Hi, I'm Anna Vershinina, a dynamic architect and researcher deeply committed to shaping a sustainable and innovative future for our planet and beyond. I specialize in Regenerative Architecture and BioDesign, leveraging living systems for building environments. I’m pursuing a PhD at KU Leuven, Belgium, after earning a Bachelor’s in Architecture from Newcastle University, UK, and a Master’s in Architecture from KU Leuven. In 2023, I received the prestigious Bio Art and Design Award with exobiologist Wieger Wamelink, leading to the ExoGarden installation, aimed at sustaining life in harsh environments on Earth and in space. The project was awarded the Falling Walls Award in the following year. Collaborating with regenerative design pioneers Rachel Armstrong and Rolf Hughes, I created Xeno and Xeno II installations. My professional experience spans architecture firms in Germany and China, with BioDesign prototypes displayed at Plotting Patterns and Portals Expo at MU Hybrid Art House, Power Expo at CIVA, Singapore and Dutch Design Weeks, RetroFuture Exhibition at Evoluon, MaterialDistrict, ARCHITECT@WORK, and the Maakindustrie Expo. I have shared my work at notable conferences, including the MEEP Symposium in Lucerne and the MELiSSA Conference, securing third prize in a poster competition.

Join me on this extraordinary journey towards a more sustainable and regenerative future. 💚🚀

15/12/2023 - 15/03/2024. Eindhoven, the Netherlands

BAD Award Winner

The yearly Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award aims to stimulate emerging designers and artists to delve into the world of bio art and design, and produce new multidisciplinary work. This can encompass numerous fields - from sustainability, food and health, to biotechnology, horticulture, and agriculture, from new materials to ethics and from molecules to the universe and every bio entity in-between, natural and synthetic.

12/10/2023 - 25/02/2024. Brussels, Belgium

Project Title:

XENO

POWER connects questions of energy and politics. The exhibition and accompanying program challenges viewers to consider how contemporary infrastructure relates to everyday life across intersecting concerns, including political institutions, citizen participation, geopolitics, energy transition, and climate justice. From oil and gas pipelines to domestic radiators, from wind turbines to recycling hubs, infrastructure is central to today’s debates surrounding systemic change. Objects of intense political, social, and economic contestation, these infrastructures distribute power in both senses of the word POWER : as energy and as politics.

21/09/2023 - 01/10/2023. Selegie Arts Centre, Singapore

Project Title:

Bioplastics from Organic Waste

Activation-exhibition titled “School of Tomorrow”, curated by Kinetic, was a part of Singapore Design Week 2023.

“School of Tomorrow” is a school-themed activation-exhibition that teaches about sustainability in a fun, immersive way. Classes will feature familiar subjects (e.g. Math, Biology, Geography and more), albeit through the lens of sustainability where critical environmental issues are introduced and discussed.

11/05/2023 - 12/05/2023. Kortrijk, Belgium

Project title:

Super Skins: Bioplastics from Organic Waste

ARCHITECT@WORK is a biannual exhibition held at Kortrijk Xpo. ARCHITECT@WORK is a unique event with a focus on product innovations for architects, interior architects and designers.

10/05/2023 - 11/05/2023. Hardenberg, the Netherlands

Project title:

Bioplastics from Organic Waste

Maakindustrie Expo offers the manufacturing industry a meeting place in the field of plastic processing, metal processing, surface treatment and engineering.

YOUNG TALENT Award Winner

08/03/2023 - 10/03/2023. Utrecht, Netherlands

Project Title:

Life in a Different Light

Lecture Topic:

From space to the kitchen and back: bioplastics that challenge the linear lifestyle

MaterialDistrict is the world’s leading platform in the field of innovative materials. It empowers innovation by match-making material needs with material solutions.

24/09/2022 - 23/03/2023. Eindhoven, Netherlands

Project Title:

HOME GROWN

Project Leaders:

Tria Ningsih, Rachel Armstrong, Rolf Hughes

RetroFuture is an exhibition organized by the Next Nature Network. It is a spectacular and interactive setting with design, art, science and film, set in Evoluon, the iconic futuristic National Monument in Eindhoven.

3rd PRIZE WINNER of the POSTER COMPETITION

08 - 10/11/2022. Toulouse, France

Presentation Title:

MICROBIAL GARDENS: A design-led proposal for the creation of a human-bacteria cohabitation unit for inhabiting extreme environments.

The MELiSSA Conference is a major European event in the field of Space Research focused on innovative and unique projects contributing to the circular economy approach.

21 - 29/10/2022. Eindhoven, Netherlands

Project Title:

Life in a Different Light

Dutch Design Week (DDW) is the biggest design event in Northern Europe that takes place in Eindhoven in October each year.

06 - 07/07/2022. Lucerne, Switzerland

Presentation Title:

MICROBIAL GARDENS: A design-led proposal for the creation of a human-bacteria cohabitation unit for inhabiting extreme environments based on microbial fuel cell and benthic fuel cell technologies.

The MEEP Symposium covers science and engineering, materials and manufacturing, components and systems, design, testing, integration and applications, for all Microbial & Enzymatic Electrochemical Reactors, especially Microbial Fuel Cells, Electrolysers and Applications.