLAIM + network (£1.2m UKRI-funded Network+ grant, awarded March 2022-March 2024). Reclaiming Forgotten Cities - Turning cities from vulnerable spaces to healthy places for people is led by the University of Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) in collaboration with the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Universities of Bath, Bangor and Warwick.
PI:Yellow Dust. Independent research, awarded with an Impact grant ESRC IAA, from Warwick and the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) 2017.
Co-I. Belmont Forum/ESRC/FAPESP/BMBF “Waterproofing Data: engaging stakeholders in sustainable flood risk governance for urban resilience”, (€1m, awarded Jun/2018-May/2021). Funding under the “Transformations for Sustainability”/Norface programme delivered in the UK by the ESRC under the Global Challenges Research Fund.
Mellon Researcher. CCA Mellon Multidisciplinary Research Program “Architecture and/for the Environment” 2017-2019

Teaching

Modules

At CIM, I teach the following modules

My office hours are Thursday, 1pm - 3pm (online or in person). Please email to book an appointment.

Supervision

I currently accept new research students.

I supervise research students in the areas of: environmental pollution, environmental (in)justice, queer ecologies, toxicity, air, atmospheres, critical infrastructures and green and blue infrastructures; from Feminist Technoscience, Queer Studies, Environmental Humanities, Spatial Design, Critical Infrastructures perspectives.

I have supervised the following research students:

Ongoing: Natalie Rothwell, Anna Wilkman, Javier Garcia, Joss Allen

Paz Saavedra “Caring for the past in traditional practices of care”

Ivana Tosheva “Measuring Atmospheres: A novel method for the systematic quantification of atmospheres within building interiors”

Patricio Flores “Challenging global environmental injustice: The Arica Victims KB v. Boliden Mineral A case”

Administration

Director of Postgraduate Research

Contact details

Email:

N.Calvillo@warwick.ac.uk

Phone:

+44 (0)2476 74711

Mailing address:

Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies

Room B0.15

University of Warwick

Coventry

CV4 7AL