Laura-India Garinois is a French-Greek designer and filmmaker currently pursuing a Master of Science in architecture studies (SMArchS AD) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is particularly interested in the role of spatial research, design, and moving images, in addressing the commodification of nature and the lifespan of building materials.
Garinois received her Bachelor of Architecture at Cornell University, where she was awarded the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal for her thesis Live Jacket. She has been recognized for her work through awards including the Sansusī Festival 2nd Place (Buildner, 2023), Editor’s Choice Award (Switch, 2019), Honorable Mention in Architectural Design (American Architecture Prize, 2017), Rug Your City 1st Place (Floorplans, 2016), Tokyo Vertical Cemetery Finalist (Arch Out Loud, 2016), The Bench 1st Place (MAKE, 2016). Her work has been supported by the Student Seed Grant (Council for the Arts at MIT, 2023), MISTI Chile Research Fellowship (2024), MISTI Ukraine (2023).
She has exhibited her work at ETH Zurich (ETH with Ukraine—Exchanging Knowledge for a Sustainable and Resilient Future, 2024 and Doors to Ukraine: Designing for Urgency, 2023), Harvard Graduate School of Design (Forest Futures, 2024), Thessaloniki Design Week 2019, and contributed to the POOL Magazine Issue n.7 (University of Californai, Los Angeles, 2022).
Garinois is also he co-founder of Superinfra, a design-research practice at the intersection of infrastructure, phenomenology, and ecological restoration.