Feven Zeru is an architectural designer and researcher whose work focuses on housing and African modernity, with particular emphasis on Ethiopia. Her practice engages questions of representation, urban inclusivity, and the lived realities of the built environment, approaching African modernity as a situated and plural condition rather than a linear or Eurocentric framework. Through her work, she explores how architecture mediates everyday life, political imagination, and collective belonging. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from TU Darmstadt and a Master’s degree in Architecture from TU Delft, where she graduated with honours. Her research combines archival, ethnographic, and spatial analysis, including studies on Addis Ababa as a political project of Pan-African modernity and on state-built condominium housing. These investigations examine how residents appropriate, reinterpret, and transform modern housing environments through everyday practice. At the Pan-African Biennale, Feven leads the curatorial focus on African Modernity and Spatial Agency, where she develops curatorial frameworks and institutional collaborations that foreground African architectural narratives. Through this role, her work contributes to repositioning Africa not as an object of architectural discourse, but as one of its central producers, shaping contemporary and future conversations on the built environment.