Chiara Zaccagnini //////_ (ch2o)

Architect Artist & Digital Creator | London

Chiara Zaccagnini (CH2O) is a London-based artist and ARB architect working across generative systems, moving image, installation, sculpture and physical fabrication.

Her practice explores landscapes as unstable and evolving systems, shaped by climate, technology and human intervention. Environmental datasets, satellite imagery and computational processes become material for the work, translated into visual, spatial and physical forms.

Rather than using data simply as information to be illustrated, Zaccagnini treats it as an active creative medium: temperature can deform an image, rain can erode a surface, wind can displace a landscape, and environmental change can emerge as movement, distortion, accumulation and trace.

Born in Italy and based in London, Zaccagnini trained as an architect and has worked with Foster + Partners, AL_A (Amanda Levete Architects) and Heatherwick Studio, contributing to major cultural and architectural projects including the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Exhibition Road transformation. This architectural background continues to inform her artistic practice through an interest in systems, materiality, spatial experience and the relationship between the built and natural environment.

Through CH2O, she brings these disciplines together into a continuous practice in which computation, environmental phenomena and physical matter interact—exploring landscapes not as fixed images, but as systems in constant transformation.