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.