Gediminas Urbonas

Gediminas Urbonas is an artist, researcher, educator, and co-founder—with Nomeda Urbonas—of Urbonas Studio, an interdisciplinary research practice that facilitates exchange among diverse nodes of knowledge production and artistic practice, in pursuit of projects that transform civic spaces and collective imaginaries. In collaboration with experts from various cultural and professional fields, these projects develop practice-based research models, merging materials and techniques from urbanism, new media, social science, and pedagogy to critically address the transformation of civic space and ecology. Urbonas has established an international reputation for socially engaged and interdisciplinary practice, exploring the conflicts and contradictions posed by economic, social, and political conditions in contexts undergoing transformation. Urbonas uses the art platform to render public spaces for interaction and engagement with social groups, evoking local communities and encouraging their cultural and political imagination. For more information, visit https://act.mit.edu/about/people/gediminas-urbonas/.