Xenia Adjoubei

Xenia Adjoubei serves as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design department at Pratt Institute's School of Architecture. She is an urban designer and researcher specializing in emergent technology, climate resiliency, and community engagement. Adjoubei holds additional roles as Senior Fellow at the Inclusive Ecologies Incubator where she leads the FIELD bio-arts project, and as Lead Researcher in the Global Free Unit network for education through live projects in contexts of rapid economic and political change.

Her research interests span climate justice, territorial modeling, and post-oil economies, with particular focus on how grass ecosystems can serve as platforms for decolonial design, resilient urbanism, and material innovation. Adjoubei's work bridges architectural practice with environmental science, exploring how bio-based materials derived from grass clippings can transform public spaces while addressing ecological challenges.

Her recent publications examine architectural pedagogies in the Global South, displacement and placemaking in design studios, and innovative approaches to urban design for the 21st century. Adjoubei's FIELD project has been exhibited internationally at prestigious venues including the Venice Architecture Biennale, Oslo Architecture Triennale, and Untitled Art Fair in Miami.

• Featured at 17th Venice Architecture Biennale (2021)
• Featured at Oslo Architecture Triennale: Degrowth (2019)
• Featured at Untitled Art Fair Special Projects (2021)
• Featured at Architecture of Transition Exhibition at Bildmuseet (2021)

Adjoubei maintains an active professional practice as urban designer and senior transportation consultant at Systematica US, and previously ran her own London-based architecture and urban design practice, Adjoubei Scott-Whitby Studio. She has taught at multiple international institutions including Umeå University in Sweden where she co-taught the Tectonic Performance studio from 2020-2022, and has been involved in significant research projects including the New Rural Lab in Russia's Ugra National Park.