PETER LANG is former Professor of Architectural Theory and History at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2013-2019), where he founded R-Lab, a post-graduate research platform that continues as an independent research program R-lab N-A (non-aligned) based in Rome, Italy. Previously he was Associate Professor at the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University. Lang holds a Bachelor in Architecture from Syracuse University and earned a PhD in Italian history and urbanism at New York University in 2000. Lang works on the history and theory of post-war Italian architecture and design, with a focus on sixties Italian experimental design, media and environments. Lang has written and curated a number of projects on the Italian Radical Design and Architecture movement. He has been a member of the Rome based urban arts research group Stalker since 1997.
PHILIPPE REKACEWICZgeographer, cartographer and information designer based in Oslo
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OLA SÖDERSTRÖMprofessor of human geography, researcher and editor, based in Geneva
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ONA LOZURAITYTE & PETRAS ISORAfounders of 'Isora x Lozuraityte Studio for Architecture' in Vilnius
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JAMES TAYLOR-FOSTER (MODERATOR)is a Stockholm based writer, curator, editor, designer and broadcaster
IVAN SERGEJEVNarva chief city architect, technology enthusiast and TEDx speaker
KEITI KLJAVINurbanist, operator of the 'Linnalabor' and editor of Estonian Urbanists’ Review
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DANIEL UREY (MODERATOR)the head of LABLAB research and design laboratory, based in Stockholm, Sweden
SILLE PIHLAKarchitect and co-founder of PART, PhD fellow at EAA, based in Tallinn
JUSTINIEN TRIBILLONco-founder and editor of Migrant Journal, researcher, based in London
MIKE EMMERIKurbanist and partner at Crimson Historians and Urbanists, based in Amsterdam
KIRSTEN RITCHIEconsulting project director and principal at GENSLER, based in San Francisco
IRENE STRACUZZIgraphic designer and researcher, based in Eindhoven
IGNACIO G. GALÁNarchitect, editor and historian, Ph.D., based in New York
PETER LANG (MODERATOR)architecture theorist, operating between the North and South
IEVA ILVESadviser to the President of Latvia for Information and Digital Policy
DAINIS BERZINSChairman of the UPB Management Board, based in Latvia
JONAS ŽUKAUSKASarchitect based in Vilnius
