Academics

Lecturing

Aug 2011
University of Southern California (Los Angeles)

Keynote lecture in the context of a week-long workshop (see workshops)

Jun 2011
Pavilion (Bucharest)

On modes of Critical Spatial Practice

Jun 2011
iaspis (Stockholm)

On The Violence of Participation

Jun 2011
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Edinburgh)

On the politics of space

May 2011
Umea School of Architecture (Umea)

On The Nightmare of Participation

May 2011
Kunstraum Lüneburg (Lüneburg)

Opening of the nOffice-designed space;
In conversation with Julia Moritz, Andrea Phillips and Magnus Nilsson

May 2011
Art Brussels (Brussels)

Architist:
a ‘domus’ roundtable discussion
With Alexandra Midal, Joseph Grima, Jan de Cock and Angelique Campens

Apr 2011
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (Stuttgart)

On institutional critique through spatial practice

Apr 2011
Laznia (Gdansk)

On institutional critique through spatial practice

Mar 2011
Kölnischer Kunstverein (Cologne)

The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
Lecture and discussion with Rabih Mroué

Mar 2011
Architectural Association (London)

The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
Panel discussion with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Armin Linke and Samantha Hardingham

Feb 2011
Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design, HEAD (Geneva)

On archival practice and its spatial repercussions

Jan 2011
Winter School Middle East (Kuwait)

On The Violence of Participation
Hosted by Kuwait Cultural Council; see also: www.winterschoolmiddleeast.org

Dec 2010
GAM (Turin)

On The Violence of Participation

Dec 2010
Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology (Krakow)

On The Violence of Participation

Dec 2010
Harvard Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, MA)

On Diwaniyah: the space of consensus

Nov 2010
Städelschule (Frankfurt)

On The Violence of Participation

Oct 2010
Expodium (Utrecht)

On The Violence of Participation

Oct 2010
Goldsmiths College, University of London (London)

On The Violence of Participation

Sep 2010
OK Do (Helsinki)

On The Violence of Participation

Jul 2010
Goethe Institute HQ (Munich)

On territorial perception of Europe

Jun 2010
Studio Olafur Eliasson (Berlin)

On the production of dissensual space

May 2010
Kuwait Cultural Council (Kuwait)

On the Winter School Middle East

May 2010
SKOR (Amsterdam)

On The Violence of Participation

Mar 2010
Stroom (The Hague)

On The Violence of Participation

Feb 2010
Field Operations (New York)

On masterplanning Content

Feb 2010
Serpentine Gallery (London)

On Crossbench Praxis

Nov 2009
Graham Foundation (Chicago)

The Nightmare of Participation
Graham Foundation website

Oct 2009
SKOR Loko at The Kunstlinie Theatre (Almere)

Keynote lecture on critical participation beyond romanticism
SKOR website

June 2009
ProQM (Berlin)

Institution Building. Artists, Curators, Architects, and the Struggle for Space Nikolaus Hirsch, Philipp Misselwitz, Markus Miessen, Matthias Görlich (ed.)
Book launch with the editors and Nina Möntmann

June 2009
NAi – Netherland Architecture Institute (Rotterdam)

The Architecture of Knowledge On Archives and Libraries
Visit Event Website: http://www.thearchitectureofknowledge.nl/

June 2009
Designmai Berlin, International Design Festival

Civic City (ZHdK) presentation and panel
With Jesko Fezer and Matthias Görlich

Apr 2009
University of Innsbruck

Alpine Centre for Critical Spatial Practice
Audition/lecture for Professorship

Mar 2009
BAF Art School, Dubai

Friendship of the Peoples: Contemporary Collaborations
With Zak Kyes, Ralf Pflugfelder, Eva Munz, Ayzit Bostan, Markus Miessen, Shumon Basar and Ingo Niermann
Visit: http://www.baf.ae/bafartschool.html

Mar 2009
Artspeak (Vancouver, BC)

FILLIP: Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism – Sessions
The Nightmare of Participation, with Amy Zion and Kristina Lee Podesva

Feb 2009
Museum De Paviljoens (Almere)

Collaboration vs. Cooperation: Participation beyond models of consensus

Jan 2009
PROGRAM Initiative for Art + Architecture collaborations

A Multidisciplinary Team Talk
With Antonia Hirsch, Julian Kücklich, Anastasia Lavrova, Kirsten Maar and Markus Miessen

May 2008
Berlage Institute

‘Violating Consensus’

Nov 2007
MIT

Frameworks: Modes of Interference On alternative institutional/spatial models
Lecture and discussion with Ute Meta Bauer
Download Event Poster as PDF (108kb)

Nov 2007
The Political Equator II

Centro Cultural Tijuana
On the Lyon project
Download Event Poster as PDF (164kb)

June 2007
Venice Biennale ‘New City-Territories’

IUAV Venice & aMAZE
Art and Urban Practices: Publishing as Project

May 2007
International Design Forum

Dubai
Regarding the launch of Al Manakh and With/Without
With Rem Koolhaas, Antonia Carver, and Shumon Basar

May 2007
inSITE, The Situational Drive (Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement)

Cooper Union (New York)
Round-table panel discussion with Anton Vidokle, Mans Wrange, and Doug Ashford Cooper Union, in cooperation with creativetime and inSITE
Download Poster (628 kb)

Mar 2007
Columbia University (New York)

Lecture on Spatial Practice and Participation beyond Models of Consensus

Mar 2007
Royal College of Art (London)

Conflict as Practice: Spatial Practices beyond Models of Consensus

Feb 2007
Architecture as Initiative Symposium, AA, London

Trigger Talk

Dec 2006
Stuttgart University, IGMA (Stuttgart)

The Violence of Participation
Download Event Poster (2.4 Mb)

Nov 2006
Casco/ Camp for Oppositional Architecture (Utrecht)

Lecturer ‘The Violence of Participation’

Nov 2006
Architectural Association (London)

Lecturer and round-table host
‘Did we mean participate or did we mean something else?’
(with S. Basar, J. Grima, C. Condorelli, and B. Gibson)

Sept 2006
Columbia University (New York)

Lecturer and round-table host ‘Did Someone Say Participate? In this Discussion? Yes!’
(with S. Basar, F. Scott, R. Martin, and G. Shane)
Download PDF Poster (690kb)

Sept 2006
Van Alen Institute/ Storefront Gallery (New York)

Round-table discussion ‘Did Someone Say Participate?’
(with S. Basar, L. Kurgan, S.J. Weiss, L. Skrebowski, and A. Shamir)

July 2006
24hr Interview Marathon at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

Interviewed by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist
‘Did Someone Say Participate?’ An Atlas of Spatial Practice’ launch
(with S. Basar and Abake)

Mar 2006
Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst (Cologne)

Lecturer
‘Spaces of Production’ (with Hirsch, Misselwitz and Goerlich)

Oct 2005
9th International Istanbul Biennale (Istanbul)

Lecturer

July 2004
Architectural Association Summer Symposium (London)

Lecturer
‘The New’ (with M. Cousins, E. Weizman and M. Gosorki)

Oct 2003
Urban Drift – Transformers

Lecturer
‘Transforming Practice’ (with K. Cupers)
Urban Drift