Marija Maric is an architect, working as a postdoctoral research associate at the Master in Architecture Programme of the University of Luxembourg. In 2020, she obtained her doctoral degree from the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich. Her dissertation, titled ‘Real Estate Fiction. Branding Industries and the Construction of Global Urban Imaginaries’ examined the role of communication strategists in the mediation, design and globalisation of the built environment. Marija's research is organised around the questions of property, real estate, media, and the production of built environment and urban imaginaries in the context of global capitalism and global flow of information.