Godofredo Pereira is an architectural researcher based in London. Graduated as architect from FAUP (Porto), he holds a M.Arch from the Bartlett School of Architecture and has completed his PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University. His research Underground Fetishism investigates political and territorial conflicts within the planetary race to underground resources. He is the coordinator of the Atacama Desert Project, a geo-forensic analysis of environmental violence in the Atacama Desert in Chile. He is also coordinator of History and Theory, and teaches the Axiomatic Earth design studio at the M.Arch Urban Design program at the Bartlett, UCL. He edited the book Savage Objects, INCM, 2012.