Svitlana Lavrenchuk is a research scientist, cartographer, and spatial practitioner whose work traces the cultural meanings, representations, and values of landscapes. Moving fluidly between spatial practice, environmental humanities, visual culture, and critical media studies, her work explores how landscapes are perceived, governed, and contested—how they hold memory, agency, and the weight of human and more-than-human histories.

At the Wyss Academy for Nature Svitlana investigates the relational values and materiality of soil, focusing on its entanglements with social, cultural, and ecological worlds, specifically in Madagascar. Her emerging work in the Peruvian Amazon critically engages with indigenous and immigrant environmental values, speculative cartographies, and governance models in shifting landscapes.

With over a decade of experience, she has worked at the intersection of research and advocacy, previously collaborating with Border Forensics and INTERPRT to develop forensic visual investigations for environmental justice. Using interactive cartography, advocacy videos, and visual forensic evidence files, her work has illuminated landscapes of conflict, extraction, and displacement.

As a lecturer in art and architecture, she fosters experimental and participatory pedagogies that challenge dominant knowledge systems and cultivate new ways of seeing, mapping, and knowing. Svitlana is based in Bern, Switzerland / London, UK and works internationally, collaborating with researchers, artists, and local communities to rethink how we relate to the more-than-human world.