María Mazzanti Moncada

María Mazzanti is an architect, editor and educator focused on critical spatial practices, experimental publishing and the environmental crisis. She is an editor in Failed Architecture and the managing editor of VOLUME magazine. She teaches at the interior architecture departments in the Bachelor program of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Master’s program at the Sandberg Instituut. She was a research fellow in the same institutions between 2021-2022. María has taught at Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, The University of Antwerp, The Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and HSE University in Moscow. She has been a guest lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, The Aarhus School of Architecture, ROM for Kunst of Arkitektur in Oslo and the 37th Congress of Architecture in Colombia. Currently, María is commissioning and editing a special series of articles "The Climate Changed" for Failed Architecture, a series of texts, essays and journalistic articles about environmental breakdown. María is also developing a research project in Barranquilla together with Universidad del Norte, where she uses ecofeminist perspectives to explore the entanglements of bodies of water, urban infrastructures and the seasonal flash floods in the city. María is a member of the research group Art and Spatial Praxis of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.