Nadia Christidi
Postdoc Fellow
Postdoc Fellow
Nadia Christidi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Difference. She holds a PhD in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society from MIT. Nadia’s research explores how cities in drylands—namely Los Angeles and Dubai—are envisioning and planning for the future of water in the face of climate change. It looks at the political, economic, and social forces shaping sustainable water solutions in each city, focusing on whose sustainability is prioritized and the challenges posed by entrenched interests to achieving new, much-needed socio-environmental realities.
Nadia was previously part of the Swiss National Science Foundation-funded research cluster Governing through Design. There, she co-developed Against Catastrophe , a project that interrogates how catastrophic thinking in the present has fueled technosolutionism and reactionary politics and that fosters anti-catastrophic scholarship and practice through a web platform, edited volume, and art and design commissions. Additionally, Nadia has been a TBA-21 Academy Ocean Fellow, a Rasikbhai L. Meswani Fellow for Water Solutions at MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab, and an Art Jameel Arts Research and Writing Resident.
Nadia is committed to working at the intersection of art, science, and policy; producing multimedia work and public programming to engage diverse audiences in research; and nurturing alternative imaginaries of the future. Her work and programs have been presented at the Sharjah Art Biennial, Jameel Arts Centre, SALT Galata, SALT Ulus, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Beirut Art Center, and TBA-21 Ocean Space in Venice, among other venues.
