MSc Landscape Urbanist (Architectural Association)
BSc Earth Scientist (National Autonomous University of Mexico)

Elena is a PhD student at the Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences at the University of Cambridge, working on The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England. She teaches Histories and Theories and Policy Design seminars at the Landscape Urbanism MSc and MArch programme at the Architectural Association. She worked at Groundlab Research Residency at the Architectural Association, where she conducted semi quantitative and qualitative studies on environmental vulnerability in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the UK in collaboration with the British Geological Survey, the University College of London, and the British Council. She has taught in the Mexico Visiting School at the AA, at the Royal College of Art, and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her work focuses on the verticality of territories, its imaginaries, epistemologies, and disciplinarian tensions in relationship to contemporary design praxis. Her research work is situated in the interstices between soil sciences, geology, collaborative ethnography, its imaginaries and materialities.

Her work beyond academia is situated in community approaches through soil and land management. These collaborations take place within London, South East Wales, and the periphery of Mexico City. These collaborations unfold as cartographies, archives, and other media.

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Research & Design
Soil Health Clinic London

Patlachique common lands and ecologies

Architectural Association Landscape Urbanism tutor

Royal College of Art Environmental Architecture studio tutor

Decentralised Water Solutions for Mexico City and its Metropolitan Area

Field Office Workshop 1

Infográficos de campamentos en riesgo en Chile

Just Transition: the (Un)intended consequences of Greening

WritingsArchitectural Design. Just Transition: Rewiring Carbon-Pollutant Landscapes and Labour into a Community Forestry Framework.
World Landscape Architects. Landscape architecture Insights | The next generation | Part 3 – Our Future Woodlands
AArchitecure 46. The Commodification of Carbon: a Paradox in Scotland’s Peatlands

Exhibitions
2024 Oxford Real Farming Conference: Agroecological Futures Through Landscape Urbanism

2020 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture Shenzhen Biennale