Dr Eleni Axioti

Biography

I am a researcher, a teacher and an academic. I am Senior Lecturer at Level 4 - Cert.HE. Preparation in Design, Media and Screen course, at LCC, where I teach and coordinate the Contextual and Theoretical Studies units and I am Associate Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies at the B.Architecture course at Central St. Martins, Spatial Practices. I am also Lecturer and Year Coordinator in History and Theories Studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. I was awarded a Ph.D. by the Architectural Association and hold an MA in Histories and Theories of Architecture (AA) and an MEng. in Civil and Structural Engineering (AUTH - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). My research focuses on history and theories of architecture and design in regard to issues of social policy, and political economy, investigating the practices of governance and the biopolitical aspects of design, architecture and planning. My new book : Against an Architecture of Neoliberal Technocracy : Lessons from (the Dissolution) of the Architecture of the Welfare State in Britain is published in October 2024. I am member of the Space and Place research hub at LCC/UAL and of the Centre for the Study of Class at the University of Salford. I currently supervise PhD research at UAL and the AA and I welcome PhD applications in the field of my expertise.

My research focuses on architecture and design in regard to issues of social policy, and political economy.
I have extensive experience in investigating the role and design of institutions, and the practices and technologies of governance.
More specifically, I research the biopolitical aspects of design, architecture and planning and their effects on the formation of specific subjectivities.
I have developed expertise in design for welfare and architectures of care, examining specifically architectural designs for hospitals and other medical institutions. Other areas of research include the histories of data and computation and their applications in design, architecture, urban planning and policies of government. Through my research I aim to develop a transdisciplinary approach to research and learning, which addresses the different modes of production of architectural knowledge and their role in the development of contemporary relations of power.

I welcome PhD applications from potential students interested in researching the following areas:
spatial and architectural design ; histories and theories of architecture and design ; urban design studies ; design and social policy ; design and technologies of government ; architecture and political economy ; welfare practices and architectures of care; biopolitics and planning ; medical humanities and architectural design ; critical histories of technologies and science ; material cultures.
Please feel free to email me to discuss this in detail.