Emily Eliza Scott
former postdoc

Emily Eliza Scott is an interdisciplinary scholar, artist, and former U.S. National Park Service ranger focused on contemporary art and design practices that engage pressing ecological and/or geo-political issues, often with the intent to actively transform real-world conditions. Currently postdoctoral fellow in the architecture department at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), she teaches on subjects ranging from the concept of “post-nature” to contemporary architecture “in the expanded field” to the emergent geographies climate change. She is the coeditor, with Kirsten Swenson, of Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics (University of California Press, 2015) and her essays have appeared in Art Journal, American Art, Third Text, Social Text, Cultural Geographies as well as multiple edited volumes. She is also a founding member of two long-term, collaborative projects: World of Matter (2011-), an international art and research platform on global resource ecologies, and the Los Angeles Urban Rangers (2004-), a group that develops guided hikes, campfire talks, field kits, and other interpretive tools to spark creative explorations of everyday habitats in their home megalopolis and beyond.

Her work has been supported by major grants/awards from Creative Capital with the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, College Art Association, American Council of Learned Societies, Luce Foundation, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Annenberg Foundation, and Switzer Foundation.