KEYNOTE LECTURES
“Urbanization Beyond the Operational Landscape,” Urban-Rural Assembly: Co-Visioning Interconnected Regions, October 1-2, 2024, Aedes, Berlin, Germany
“The Hinterland Question as a Scale Question,” On Scenario: Acceleration, Scaling, Agency, December 14-15, 2023, IUAV, Venice, Italy
“Beyond the Operational Landscape,” The Skopje Project, June 7-8, 2023, Skopje, North Macedonia
“Soils, Genes, Nitrates: The Appropriation of Ecological Surplus across the Cornbelt,” Marginal Urbanities conference, USI, July 10-11, 2023, Mendrisio, Switzerland
“Cartographies of Ecological Surplus,” Cartography: A tool for critical design, colloquium, November 14-15, 2022, UNAM, Mexico DF, Mexico
“From Hinterland to Hinterglobe,” Architectural Humanities Research Association conference, November 12, 2021, Loughborough, UK
PRESENTATIONS | Conferences & Symposia
“The Global Industrial Feedlot Landscape,” Cowborgs in the Polder, Symposium, September 12, 2024 Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands
“Metageographies of the Urbicene,” The Aesthetics of Geopower, Conference, April 4-5, 2024, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Densities of Urbanization: More-than-City, More-than-Human,” (with Victor Sanz) 20th International Planning History Society Conference, July 2-4, 2024, Hong Kong, PRC
“Exhausted Landscapes,” Planetary Urbanisation: Agendas for Research and Action, October 16-18, 2023, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
“Urbanization as Terraforming,” Terraforming Terra, Symposium, November 11-12, 2022, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
“The Dialectics of Operationalization and Peripheralization across the US Cornbelt,” RC21 conference, August 24-26, 2022, Athens, Greece
“From Megalopolis to Planetary Urbanization: Gottman, Doxiadis and the Hinterland Question” IGU conference, July 18-22, 2022, Paris, France
“Operational Landscapes: Infrastructures of the Non-City,” Ludwig Hilberseimer: Infrastructures of Modernity, Conference, October 28, 2021, Bauhaus Dessau, Germany
“Grounding the Metabolism of Planetary Urbanization,” Unpacking Metabolisms, EUGEO 2021 Conference, June 28 – July 1, 2021, Prague, Czechia
“From Urban Economies to Urbanization Economies,” RGS-IBG Annual conference, August 28-30, 2019, London, UK
“From Urban Fabric to Urbanization Fabric”, Design Agency within Earth Systems, Conference, October 26, 2018, Architectural Association, London, UK
“Postcards from the Low Earth Orbit,” Postcards from the Anthropocene, June 22-24, 2017, Edinburgh School of Landscape Architecture, UK
“Operational Assemblies” Association of American Geographers Meeting, April 5-9, 2017, Boston, MA
“Geography and Architecture,” The Ends of Humanities, conference, September 10-13, 2017, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
“Planetary Urbanization and the Production of the Hinterglobe,” Spaces and Flows Conference, November 10-11, 2016, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“Composite Geographies of Planetary Urbanization,” What is the Urban? Conference, April 04-05, 2016, Iowa State University, De Moines, IA
“Terra Urbis,” Lafarge-Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction, Conference, April 07-09, 2016, Detroit, MI
“The other Horizontal Metropolis,” The Horizontal Metropolis, U&U Conference, November 12-14, 2015, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
“The ‘new’ New Exploration,” Association of American Geographers Meeting, April 22, 2015 Chicago, IL
“Computing an Urbanized Future,” Futures Past: Design and the Machine, Conference, November 21-23, 2013, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
“The Mediterranean: From Geography to Design,” What is the Mediterranean? Symposium, February 6, 2013, Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK
“‘Fixing’ Space through Infrastructure,” Writing Cities: Distance and Cities, Conference, May 2011 Harvard, MIT and LSE Cities program, London, UK
“Patras: The Suburban and Waterfront Condition” (with Io Karydi), Cities and Regions in Greece and Mediterranean, Conference, July 2010, Cephalonia, Greece
INVITED LECTURES
“Geographical Urbanism” Lecture at the Coastal Design course, March 25, 2024, University of Genova (online)
“Construction and Appropriation of Ecological Surplus across the US Cornbelt” Lecture at the Methoden der Stadtforschung course at ETH Zurich, October 5, 2023, Zurich, Switzerland
“Metageographies of Planetary Urbanization” Lecture at the PhD seminar, Academy of Architecture, USI, October 25, 2023, Mendrisio, Switzerland
“Urbanization as Geographical Organization” Lecture at the IX International Doctoral Seminar, ETSAS, November 4, 2022, Sevilla, Spain
“Operational Landscapes” Lecture at the Program in Advanced Urbanism, IAAC, October 26, 2022, Barcelona, Spain
“From Hinterland to Hinterglobe” Lecture at the Black Almanac research platform, Medialab en Matadero, October 17, 2022, Madrid, Spain
“Hinterlands of the Capitalocene” Lecture at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Milano Politecnico, March 9, 2022, Milan, Italy
“Operational Landscapes” Lecture at the Urban Synergetics Lab, University of North Carolina, February 10, 2022 (online)
“Is the Mediterranean Urban?” Lecture at the Architectural Association Terrain Lab Visiting School, September 9, 2021 (online)
“Is the World Urban?” Lecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Calgary, June 9, 2021 (online)
“From Ecumenization to Planetary Urbanization” Lecture at the School of Architecture, University of Rome (Roma Tre), November 6, 2020 (online)
“Operational Landscapes: The Metabolic Basis of Planetary Urbanization” Lecture as part of the Global Urban Lab lecture series, September 27, 2019, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands
“Geographies of Ecological Surplus” Lecture at the Landscape Research by Design seminar, March 11, 2019, University of Edinburgh, UK
“Geographies of Ecological Surplus” Lecture at the Sessions on Territory series, Chair of Architecture and Territory, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
“Metageographies of Urbanization” Lecture at Knowing the Urban, FULL Seminar Series, October 5, 2018, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
EXHIBITIONS
Revisiting Ecumenocepos Cartographic contribution to the exhibition Human Settlements, Sustainable Communities, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, September 2024, Athens, Greece
Operationalized Bodies of Planetary Urbanization Cartographic contribution to the exhibition MAP: New Cartographies, New Narratives, BK Expo, Oosterre, December–January 2023, TU Delft, Netherlands
Dataspheres of Planetary Urbanization Animated geovisualization with Urban Theory Lab (GSD) and ETH Zurich (group), 17th Venice Biennale of Architecture, May–November 2021, Venice, Italy
Extended Urbanization in China Animated geovisualization in the exhibition China Goes Urban: The City to Come, Museum of Oriental Art (MAO), October–May 2020, Torino, Italy
Urbanization as World Ecology Animated geovisualization in the exhibition Terrestrial Tales: 100+ Takes on Earth, curated by Marc Angélil and Cary Siress, ETH Zurich, Main Hall, October 2019, Zurich, Switzerland
The Architecture of the Common Ground Geovisualizations for The Architecture of a Common Ground at the Luxembourg National Pavilion (group), curated by Florian Hertweck and Carole Andrea Rumpf, 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture, May–October 2018, Venice, Italy
Geographies of Ecological Surplus: Landscapes of Operationalization Animated geovisualization in the exhibition Torino Graphic Days, October 2018, Torino, Italy
Composite Geographies of Global Accessibility Cartography and animated geovisualization in the exhibition New Issues for the Future of the City, curated by Joan Busquets, Harvard GSD, November 2016, Cambridge, MA
Metabolic Landscapes of Urbanization Experimental cartography in the exhibition New Cities Future Ruins, December 2016, Dallas, TX
Cartographies of Planetary Urbanization Experimental cartography with Urban Theory Lab at the Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism (group), November 2015, Shenzhen, PRC
Operational Landscapes: Towards an Alternative Cartography of World Urbanization Experimental cartography with Urban Theory Lab at the Melbourne School of Design (group), March 2015, Melbourne, Australia
Visualizing Planetary Urbanization Cartography and animated geovisualization at the Centre for Geographic Analysis (CGA) Exhibition, Harvard University, May 2013, Cambridge, MA
ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES & EVENTS
Alter-urbanizations Transitional Territories lecture series, Curator and organizer, 2024–2025 academic year, Berlage Room, TU Delft
Critical Environments Transitional Territories lecture series, Curator and organizer, 2023–2024 academic year, Berlage Room, TU Delft
Projections, Limits, Encounters Event series and exhibition on urban and landscape design and the urban condition, Curator and co-organizer, November 2023, TU Delft
Unknown Grounds International symposium on urban and landscape design and the urban condition, Co-organizer, November 28, 2023, TU Delft
Scales, Subjects, Fabrics Exhibition as part of the Urban Month on the past, present, and future of design and the urban condition, Co-organizer, October 24 – November 2023, Oostserre, TU Delft
After Territory Transitional Territories lecture series, Curator and organizer, 2022–2023 academic year, Berlage Room, TU Delft
Territories of Accumulation Transitional Territories lecture series, Curator and organizer, 2021–2022 academic year, Berlage Room, TU Delft
Positions on Emancipation International conference, Co-organizer, March 31 – April 1, 2017, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Autonoma: Urban Autonomy & the Collective City International conference, Co-organizer, July 1–2, 2016, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens
Geo-graphical Urbanism International conference, Organizer, November 29, 2015, Pirelli Tower, Expo Belle Arti, Milan
Projective Views on Urban Metabolism International conference, Co-organizer, February 7, 2014, Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA
The Mediterranean: Region Making by Design International conference, Co-organizer, March 14–15, 2013, Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA
Writing Cities Conference 2012: Limits and the Urban International conference, Co-organizer, May 19–21, 2012, Harvard, MIT, and LSE, Cambridge, MA