JOSHUA GUINESS



Joshua Guiness is an architect and researcher working at the intersection of spatial design, territorial transformation, and contemporary theory. His practice begins from a single premise: spatial arrangements don't merely reflect social and ecological conditions — they actively produce them. From this, he develops protocols, scenarios, and design strategies for territories under planetary pressure.

Based between Zurich and Berlin, he works across three platforms:

E-FX (Edge Effects) is his independent research-design practice. It investigates how territories — borders, ecologies, infrastructures, peripheries — can be re-composed under shifting conditions of sovereignty, governance, and inhabitation. E-FX works through three intersecting tools: sovereignty diagrams that map how material configurations exercise authority, re-worlding protocols that propose alternative territorial arrangements, and scenario images that render speculative futures legible. Recent work has focused on Berlin's edge territories, Mediterranean coastal regimes, and the planetary garden as a political-ecological figure.

Architecture Land Initiative (ALIN), which he co-leads, is a collective developing trans-scalar approaches to spatial planning that integrate the legal, economic, and ecological dimensions of land. ALIN works primarily in Swiss contexts on questions of public space, contributive design processes, rewilding, and territorial transformation.

VOLUPTAS at ETH Zurich, where he is a lecturer and teaching assistant, is a Master's studio in architectural design that develops projects through speculative scenarios and world-building. He teaches the seminars Territories of Sound and Territories of Play.

He is a researcher at the New Centre for Research and Practice and a fellow of Organismo: Art in Applied Critical Ecologies, a program facilitated by TBA21 in Madrid. His writing has appeared in trans, Scroope, and Situation Magazine, among others. He is currently developing Protocols of Another Berlin, a book of interviews and scenario fictions on the city's contested edges, forthcoming with Distanz Verlag.