Seth Denizen is a researcher and design practitioner trained in landscape architecture and human geography. His published work is multidisciplinary, addressing art and design, microbial ecology, soil science, urban geography, and the politics of climate change. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Scapegoat Journal: Architecture / Landscape / Political Economy.

Seth has taught Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong and University of Virginia. In 2019 he was chosen as the Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and in December of that year Seth completed his PhD in Geography at the University of California Berkeley. His doctoral research investigates the vertical geopolitics of urban soil in Mexico City, where he is working with geologists and soil scientists to characterize the material complexities and political forces that shape the distribution of geological risk in Mexico’s urban periphery.

In 2019 Seth was awarded the SOM Foundation Research Prize with Montserrat Bonvehi and David Moreno Mateos. Their project  investigates the metabolic and political-ecological relations between Mexico City and the Mezquital Valley as the largest and longest running wastewater agriculture system in the world. This project formed the basis of Seth’s 2020 research seminar DES 3385 Thinking Through Soil, and fall option studio “The Right to the Sewage.”