Cristina Cochior
Cristina Cochior is a researcher and designer, whose work focuses on knowledge organisation systems, situated software, experimental publishing, community-run digital spaces, trans*feminist approaches to technology, and digital infrastructure in relation to alternative modes of organisation. Cochior is a member of the Rotterdam-based everyday technology collective Varia. Recent collaborations include A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers, Digital Solidarity Networks, and Vernaculars Come to Matter. Cochior is currently a PhD candidate at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW and is part of the project Infrastructural Rehearsals. (2025)
She graduated in Visual Communication from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BA, 2010-2013) and Media Design and Communication from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (MA, 2014-2016).
Publications
- Data Workers, ed. Algolit, Brussels: Constant, March 2019, 52 pp, PDF. (English)/(French)
- Networks of Ones Own 2: "Three Takes on Taking Care" (co-editor), Rotterdam: Varia, October 2019, PDF.
- Plotting Data: Acts of Collection and Omission, eds. Cristina Cochior and Ruben van de Ven, March 2020. Publication launch.
- Vernaculars Come to Matter: (Re)Orienting Language and Technology, eds. Cristina Cochior, Julie Boschat-Thorez and Manetta Berends, Rotterdam: Everyday Technology Press, 2021, 112 pp. "What is the role of the vernacular in language and technology? Vernaculars come to matter brings together a range of stories and practices that address this question." With contributions by Clara Balaguer, Cengiz Mengüç, Ren Loren Britton, Rosemary Grennan, Michael Murtaugh. Publisher. Book launch, Materials. Wiki.
- Digital Solidarity Networks (co-author), Rotterdam: Varia, July 2021, 50 pp, PDF. Pad.
- Prospections: "Digital Discomfort", ed. Cell for Digital Discomfort, Utrecht: BAK, 2022ff.
- "More-than-computational reflections (in the form of a report)" (with Manetta Berends), varia, December 2022.
