About

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 the politics of climate change. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Scapegoat Journal: Architecture / Landscape / Political Economy. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California Berkeley, where his doctoral research investigated the vertical geopolitics of urban soil in Mexico City. This project engaged with geologists and soil scientists to characterize the material complexities and political forces that shape the distribution of geological risk in Mexico's urban periphery.

Denizen has over 10 years of teaching experience, having taught at the University of Hong Kong, Harvard, and Princeton, where he was a Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities. In 2019 he was awarded the SOM Foundation Research Prize with the architect Montserrat Bonvehi and restoration ecologist David Moreno Mateos for their investigation of wastewater urbanism in the Mezquital Valley, Mexico. This research was recently published by Harvard Design Press in the book "Thinking Through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley." Denizen is currently an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design at Washington University in St. Louis.