info=<font color="#ff6600"><b>Vanessa Keith</b></font> is a registered architect and the Principal of Studioteka, a design firm she founded in 2003. She received her Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (SIPA), graduating with a concentration in Economic and Political Development and a focus area in Urban Planning. Vanessa approaches design through a broad interdisciplinary lens that spans and blurs the boundaries between architecture, economic and social development, and urban and environmental concerns.  She is especially interested in envisioning design-oriented technical and engineering solutions to environmental problems, as seen in her upcoming book, 2100: A Dystopian Utopia – The City After Climate Change. This work is published by OR Books as part of the Urban Research Series edited by Michael Sorkin. It looks at 14 case studies of cities around the world, employing emerging technologies and innovative research to solve problems in a future with uncontrolled global warming. The same approach is also evident in a pair of articles written for Urban Omnibus which explored the notion of urban reforestation, climate change and the role of cities, and featured the concept of clip-on architecture, a method by which all of the surfaces of the city are engaged in absorbing greenhouse gases and producing renewable energy. <br><br> Vanessa has been a jury member for D3’s Housing Tomorrow and Natural Systems competitions, and is an Editor of "Kingston Harbor: Development Transects," a book of urban design work published by Columbia University in 2011. She has taught as an Adjunct Associate Professor in Urban Design at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she was responsible for a traveling studio which studied the waterfront in Kingston, Jamaica. She then led a capstone workshop course on new engines of economic growth for downtown Kingston at SIPA which served as a follow-up to the Kingston studio and which made recommendations to the Jamaican government.  She has also taught design studios in architecture and interior design both alone and in collaboration at Pratt Institute, Spitzer School of Architecture (CCNY) and University of Pennsylvania, and was an International Studio Director for the XV Quito Biennale in Ecuador, where she led a group charrette in a study of urban and suburban conditions along the Machangara River. Her built and design work has appeared in notable international design publications such as Frame, Hinge, Surface Asia, Design Bureau and Mark Magazine.