Writing
Selected Publications,
Christoforetti, Elizabeth. "Resistant Data: Questioning Architectural Values in the Age of AI." Harvard Design Magazine Digital, Nov 13, 2025.
Christoforetti, E. Chapter 3 in: Digital Urbanism, ed. Sarah Williams. Actar, 2025.
Guest Ed. Christoforetti, E. and Reidel, J. Harvard Design Magazine 52: Instruments of Service. Fall 2024.
Christoforetti, E. Spring 2024 Harvard GSD Option Studio Report entitled Urban Glitch: Systems-linked Architecture in a Contingent World. Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2025.
Christoforetti, E. B., & Verganti, R. (2025). Designing for our better selves – a call for design in the 21st century to move beyond a user-centered approach. The Design Journal, 28(1), 54–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2025.2455638
Christoforetti, E., and El Sayah, Romy. “Collective Design for Collective Living.” Chapter 17 in Machine Learning and the City: Applications in Architecture and Urban Design, ed. Carta, Silvio. Wiley, 2022.
Christoforetti, E. “After Architecture: Body as Building.” Pidgin 30. Princeton University. School of Architecture. Spring 2022.
Christoforetti, E. “How Housing Digitalization may Change the Ways the Built Environment is Designed and Built.” Bringing Digitalization Home symposium publication. Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. Fall 2022.
Gordon, Eric & Harlow, John & Teng, Melissa & Christoferetti, Elizabeth. (2021). Toward A Collaborative Smart City: A Play-Based Urban Living Laboratory in Boston. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 39. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2021.2012384.
Nakazawa, P. and Christoforetti, E. “Urban Stack” in Champs Elysees: History & Perspectives, a companion publication to the exhibition by the same name at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, Winter 2020.
D’Ignazio, Catherine & Gordon, Eric & Christoforetti, Elizabeth. (2019). Sensors and Civics: Toward a Community-centered Smart City. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-139-120191008.
D’Ignazio, C., Gordon, E. & Christoforetti, E. (2019) “Participatory Urban Sensing: a Blueprint for a Community-led Smart City.” Nanna Verhoeff, Michiel de Lange and Sigrid Merx (eds.), Urban Interfaces: Media, Art, and Performance in Public Spaces. Special Issue for Leonardo Electronic Almanac (MIT Press) 22, 4.
Christoforetti, E., Cohen, W., and Fash, N. “The Marine Industrial Cloud.” In Architecture Boston. Spring 2018: Port (Volume21n1): 42-43.
Christoforetti, E. “Big Data for Small Places: A Conversation in New Practices of Urban Contexts.” Chapter 1.04 in Codify | Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture, ed. Cantrell, Bradley and Mekies. Routledge, 2017.
Love, Tim and Christoforetti, Elizabeth. “Wash ‘n’ Dry City.” In Architecture Boston. Winter 2013: Coast (Volume 16n4).
Christoforetti, Elizabeth. “Gropius Stereoscopic Performance.” In Architecture Boston. Web. Summer 2013: American Gropius (Volume 16n2).
Christoforetti, Elizabeth. “Growing Middle Space.” In Infrastructure and the Future: Assessing the Architect’s Role, ed. Lawrence, Amanda and Christoforetti, Elizabeth. Northeastern University, 2010.