Marianna Janowicz ARB

Lecturer in Architecture

Marianna Janowicz is an architect, researcher and member of feminist architectural collective Edit.

She gained experience working for small practices in London and Margate, mainly on residential and cultural projects. With Edit she has been working on exhibition design and public realm projects, as well as on research commissions for clients such as the Barbican Centre, the Design Museum and MAXXI in Rome.

Marianna studied architecture at Central Saint Martins and London Metropolitan University. She also completed an MA in Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where she began her investigation into historical communal spaces for drying laundry.

In 2022 Marianna was in residence at the Canadian Centre of Architecture, co-producing a publication on architecture and ethics titled 'How to: do no harm.' In 2022/2023 she was a design researcher in residence at the Design Museum, London, a programme ran by the museum's climate research arm, Future Observatory. Marianna's project, titled 1001 Drying Rooms, examined the historical and present day laundry drying practices in the context of British housing, internal air pollution and the history of public infrastructure for reproductive work. The residency culminated with a free public exhibition at the Design Museum in summer 2023 and a publication. Marianna has since presented the research at the 2023 annual AHRA conference and worked on several publications.

Marianna's research interests include spaces and infrastructures for reproductive labour, domestic environment, future of work and housing and histories of urban sanitation infrastructure. In 2019 her project on foraging and rights to land was included in the main exhibition at the Oslo Architecture Triennale. Her writing has been published in Architects Journal, Architectural Review, Icon, Disegno, Untapped and on e-flux Architecture. Since 2021 she has been working with the charity Open City, for which she runs a monthly walking tour of public buildings in south east London.

Marianna has taught at Newcastle University, Cardiff University, Central Saint Martins and London School of Architecture. She also held a research assistant position at London Metropolitan University. As a guest critic or lecturer, Marianna has spoken at the Architectural Association, RCA, Cambridge University and National University of Singapore, among others.

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