KEYNOTE LECTURES
“Geographies of Ecological Surplus,” Räumliche Konflikte um sozial-ökologische Transformation, September 24, 2025, Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany
“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
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