Nadia Christidi

Portrait of a woman with shoulder-length, brown, curly hair, glasses, and earrings wearing a white shirt standing in front of a brick wall.

PhD candidate

Nadia Christidi

Nadia Christidi is a PhD candidate in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and an arts practitioner. Nadia’s research explores how the future of water is being imagined and prepared for in cities facing water supply challenges which are intensifying with climate change; she focuses on Los Angeles, Dubai and Cape Town. Nadia is committed to working at the intersection of art, science, and policy and producing public programming around her research. Her work and programs have been presented at Beirut Art Center, SALT Galata, SALT Ulus, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Jameel Arts Centre, the Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival, and Ocean Space in Venice. She is a Doctoral Fellow with the Governing Through Design research cluster funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, where she works on the project Against Catastrophe. Nadia was previously a TBA-21 Academy Ocean Fellow, a Rasikbhai L. Meswani Fellow for Water Solutions at MIT’s Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab, an Art Jameel Arts Research and Writing Resident, and a Delfina-FICA Research Fellow. She was also Assistant Director of Beirut Art Center (2009-2010) and Interpretation and Learning Lead at Darat Al Funun in Amman (2006-2008), and worked as an independent cultural organizer for many years. Nadia holds an MA in Historical Studies from the New School for Social Research and BA in History of Art from Bryn Mawr College. Her multimodal text contributions have been published by Arte East, Ashkal Alwan, Pfeil Magazine, and Art Jameel (forthcoming), among others, and her research has been featured on Jadaliyya’s Environment in Context and TBA-21 Academy’s Aridity Lines podcasts.

Current Projects and Upcoming Events

Dissertation: Cities and the Future of Water: Dubai, Los Angeles, and Cape Town.
Against Catastrophe, an edited volume, website, and design commissions project developed by Governing through Design and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
From Tankers to Genes: Visions of Aqueous Futures in the UAE, a web publication commissioned by the Jameel Arts Centre.
“Beyond a Green UAE: Re-envisioning Land, Knowledge, and Labor in Art” in Everyday Design-MakerX: From the Margins to the Center, ed. Clapperton Chakanetsa Mahvunga. Forthcoming.

Academic Career

Since 2021	Doctoral Fellow with Governing Through Design, Concordia University, Montreal
Since 2015	PhD in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, Cambridge, MA
2015	Masters of Arts in Historical Studies, New School for Social Research, New York, NY
2006	Bachelor of Arts in History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

Research Areas

Environmental anthropology
Sustainability studies
Political economy
Urban studies
Critical infrastructure studies
Science and technology studies

Publications

Christidi, Nadia (text) and Moussa, Sary (music). “The Topology of a Wave: On Body Doubles and Limited Utopias.” Perpetual Postponement, eds. Christine Tohme and Edwin Nasr, Ashkal Alwan, 24 August 2022. https://perpetualpostponement.org/the-topology-of-a-wave-on-body-doubles-and-limited-utopias/.

Christidi, Nadia (text and photographs). “Glass in Lebanon: A Natural and Post-Natural History.” Pfeil Magazine 14 – Nature, ed. Anja Dietmann, Montez Press, 2021.

Christidi, Nadia. “@Coronarratives.” And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars, ed. Ilan Stavans, Restless Books, 2020, pp. 124-133.

Christidi, Nadia. “Decaying Flesh (#1623).” ArtEaste Quarterly (Special issue on political ecology and climate change), ed. Nora Razian, Spring 2017. http://arteeast.org/quarterly/decaying-flesh-1623/.

Christidi, Nadia et. al. “A Conceptual Glossary: Interrogating the Question of ‘Whose? Anthropocene’ and its Implications.” Anthropocene Curriculum: The Technosphere Issue, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 23 April 2016. https://www.anthropocene-curriculum.org/contribution/a-conceptual-glossary.

Talks, Presentations, and Events (Selected)

10/2021	Workshop Co-Organizer (with Carlo Federico Dall’Omo), ‘Water as a Boundary Object’: Navigating the Shared Waters of Sacca Fisola and Sacca San Biaggio in the Venetian Lagoon, Pro Helvetia, Venice
10/2021	Panel Organizer, Records of Changing Times, Ocean Space, Venice
9/2021	Workshop Organizer, Vernacular Architectures, Water Politics, and Climate Change in Palermo, Istituto Svizzero, Palermo
4/2021	Presenter, The Future as an Index/Indexing the Future: Storage, Value, and Water Management in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles (Virtual)
2/2020	Event Organizer and Moderator, Public Conversation with the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, Residency Event, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
2/2020	Co-Chair (with Nezar Andary), “Environmental Humanities Roundtable,” Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
12/2019	Event Organizer, Watertight: A Guided Tour of Jebel Ali Village, Residency Event, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
10/2019	Presenter, Animal/Vegetable/Mineral: Symbiotic Life in a Parasitic World, Campus Art Dubai 8.0, Dubai
10/2019	Co-Organizer, “The Future of Water in the UAE,” Informal Water Discussion Circle (in partnership with Sustainable Water Network), Dubai
10/2019	Presenter, Research and Development Center, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, Dubai
9/2019	Event Organizer, Meet the Resident (display and presentation), Residency Event, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
8/2018	Workshop Organizer, “Bird Song in the Bijlmermeer: The Poetry and Politics of Intimate Transhuman Entanglements” (with support from Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands), Open Set Summer School - Fluid Rhythms, Amsterdam

Grants, Awards & Honors

2021-2024	Doctoral Fellowship, Governing through Design, Swiss National Science Foundation
2022	Arts Residency, “Water is What We Make It,” Gemene Grond, Utrecht
2021	Ocean Fellowship, Thyssen Bornemisza Art 21-Academy, Ocean Space, Venice
2020-2021	Rasikbhai L. Meswani Fellowship for Water Solutions, Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), MIT
2020	Center for International Studies Fellowship, MIT
2019	Arts Research and Writing Residency, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
2015-2016	Ida M. Green Fellowship, Office of Graduate Education, MIT
2015	Outstanding Achievement at the MA Level, New School for Social Research
2012	Research Fellowship, Supported by the Delfina Foundation and Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, Delfina Foundation, London

Teaching

Spring 2021	Teaching Fellow, Technology and Culture, STS Department, MIT
Spring 2018	Teaching Fellow, The Meaning of Life, Anthropology Department, MIT
Spring 2017	Teaching Fellow, US History Since 1865, History Department, MIT
Fall 2014	Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Design Studies, The New School/Parsons School of Design

Past Roles and Projects

2013	Assistant Producer, Home Works 6 Exhibition, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
2013	Artist’s Assistant on Under-Writing Beirut, Lamia Joreige, Beirut
2012	Publications Coordinator, How Soon is Now: A Tribute to Dreamers, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
2011	Beirut Festival Coordinator, Meeting Points 6 (curated by Okwui Enwezor), Young Arab Theatre Fund, Beirut
2009-2010	Assistant Director, Beirut Art Center, Beirut
2006-2008	Interpretation and Learning Lead, Darat al Funun, Amman

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