Sofia Greaves

Sofia is a researcher and a freelance artist. 

She works as a post-doctoral researcher for the PROSPERA project, fully funded by the European Research Council, at the University of Vigo, Spain. This project is focused on researching the technologies, organisations and institutional changes we will need to realise futures no longer obsessed with economic growth. Her research is exploring the ways in which art can challenge the generally growth oriented imaginary of urban planning and knowledge production in scientific institutions. Urban development frameworks – no matter how ‘circular’ they are – remain geared in general to perpetuate economic growth and are tied to narrow technological understandings of progress. 

​She has recently completed a Phd at the University of Cambridge as part of the ‘Impact of the Ancient City’ Project, fully funded by the European Research Council. Her research examined the politics of infrastructure in nineteenth-century urban planning reform and public health movements, in Liberal Italy through to Fascism. 

​Sofia is a self-taught artist from South East London and completed her MA in the History of Fine and Decorative Art at Sotheby’s Institute, London. She has exhibited in group shows in London and works on commission.