Margherita SoldatiConcept Developer

Margherita Soldati is an concept developer at Waag Futurelab. She develops and guides research within interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of art, science, technology and society. 

Working across European research projects, she develops methodologies and guides pilots through field research, experimentation and collaborative processes of research and development. She has been involved in projects including OpenNext, Better Factory, VOJEXT, REFLOW, VOICE and S+T+ARTS AQUA MOTION, among others. 

Her interests centre on the relationships between bodies, environments and technological systems, particularly in relation to food, health, ecology, biotechnology and practices of care. She is interested in forms of knowledge that emerge through material, sensory and situated research, and in how these can inform collaborations between artists, scientists, technologists and communities. 

Alongside her work at Waag, Margherita is an artist, researcher and educator. Her artistic practice explores how environmental, agricultural and medical systems become perceptible through the body, with a particular focus on immunity, microbial life, contamination and ecological interdependence. She works across performance, installation and writing, often in collaboration with scientists and communities. 

Margherita graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and holds a Master’s degree in Artistic Research from the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague. She is also co-founder of the artistic collectives Absurd Beings and Burning Steps.