full cv is here

education

  • 2019
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  • 2017
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  • 2015
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  • 2015
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  • MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF  TECHNOLOGY
    Master Of Science In Architecture Studies,Urbanism
  • MOSCOW ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTE
    Bachelor Of Architecture
  • STRELKA INSTITUTE OF MEDIA, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
    Postgraduate program New Normal, Project Common Task
  • MOSCOW ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTE
    Specialist Of Architecture, Thesis Moscow-Intervals

academic appointments

  • 2019-
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  • 2019-
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  • MIT future urban collectives lab
    Lead Researcher
  • MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab
    Research Analyst, (un)Real Estate

publications

  • 2021
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  • 2021
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  • 2021
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  • 2020
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  • 2019
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  • 2019
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  • Politics of the Virtual
    in Voices (Towards Other Institutions); ed. Ipollito Pestellini Laparelli and Erica Petrillo
  • The city as a Videogame
    Perspectives in Metropolitan Research; ed. by Raphael Shweigmann
  • RT3DDT: poetics of synchronization
    in CARTHA Magazine
  • The city in the Age of Remix
    Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus; ed. E Navas, x Burrow and O Gallagher
  • Professional Distortion
    PLAT Journal, 8.5 TL;DR; ed. Lauren
  • (un)Real Estate
    MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab Series on Medium

exhibitions

  • 2021
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  • 2021
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  • 2019
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  • 2019
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  • 2016
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  • Russian Pavilion at Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021
    The politics of the Virtual, video-essay, commissioned by the curatorial team of Russian Pavilion
  • Open Collectives Station at Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021
    An installation by the MIT future urban collectives lab team, comissioned by the curatorial team of the Biennale
  • MIT SA+P Gallery 9 group exhibition
    Screening of the videoessay Virtual Social
  • MIT Media Lab Show,
    Screening of the videoessay Content
  • Moscow Architecture Biennale
    Personal exhibition; Moscow-Intervals

Alina Nazmeeva is a researcher, architect and artist investigating the relationships between cities and digital games, interfaces and publics, CGI and politics. Alina holds a Master of Science in Urbanism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a fellow of the New Normal programme at the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design (2017). Currently she is a research associate at the future urban collectives lab at MIT where she works on designing spaces and platforms or new forms of collectivity, and a research analyst at the MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab where she focuses her research on understanding the economy and design of virtual worlds and online games. Her writing has been published in PLAT, Media-N and CARTHA Magazine.

Alina Nazmeeva is a researcher, architect and artist investigating the relationships between cities and digital games, interfaces and publics, CGI and politics. Alina holds a Master of Science in Urbanism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a fellow of the New Normal programme at the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design (2017). Currently she is a research associate at the future urban collectives lab at MIT where she works on designing spaces and platforms or new forms of collectivity, and a research analyst at the MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab where she focuses her research on understanding the economy and design of virtual worlds and online games. Her writing has been published in PLAT, Media-N and CARTHA Magazine.