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Clare Lyster is an architect and writer whose work focuses on the built environment from the perspective of contemporary theories in landscape, infrastructure and, the socio-technical systems of capitalism. She is author of Learning from Logistics: How Networks Change Cities (Birkhäuser, 2016) and co-editor of Third Coast Atlas: A Prelude to a Plan (Actar, 2016) and States of Entanglement: Data in the Irish Landscape (Actar, 2021). Her writing has appeared in AD, the Architect's Newspaper, Cabinet, Chicago Architect, Harvard Design Magazine, Footprint, Fresh Meat, the Journal of Architectural Education, the Journal of Landscape Architecture, MONU, New Geographies, Places, and Volume and as chapters in edited anthologies on landscape and mobility networks. Research and design produced by her practice, CLUAA, has been exhibited locally and internationally, including at the Art Institute of Chicago, University College Dublin, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2016) and the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (2017). She is a member of ANNEX, an interdisciplinary arts collaboration in Dublin that curated Entanglement, the Irish Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021, Transmediale Arts Festival, 2022 and Galway International Arts Festival, 2022. Lyster has been awarded grants from the Arts Council of Ireland, the UIC OVCR Grants for the Arts, Architecture, and Design and the Humanities and the Graham Foundation. She received the 2019 SOM Foundation Research Prize, the CADA Distinguished Faculty Award (2019-2021) and a UIC Researcher and Scholar of the Year Award, Humanities, Arts, Design and Architecture (2020).