Elise Limon is a writer, researcher and architectural designer based in London.
Her practice explores the social, historical and political resonances of materials and landscapes, and the coalitions that can be formed across disciplinary boundaries to broaden the impact of design research. Elise holds an M.Arch from Yale University and a BA in Architecture from the University of Cambridge. She has taught Advanced Design Studio and History and Theory seminars at Yale, where she held the position of Critic and Housing Fellow at The Yale Urban Design Workshop. She is currently an architectural designer at Feilden Fowles, working on the design of a new educational space for Tate Britain.
Responding to the UK’s Net Zero goals, Elise’s residency will investigate how the minerals embedded in our built environment can offer material, cultural and economic blueprints for the energy transition. Focusing on copper – integral to the British Arts and Crafts movement and contemporary electrical infrastructures – Elise will identify the metal’s presence in everyday objects, architecture and urban systems. Engaging with the landscapes of its extraction, the by-products of its processing, acts of piracy and economies of salvage, Elise will advocate for a “mineral commons” – reframing mineral waste as a key component within the circular
