Feifei Zhou is a spatial designer, visual researcher, curator, and founder of the interdisciplinary design studio terriStories. Her practice investigates how industrial infrastructures reshape landscapes, ecologies, and forms of life, with a particular focus on the intersections of environmental transformation, social justice, and more-than-human worlds.
Working across installation, drawing, moving image, digital media, and research-based design, Zhou develops projects through long-term fieldwork and collaborations with scientists, anthropologists, designers, and local communities. Her work translates situated observations and empirical research into visual and spatial narratives that make visible the often-overlooked relationships between human and nonhuman actors while opening new ways of imagining ecological futures.
Zhou is the co-curator, with Anna Tsing, of FUNGI, Anarchist Designers, commissioned by Nieuwe Instituut, and co-editor of Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene (Stanford University Press, 2021) and Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature (Stanford University Press, 2024).Her work has been recognized through the ACLS Open Access Book Prize, the More-than-human Fellowship at Future Observatory, Graham Foundation Individual Research Grant, and as a finalist for the Wheelwright Prize at Harvard Graduate School of Design. She was also part of the Feral Atlas Collective, named to ArtReview's POWER 100 in 2020. She has taught at Columbia GSAPP, Cornell AAP, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and has held research and teaching appointments across architecture, design, and environmental humanities programs internationally.
Through terriStories, she develops collaborative, place-based projects that bring together artistic practice, ecological research, and community engagement to explore more just relationships between humans, infrastructures, and the living world.