Nerea Calvillo explores the material, technological, political and social dimensions of environmental pollution at the intersection between architecture, feminist technoscience studies, new materialisms and urban ecological politics. She is currently working on projects related to toxicity and politics, pollen and queer urban political ecology, and has recently published Aeropolis: Sensing Open Air, Pollution and Queer Political Ecologies (Columbia University Press, 2023).
Calvillo is a lecturer at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick and on the MA in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University, New York. She is the founder of C+ arquitectas and In the Air, a collaborative research project on environmental mediations. Her projects have been presented and exhibited in international centres such as the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chile. She is co-editor of the special issue Toxic Politics (Social Studies of Science, 2018) and the book What Urban Media Art Can Do - Why When Where & How? (av editions, 2016).