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Scott Lloyd is an architect and researcher based in Zurich. He has worked in Switzerland, China, Australia and South Africa on architecture, research, publishing and curatorial projects. He edited Infrastructure as Architecture, a publication that investigated infrastructure in terms of social, ecological, economic, political, space/ constructions, and EPI: the journal of the Beijing Architecture Biennial. He conceived and curated Spaces of Flow at the National Museum of China, an independent study to investigate and communicate emerging themes of rapid urbanisation. In 2001 he founded Deliver, for projects dealing with the politics and aesthetics of space. He holds a Masters Degree in architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) where, since 2012, he has been engaged in design research on emerging themes in architecture and the global city with the Urban-Think Tank. With the group, he is coordinator-architect for a multi-disciplinary design research and implementation project for alternative housing prototypes and upgrade methodologies in Cape Town. In addition, he is responsible for the conception and lead of workshops for design build, critical mapping and writing, and the development of new digital planning and analysis tools for scenario planning with associated ETHZ research chairs. He is a founding member of the architecture research group TEN, an association of researchers, architects, designers, writers and makers from leading international research institutions that strive to produce and influence the field of design thinking, applied research, responsive development, and contemporary teaching culture. With the group he directs the Thame Valley Redevelopment project including the forthcoming construction of three public buildings. His work has been published widely and shown at the Venice Architecture Biennial 2010, 2012. He has been invited to speak on alternative methods of architecture and urbanism to various platforms including: ETHZ, Union of International Architects, International forum on Urbanism, German Architecture Museum, National conference of the Royal Australian institute of Architects, African Centre for Cites.