Dr. Eleni Axioti

Eleni Axioti is a researcher, writer and an educator. She is course tutor of the second year History and Theory Studies programme and Diploma lecturer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA). She is also Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies at the University of the Arts London (London College of Communications & Central St. Martins College). She has been awarded a PhD from the AA with a thesis on the transformation of the institutional architecture of the British welfare state to a state of neoliberal workfare. Axioti holds an MA in Histories and Theories from the AA and a MEng in civil and structural engineering from AUTH (Greece). She has practiced as a designer and researcher in London since 2008.
Her research focuses on architectural history in regard to issues of social policy and political economy, investigating the practices of governance and technology, and more specifically the biopolitical aspects of architecture and planning. She is interested in developing a transdisciplinary approach to research, specifically addressing the different modes of production of architectural knowledge and their role in the development of contemporary relations of power.