Exhibitions/ Talks/ Events
Invited Talks
selection recent talks
recent/ upcoming
︎︎︎“Water Sensitive Design: A Spatio-Temporal Approach.”
Invited Lecture at the Panorama Ukraine: Working on Water, IABR, Rotterdam, 30 November 2023.
Panorama Ukraine is organised by the Netherlands Urban Network (UNUN), College van Rijksadviseurs (CRa), Vereniging Deltametropool (VDM), Independent School for the City, City of Rotterdam, Nieuwe Instituut (NI), local Ukrainian partners and stakeholders, and the IABR.
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︎︎︎Online lecture recording.
Invited expert ‘Urban Planning and Design’ on behalf of TUDelft - workshop with representatives from three Ukrainian cities – Mariupol, Mykolaiv and Odessa (deputy majors, water department heads). Organised by the City of Rotterdam, Water Strategy and Development Department. Rotterdam, November 30th 2023.
“Co-designing relational change in urban water system: Ontology, diachrony and representation. The case of Secondary Cities in India”.
Invited PhD Seminar at the Department of Architecture and Design of Politecnico di Torino, Torino, 17 November 2023.
“New Kiruna - Snow/Land/Water Script”. Invited lecture at the Department of Architecture and Design of Politecnico di Torino, Torino, 16 November 2023.
“Flux, Erasure, Terraforming”. Invited lecture at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture. In the context of “Urban Futures: Rethinking Architecture and Infrastructure in View of Rising Seas” Seminar Series. Mendrisio, Switzerland, 06 November 2023.
“Technical Lands” in conversation with Jeffrey S. Nesbit & Charles Waldheim editors of the Book ‘ Technical Lands: a Critical Primer.’ With Nikos Katsikis, and Victor Muñoz Sanz. TUDelft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment , Delft, 16 October 2023. ︎︎︎https://urbandesigntudelft.nl/news/book-launch-technical-lands/
"Design as Catalyst to create Urban Climate Resilience: Geographic and Cultural Implications in Extreme Landscapes" invited speaker/ panelist 'Shaping the City:
A Forum for Sustainable Cities and Communities' organised by the European Cultural Centre' AIA New Orleans, 5-6 October 2023 (online participation).
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Photo courtesy: Shaping the City New Orleans. Photo by Federico Vespignani.
︎︎︎https://www.shapingthecity.org/new-orleans-2023/
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"Water Transitions" keynote, 'City’s Future System for Resilient and Healthy City'—Summer Course organised by
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Bangkok, Healthy Space Alliance, Rajamangala University of
Technology Thanyaburi, Thailand, invited speaker, 4 July 2023 (online participation).
"Restoring our Relationship with Water IABR-NI Water Day"—Closing Event Rotterdam Architecture Month,
Nieuwe Instituut (NI) and International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), invited speaker/ panelist with
Shrishtee Bajpai, Henk Ovink, Ziega van den Berk, moderated by Saskia van Stein. Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam,
June 30th 2023. ︎︎︎https://iabr.nl/en/nieuws/waternacht-met-shrishtee-bajpai-30-juni | https://nieuweinstituut.nl/events/water-night-shrishtee-bajpai
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Agrarian Project Final Review. Architecture of Territory—New Ecologies, invited design critic/ panelist,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland, May 31st 2023. ︎︎︎https://topalovic.arch.ethz.ch/Libraries/Events/2023-Agrarian-Project
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"Socio-Ecological Design" invited speaker/ panelist Urban Sustainability and Smart City Event, India-EU Urban
Partnership, funded by the European Union. Chennai, India, 17-18 April 2023.
"Transitional Landscapes: Precisions", keynote, The Architectural Project of Fluid Grounds: From local to
continental approaches.' Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, 21 March 2023.
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"Critical Thinking / Action / Form - To Situate", public lecture, Owning [Up to} the Urban. Taubman College
Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan, USA and University of Virginia School of Architecture,
USA. Februart 1st 2023 (online). ︎︎︎https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ1F1dEkjgM
‘Experiències Europees’ organised by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, gathering educators on
urban design and landscape architecture from five European Schools (TU Delft – T. K. Bacchin ; EPFL Lausanne
– Paola Viganò; KULeuven – Kris Scheerlinck, UCL The Bartlett – Pablo Sendra; Universidade de Lisboa – João
Pedro Costa), Barcelona, Spain, December 15th 2022.
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"Making Waves: Learning and Applying Water Knowledges - Symposium", invited speaker/panelist with artists A
Seat for the Sea, Thanyawan Eamsonthi, Esther Kokmeijer, Fides Lapidaire, De Onkruidenier, Sissel Marie Tonn.
RADIUS Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology, Delft, NL. July 30th 2022.
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Architectural Association Diploma Unit 9, invited design critic/ panelist - year unit review.
Architectural Association School of Architecture, London UK, 2021-2022. (online)
“Water Scripts”, public lecture, Entre Lo Seco Y Lo Mojado: Colaboracion urbana y soluciones basadas en la
naturaleza. Symposium. Escuela de Arquitectura UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, May
30th 2022 (online)
'Intimate Immensity: Finding the North Sea', invited design critic/ panelist - year studio review. Dalhousie
University Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Halifax Canada, 2021-2022. (online)
“The Question of Nature: Material, Aesthetics and Political Form between Mediated Reality and Partial
Representation”, public lecture, Symposium Urban/Peri-Urban/Rural/Natural, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
March 23rd 2022 (hybrid/online).
“Performative Nature”, public lecture, Winter School—WASH in Emergencies through Nature based Solution in
Sanitation. CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India, December 23rd 2021 (online)
"Geographies of Time and Radical Ecologies of Space: Territories of Urbanisation" Urbanistic Projects—New
Generational Paths. keynote speaker. Organised by DIDA Universita degli Studi di Firenze | AHO The Oslo
School of Architecture and Design, November 9th 2021 (online)
Architectural Association Diploma Unit 9, invited design critic/ panelist - year unit review.
Architectural Association School of Architecture, London UK, 2020-2021. (online)
“Figures of Water: Architecture, Politics, Matter”, public lecture, Water Studio | USC University of Southern
California, School of Architecture, USA. Organised by European Cultural Academy, October 1st 2021 (online)
"Water-Land-Atmosphere: The New Urban Project" invited speaker, New Climates in Lausanne/ Hidden Rivers #2
Water Seminar Series. Habitat Research Center EPFL Lausanne, September 24th 2023
PhD in Urbanism University IUAV of Venice - Territories in Transition "Climate crisis and the city", panel
discussant, September 23th 2021. (online)
“Amplified Nature: The Arctic as Landscape of Flux and Imagination”, panel, Climate Change and Adaptation:
(Un)certain lines—Coastal and riverine landscapes | ECLAS 2021 European Council of Landscape
Architecture Schools, ‘ECLAS 2021 STOP and THINK’ Conference, SLU Uppsala Sweden, September 15th 2021
Hosaris India Meeting - India Confederation of Indian Industry. "Industry-Academic Collaborations to Achieve the
SDGs" invited panelist NL. July 24th 2021. (online)
