Feifei Zhou is an architect, artist, and researcher whose work investigates the entangled ecologies of human and more-than-human worlds. Trained in architecture and urban design, her practice uses illustration and visual analysis as tools to map and reimagine the infrastructures that shape contemporary landscapes.

Much of Zhou’s research focuses on coastal regions in Southeast Asia, where large-scale interventions such as seawalls, dredging, and land reclamation projects—what she terms “coastal hardenings”—have redefined the boundary between land and sea. By situating her practice within these contested environments, Zhou examines how such top-down developments alter water systems, amphibious ecologies, and the lives of indigenous communities who depend on them.

Her drawings synthesize insights from collaborations with scientists, anthropologists, and environmentalists, reflecting her commitment to transdisciplinary and collective research. Through this process, Zhou’s work opens up new ways of seeing and understanding the Anthropocene: not as a singular narrative, but as a set of uneven developments and shared histories.

At In Focus: Research—co-presented with Future Observatory at the Design Museum—Zhou presented her ongoing investigations, showing how drawing itself can be a collaborative method, evolving alongside the knowledge it gathers to imagine more connected and resilient futures.