Deconstructing Utopia: an evening of dialogue with Dr Jamille Pinheiro and Dr Catalina Mejía Moreno

Catalina Mejía Moreno (PhD) is a Colombian-born, UK-based architectural researcher, writer, and educator specialising in cross-cultural dialogue and socioecological, situated practices with an emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean. She is Climate Studies Lead at Central Saint Martins, where she developed the Climate Forum platform, and co-convener of the EARTH researchers network at University of the Arts London.  Catalina holds degrees from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), the Bartlett UCL, and Newcastle University (UK). She has been grantee of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust, Graham Foundation, and re:arc Institute, and serves on international architecture and research editorial boards.

Jamille Pinheiro Dias is Director of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, where she is also a Senior Lecturer. She is currently leading a British Academy Global Innovation Fellowship on environmental and Indigenous film in Brazil. She has held visiting professorships and research positions at Duke University, the University of Manchester, Brown, Stanford, and the University of São Paulo. Her work focuses on environmental issues, translation and Indigenous arts in Latin America. She has published in Environmental Humanities, the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Radical History, among others.