Business Developers
Xenia Adjoubei leads the business strategy of Systematica US in New York. She has 14 years of experience leading urban design, masterplanning and public realm projects in the UK and Europe. Xenia teaches on the MS in Urban Design Program at Pratt Institute, New York.
Xenia’s academic research projects on environmental diplomacy and climate justice have been showcased at exhibitions internationally, notably, the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 and Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019. Xenia is currently Fellow at the Inclusive Ecologies Incubator, where she leads the FIELD bioarts project, looking into grass-based plastics as a renewable material for construction. Prior to coming to New York, Xenia was Lead Researcher in the Global Free Unit, a network for education through live projects in contexts of rapid economic and political change, where she led initiatives such as the New Rural Design Think Tank, and the Sol y Sombra mapping project, which developed complex territorial modeling tools for the Amazon.
Xenia has been awarded the British Council Creative Commissions in Response to Climate Change grant in 2022, to realize an artwork monitoring environmental quality in cities. She has been awarded the Artistic Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange Grants by Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council in 2016-2018 and the British Council Knowledge Exchange Grant in 2017. She received the iGuzzini Travel Award and Royal Institute of British Architects Bronze Medal Commendation for her Architecture Degree Project in 2006.