Laura (b.1999, she/her) is an architectural researcher based in London. Spanning essay, poetry, performance and video, her work explores the technologies weaponised by state, corporate and colonial actors to discipline, survey, securitise and pollute space, bodies, objects and stories. Interested by the disorientating effects of computation, automation and gamification on contemporary visual cultures, Laura utilises her practice as a rehearsal space for technical misuse. In doing so, she joins a growing alliance of activists, artists, coders, hackers, and technologists similarly intent on unleashing technology’s subversive and counterforensic potential. 

Laura holds a BA International Relations degree (First Class) from the University of St Andrews and a MA Research Architecture degree (Distinction) from Goldsmiths' Centre for Research Architecture.

She is the Creative Coordinator at ALL PROJECTS gallery and the Communications Coordinator for ASSEMBLE architecture studio. Previously, she was the Project & Publishing Coordinator for OK-RM and InOtherWords.












1Projects


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1B
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1D
1E
Title

How to give back a stolen glance
Stone, Virus, Rubble
Echoes
Shuffle, squeak, ssh!, shutter, click
#europe is not my centre! Medium

Video
Video
Writing
Video
Video

2Public Presentations 


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Title

Biennale Internazionale Donna
Reverberations 
Collapse as Method 
Paul Mellon Centre Early Career Symposium Type

Exhibition 
Exhibition
Screening 
Performance Location

Trieste, Italy
London, UK
London, UK
Bristol, UK Date

2026
2025
2025
2025
Laura Russell
Get in touch
2CCollapse as Method

St James Hatcham Church
London
29 September 2025  Public Talk

MA Degree Show Public Programme
Research Architecture
Goldsmiths University

As part of the public programme for Reverberations, the graduating MA exhibition from the Centre for Research Architecture, MA candidate and architectural researcher Laura Russell was joined by multidisciplinary artist Parham Ghalamdar for a joint film screening and discussion. Together, Parham and Laura invited their audience to consider how defacement and decay can operate as artistic and activist tactics of dissent against the precarious impossibility of contemporary image-making.

1/4 The Sight is a Wound, 2025, dir. Parham Ghalamdar, cinematography Dean Casper/Caustic Coastal. 
2/4 #europe is not my centre, 2025, Laura Russell.
3/4 The Sight is a Wound, 2025, dir. Parham Ghalamdar, cinematography Dean Casper/Caustic Coastal. 
4/4 How to give back a stolen glance, 2025, Laura Russell .