Otero studied architecture at
Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. In 2013, as a Fulbright Scholar, she graduated with an MS in critical, curatorial, and conceptual practices in architecture from
Columbia GSAPP, and in 2016 she completed her
PhD at the
ETSAM with the thesis
Evanescent Institutions, which examined the emergence of a new paradigm for cultural institutions. Between 2013 and 2015, Otero was the director of Global Network Programming at Studio X, Columbia GSAPP. In 2014, she was announced as Chief Curator of the 2016
Oslo Architecture Triennale alongside the Spanish collective
After Belonging Agency. One year later, she was named Director of Research at
Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Dutch institute for architecture, design and digital culture, leading initiatives such as
Automated Landscapes, focusing on the emerging architectures of
automated labor, and
BURN-OUT: Exhaustion on a planetary scale, instigating forms of care for multispecies, collective bodies. In 2018, Otero was the curator of
WORK, BODY, LEISURE, the
Dutch Pavilion at the
16th Venice Architecture Biennale. Since 2019, Marina has held the position of Head of the Social Design Master's program at
Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. In 2022, she received the
Wheelwright Prize with the proposal
Future Storage: Architectures to Host the Metaverse, an examination of a new architecture paradigm for
storing digital data. == Selected publications ==