Seth Denizen

Seth Denizen is a researcher and design practitioner trained in landscape architecture, evolutionary biology, and human geography. His published work is multidisciplinary, addressing art and design, soil science, urban geography, and agriculture. He holds a doctorate in geography from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied the political ecology of soil in the Mexico City-Mezquital Valley hydrological system. In 2019 he was a recipient of the SOM Foundation Research Prize and has previously taught at Harvard, Berkeley, the University of Hong Kong, and Princeton, where he was a Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities. He is an assistant professor at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and has a forthcoming (2024) book with Harvard Design Press with Montserrat Bonvehi-Rosich: “Thinking Through Soil: wastewater agriculture in the Mezquital Valley.” He serves on the editorial board of Scapegoat: Architecture | Landscape | Political Economy.