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Cultures of Assembly

Master in Architecture. University of Luxembourg

Cultures of Assembly (CoA) is a long-term research initiative and podcast series run by the Chair of the City of Esch at the University of Luxembourg. CoA is a project for discussing and speculating on spaces of agonism and democracies in the making, it runs in parallel with a new neighbourhood agency in the city centre of Esch-sur-Alzette. CoA aims to generate productive dialogues between urban pasts, presents, and futures, and the various publics and individuals who claim and produce them. We are

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CoA 13. On Spatial Injustice with Najha Zigbi-Johnson

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2025/09/11

Najha Zigbi-Johnson talks about urban struggles and spatial injustice.Najha Zigbi-Johnson is an independent writer, educator, and curator. Her work explores the intersections of the built environment, contemporary Black art, and social movement building. She is the editor of Mapping Malcolm, a publication that explores the legacy of Malcolm X as inscribed in the built environment. She is a graduate of Guilford College and Harvard Divinity School, and was a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of

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00:58:34

CoA 12. On the Art of Assemblies with Florian Malzacher

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2024/12/03

Florian Malzacher talks about assemblies as a form of art and activism.Florian Malzacher is a curator, writer, dramaturg, and currently visiting professor for dramaturgy and curatorial practice at the University for Design and Arts in Karlsruhe. He is the host of The Art of Assembly, a series of lectures and talks about the potential of gathering in art, activism, and politics (since 2021) as well as co-editor of the series Postdramatic Theater in Portraits published by Alexander Verlag Berlin. His

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CoA 011. On Assemblies and Propaganda with Jonas Staal.

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2024/03/01

Jonas Staal shares experiences on assemblies and internationalism contesting imperialist propaganda.Jonas Staal is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, democracy, and propaganda. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit (2012–ongoing). Together with Florian Malzacher he co-directs the training camp Training for the Future (2018-ongoing), and with human rights lawyer Jan Fermon he initiated the collective action lawsuit Collectivize

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CoA 10. On Architecture and Politics with Oana Bogdan...

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2024/01/21

Oana Bogdan and Olaf Grawert discuss about the possible ways of political commitment in architecture. They share ideas and professional experiences confronting the rhetoric of conventional politics that keep citizens away from the debate and from the design and construction of the city.Oana Bogdan is a Belgium-Romanian architect. She founded the architectural firm Bogdan & Van Broeck, now reconfigured as &Bogdan which stands for cooperation. Her problem-solving mentality and cooperative

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CoA 9. On Deliberation with Claudia Chwalisz

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2023/08/02

Claudia Chwalisz talks about deliberation, new democratic models, and commitment as a form of participation. Claudia Chwalisz is the Founder and CEO of DemocracyNext. Prior to that, Claudia served as the Innovative Citizen Participation Lead at the OECD, where she established and analysed around 600 examples of deliberative assemblies around the world, co-authored the "Catching the Deliberative Wave" report, and set standards for implementation and institutionalisation. She was involved in

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CoA 8. Institutional Governance with Giovanna Borasi

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2023/06/30

Giovanna Borasi talks about the agency of architecture culture institutions, contemporary social concerns, scales, and the public. Giovanna Borasi is an architect, editor, and curator. She has been Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) since January 2020. Borasi’s work explores alternative ways of practicing and evaluating architecture, considering the impact of contemporary environmental, political, and social issues on the construction of the built environment. Portrait: ©

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CoA 7. Medium Design with Keller Easterling

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2022/12/12

Keller Easterling talks about the medium of action for design, its interplays, and how to exploit problems instead of trying to fix them. Keller Easterling is a designer, writer and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale. Her books include, Medium Design (Verso 2021), Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) and Organization Space: Landscapes,

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CoA 6. Urban Conflicts with Gabu Heindl

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2022/11/02

Gabu Heindl talks about activist practices, radical democracy, spatial policies, and the political dimension of planning. Gabu Heindl is an architect, urbanist and activist; her Vienna based practice GABU Heindl Architektur focuses on public space, collective housing and urban justice. Gabu Heindl holds a postgraduate masters in Architecture and Urbanism from Princeton University and wrote her PhD on radical democracy in architecture and urban planning at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. From

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CoA 5. Public Practices with Finn Williams

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2022/10/20

Finn Williams talks about architecture public practices and the role of local government in managing inclusive everyday places. Finn Williams is City Architect Malmø in Sweden. He is Co-founder of Public Practice, the social enterprise which is transforming the status of public service in the built environment sector. He previously worked for the Office of Metropolitan Architecture, Croydon Council and the Greater London Authority. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Innovation &

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CoA 4. Relational Politics with Albena Yaneva

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2022/09/14

Albena Yaneva discusses architectural ethnography and its importance behind the scenes of the architectural production. Albena Yaneva isProfessor of Architectural Theory and Director of the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG). She is the author of multiple monographs includingCrafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy (Cornell University Press, 2020) andLatour for Architects (Routledge, 2022).

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CoA 3. The Shapes of EU Institutions with Dennis Pohl

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2022/07/18

Dennis Pohl architecture historian and researcher, discusses how architectural space both reflects and shapes institutions. Pohl is a postdoctoral researcher at Theory of Architecture and Digital Culture at TU Delft, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is guest-editor of the ARCH+ issue "Europe: Infrastructures of Externalization," and the ATR issue "The Architecture of Global Governance."

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CoA 2. Democratic Practices with Rahel Süß

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2022/07/06

Rahel Süß discusses citizens' assembly, democracy and provocation, and spaces deliberate democracy necessitates. Rahel Süß is a political theorist and a postdoctoral visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the founding director of the Data Politics Lab (Humboldt-University of Berlin) and the founder of the journal engagée.

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CoA 1. The Metabolic Institution with Clémentine Deliss

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2022/06/15

Clémentine Deliss curator, cultural historian, and publisher discusses a Metabolic institution and the possibility of neighbourhood museums. In her role as Director of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, Associate Curator of KW Berlin and Guest Professor at the Academy of Arts, Hamburg, she focuses on transdisciplinary and transcultural exchanges.

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