X-Topia

X-Topia is an award-winning design-research practice that explores the intersection of architecture and urbanism with technology and the public, social and cultural realm. It was funded in 2008 by Marcella Del Signore, an architect, urbanist, and technologist focused on interscalar spatial practices. X-Topia is currently based in the US, Italy, and Brazil. The array of projects focuses on interscalar design approaches that engage the notion of socio-technical systems through computation, prototyping, material and fabricated assemblies, data-driven protocols, and adaptive environments. X-Topia investigates architecture, environments, and cities not as isolated entities but as part of an extended field mediated through the discursive application of technology. Operating nationally and internationally through an extended network of partners, institutions and sponsors that have supported the work, X-Topia has been engaged in a wide array of urban interventions and small-scale prototypes recognized internationally through publications, grants, and awards, including the invitation to the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021 with the project Aério.