April 2021
"New Material Histories of Architecture"
co-chair of a session in the context of the SAH 74th Annual International Conference, together with Sarah Nichols, with papers from Amy Ogata, Adam Przywara, Giovanna Bassi Cendra, Curt Gambetta, Ingrid Halland
Montreal, CA
November 2020
"Architecture for the Majority World"
chair of the MARG symposium,
MSA, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
October 2020
"Resource: Urban Energy Landscapes and the Question of Density"
response to a panel, hosted by Sascha Roesler, in the framework of the symposium "More or Less Density" with Carola Hein, Dominic Boyer, Fanny Lopez, Milica Topalovic
Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio
January 2020
"What now? Architecture History Today"
organization, input, and chair of a MARG debate
MSA, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
June 2019
"Critiques"
chair of a panel in the context of the conference “Fielding Architecture. Feminist Practices for a Decolonialized Pedagogy"
University of Brighton, UK
May 2019
"Speculative Solarities”
participation in workshop session in the context of “Solarity. After Oil School II"
CCA, Montréal, CA
October 2018
"It's simple: Histories of Architecture and/for the Environment"
speakers: Daniel Barber (University of Pennsylvania), Aleksandr Bierig (Harvard University), Nerea Calvillo (Warwick University), Jiat-Hwee Chang (National University of Singapore), Isabelle Doucet (University of Manchester), Hannah le Roux (University of the Witwatersrand), Kiel Moe (McGill University), Paulo Tavares (Universidade de Brasília) with a response by Meredith TenHoor (Pratt Institute) in collaboration with the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and the Heyman Center for the Humanities
Columbia University, New York, USA
July 2018
"Toolkit for Today"-seminar on "Activisms"
conception, and organization of a one-week summer school*
speakers: Tatjana Schneider (Sheffield University), Pelin Tan (University of Cyprus), Andreas Rumpfhuber (expanded design, Vienna), Torsten Lange (ETH Zurich), Charles Davis II (University of Buffalo)
CCA, Montréal, CA
June 2018
"It's complicated: Conversations on How Architecture and the Environment Relate"
conception, organization, and moderation of an internal workshop in the framework of the multidisciplinary research project "Architecture and/for the Environment"*
speakers: Dominic Boyer, Professor of Anthropology from Rice University, in conversation with Aleksandr Bierig (Harvard University) and Daniel Barber (University of Pennsylvania) on "Energy/Power"; Michael Osman, Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, in conversation with Kiel Moe (Harvard University) and Jiat-Hwee Chang (National University of Singapore) on "Control/Systems"; Gabrielle Hecht, Professor of History at Stanford University, in conversation with Nerea Calvillo (Warwick University) and Hannah le Roux (University of the Witwatersrand) on "Body/Exposure"; Etienne Turpin, philosopher based in Berlin will speak with Isabelle Doucet (University of Manchester) and Paulo Tavares (Universidade de Brasília) on "Post-human/Nature"
CCA, Montréal, CA
November/December 2017
"Which Architectural History for Africa, Today?"
conception, organization, and moderation of a public seminar and an internal workshops*
speakers: Rachel Lee (LMU Munich), Ayala Levin (Northwestern University), Itohan Osayimwese (Brown University), Ola Uduko (Manchester University)
CCA, Montréal, CA
November 2017
"Architecture and/for the Environment"
conception, organization, and moderation of an internal workshop in the framework of a multidisciplinary research project*
speakers: Daniel Barber (University of Pennsylvania), Aleksandr Bierig (Harvard University), Nerea Calvillo (University of Warwick), Jiat-Hwee Chang (National University of Singapore), Isabelle Doucet (University of Manchester), Hannah Le Roux (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg), Kiel Moe (Harvard University), and Paulo Tavares (Universidade de Brasília)
CCA, Montréal, CA
October 2017
"Talking Pictures. A Circuit"
conception of a public event in the framework of a multidisciplinary research project*
speakers: Francesca Ammon (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), Davide Deriu (University of Westminster, London), Reto Geiser (Rice University, Houston), Sara Goldsmith (editor/writer based in London), Catalina Mejia Moreno (University of Brighton), Bas Princen (photographer based in Zurich / Rotterdam), Mika Savela (Aalto University, Helsinki) and Peter Sealy (Harvard GSD, Cambridge)
CCA, Montréal, CA
July 2017
"The Invention of the Environment in Architecture"
conception, organization, and moderation of an internal seminar in the framework of a multidisciplinary research project*
CCA, Montréal, CA
July 2017
"Toolkit for Today"-seminar on "Oral History"
conception, and organization of a one-week summer school*
moderation and speakers: Janina Gosseye (Queensland University) and Naomi Stead (Monash University), with Thomas-Bernard Kenniff (UQAM) and Albena Yaneva (Manchester University)
CCA, Montréal, CA
April 2017
"A Conversation with Kenneth Frampton: Can There Be a Global Architectural History Today?"
conception and moderation of public talks and a roundtable discussion*
speakers: Kenneth Frampton, Mark Jarzombek, Esra Akcan
CCA, Montréal, CA
February 2017
"An Afternoon with Cedric Price no.2"
conception and moderation of a public seminar*
speakers: Samantha Hardingham, Whitney Moon, Kathy Velikov, Mark Wigley
CCA, Montréal, CA
January 2017
"Environmental Histories"
conception, organization, and moderation of a public seminar in the framework of a multidisciplinary research project*
speakers: David Gissen, California College of the Arts
CCA, Montréal, CA
December 2016
"Environmental Histories"
conception, organization, and moderation of a public event and roundtable discussion in the framework of a multidisciplinary research project*
speakers: Daniel Abramson, Boston University; Imre Szeman, University of Alberta
CCA, Montréal, CA
October 2016
"An Afternoon with Cedric Price no.1"
conception and moderation of a public seminar*
speakers: Isabelle Doucet, Samantha Hardingham, Tanja Herdt, Jim Njoo, Ben Sweeting
an event of CCA c/o Lisboa in the context of the 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale
office of Barbas Lopes Arquitectos, Lisboa, PT
October 2016
"Talking Pictures"
conception, organization, and moderation of public event in the framework of a multidisciplinary research project*
speakers: Accattone (Carlo Menon, Sophie Dars), Stefano Graziani, Yasufumi Nakamori
CCA, Montréal, CA
June 2016
"Toolkit for Today"-seminar on "Keywords on the Environment"
conception, organization, and moderation of a one-week summer school*
lecturers: Ashley Dawson, Reinhold Martin, Rafico Ruiz and Jane Hutton
CCA, Montréal, CA
May 2016
"Archtecture and/for Photography"
conception, organization, and moderation of an internal workshop in the framework of a multidisciplinary research project*
speaker: Gabrielle-Bendiner-Viani
CCA, Montréal, CA
April 2016
"Archaeology of the Digital for Research and Practice"
conception, organization, and moderation of a roundtable discussion at the SAH Annual International Conference "New Local/Global Infrastructures"*
speakers: Andrew Witt and Mirko Zardini
Pasadena/Los Angeles, US
January 2015
"Justifications"
moderation of a topical session at the international conference “Architecture as Matter of Contention”**
organized by the journal Candide
RWTH Aachen, DE
November 2012
"What is architecture?"
conception, organization, and realization of an international symposium***
Einsiedeln, CH
November 2009
"10 Days for Oppositional Architecture. Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces"
conception, organization and realization of an international conference****
in the course of Performa 2009
New York, US
March 2009
"Thresholds, architectural and other"
conception, organization and realization of an international symposium***
in the course of the release of the Atlas of Thresholds, 'ARCH+ 191/192'
ETH Zurich, CH
November 2006
"Camp for Oppositional Architecture. Theorizing Architectural Resistance"
conception, organization and realization of an international conference****
Casco, Utrecht, NL
June 2004
"Camp for Oppositional Architecture"
conception, organization and realization of an international conference****
ex-rotaprint, Berlin, DE
* as Associate Director, Research at the CCA, Montréal, CA
** as guest editor of Candide
*** as academic assistant at the Chair for the Theory of Architecture, gta Institute, ETH Zurich, CH
**** as on of the co-editors of An Architektur