Department of Architecture and Urban Planning

Urbanism Lecture Series: Architecture and The Great Derangement

Urbanism Lecture Series (large view)

(29-02-2024)

You are warmly invited to the urbanism lecture series ‘Architecture and the Great Derangement’ running this academic year. For this series, we took a provocation Amitav Ghosh as a starting point to ask invited speakers to position their work in the light of climate change, resource extraction and financialization. Ghosh highlighted the complicity of Western critical thought in rendering climate change unthinkable. In turn, the speakers of this series will open a debate on how to imagine urban and architectural forms of non-exploitation, non-speculation and non-extraction. 

  • 20.03.2024 –    The Biopolitical Garden - Paola Viganò (Studio PaolaVigano, EDFL Lausanne, IUAV Venice) – EN
    18:00, Auditorium A, Jean-Norbert Cloquet, T2, Campus Ufo, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41
  • 17.04.2024 –    Cement. Building Material of the Anthropocene - Kim Förster (The University of Manchester) – EN
    18:00, Auditorium G, Plateau-Rozier, Campus Boekentoren, J. Plateaustraat 22
  • 15.05.2024 –    Territorial Architecture - Milica Topalovic (ETH Zürich) – EN
    18:00, Auditorium G, Plateau-Rozier, Campus Boekentoren, J. Plateaustraat 22
  • Many thanks for spreading the word among students as well as interested urbanists, architects and researchers.