Maria Dragoi is a writer and researcher interested in ideas of agency and possession institutional spaces. Framing natural history museums as sites of colonial accumulation and control, her current work attempts to map the networks of power which enabled their creation.
She is a PhD candidate at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and Natural History Museum in London.
She has written for Dazed MENA, Worms Magazine, Polyester Zine, Saatchi Yates, Camper Mag, Landscape Institute Journal, and others. She is also the founder of Zgriptor, an interdisciplinary journal and press which aims to promote discussion around themes of time, labour, technology, community action, and communication - unpacking the em(body)ment inherent in all of these topics.