Please join us for the First lecture of 2024 with Christian schmid on may 23, 7 pm!

Christian Schmid is sociologist, geographer und urban researcher. He is Professor at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich. His scientific work is on planetary urbanization, comparative urban analysis, and theories of urbanization and of space. He is a founding member of the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA). He wrote an encompassing reconstruction of Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the production of space published by Verso in 2022. He is the co-editor of two books recently published by Birkhäuser: Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison (together with Monika Streule), and Extended Urbanisation: Tracing Planetary Struggles. (together with Milica Topalović).

The Lecture will be moderaten by Philipp Misselwitz. This lecture takes place in cooperation with SFB 1265 - Refiguration von Räumen from TU Berlin.