Lili Carr

Lili Carr is an architect and spatial researcher with a background in landscape architecture and the natural sciences. Lili’s work explores the material, socio-political, and legal entanglements of urban infrastructures with soils, waters, and ecologies. Committed to situated and participatory research, she is concerned with how the material systems built to sustain urbanized lifeways reshape the living earth and its processes, in sometimes life-sustaining and sometimes life-destroying ways, and how these effects are unevenly distributed and felt. In 2025, Lili was a S+T+ARTS/European Commission–supported artist-in-residence with the BOKU Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and River Research, in Vienna, Austria. From 2018 to 2021, she served as director of maps for the digital humanities project Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene (Tsing et al. 2021). Lili holds an AA Diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, a BA in physics from the University of Oxford, and has studied at the University of Edinburgh, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and the Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, where she co-led the development of the academy’s Climate Curriculum. Lili’s research under JUST ART will contribute to the Just Transitions theme in the context of Aruba and small island states.