Archinect - News 2024-12-11T16:20:15-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150312906/marina-otero-is-announced-as-the-2022-wheelwright-prize-winner Marina Otero is announced as the 2022 Wheelwright Prize winner Josh Niland 2022-06-13T13:47:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/79/7944cb5c6d3dc8a0b1999f14560f2199.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The<a href="https://archinect.com/harvard" target="_blank"> Harvard Graduate School of Design</a> (GSD) has announced <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/25720887/design-academy-eindhoven" target="_blank">Design Academy Eindhoven</a> program head <a href="https://archinect.com/marinaotero" target="_blank">Marina Otero</a> as the winner of this year&rsquo;s $100,000 <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/225062/wheelwright-prize" target="_blank">Wheelwright Prize</a> in support of her research proposal titled &lsquo;<em><em>Future Storage: Architectures to Host the Metaverse</em>.&rsquo;</em></p> <p>Through the grant, Otero will look to explore the new architectural paradigms of data stores while considering the potential of digital infrastructure to combat some of society&rsquo;s most pressing and immediate challenges. She has already begun fieldwork in France, the Netherlands and UK, and will further expand her research to include <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1881/singapore" target="_blank">Singapore</a>, Australia, <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/54761/nigeria" target="_blank">Nigeria</a>, the U.S., <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/31698/iceland" target="_blank">Iceland</a>, Sweden, and <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/78439/chile" target="_blank">Chile</a> as a result of the prize's newly-gained backing.</p> <p>"Data centers might not seem like an exciting place for an architectural project," the first-place winner explained. "However, the huge scale of the operations of the data industry and its pervasiveness and increasing importance in the contemporary world&ndash;coupled with its openness to...</p>