Markus Miessen: Agonistic Assemblies

California College of the Arts

Please join the CCA Architecture Division in welcoming Mark Miessen for the first installment of the Spring '24 Architecture Lecture Series.

Blattner Hall, California College of the Arts

<a href="https://studiomiessen.com/" title="https://studiomiessen.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Markus Miessen</a> will present his new book, <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915609144/agonistic-assemblies/" title="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915609144/agonistic-assemblies/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Agonistic Assemblies: On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality</a> (MIT Press, 2024), which calls for a revised form of spatial politics through which spaces—both physical and virtual—can be envisaged to create publics. He’ll be joined afterward in conversation by Neyran Turan, partner at <a href="http://nemestudio.com/" title="http://nemestudio.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">NEMESTUDIO</a>, and Neeraj Bhatia, founder of <a href="http://www.theopenworkshop.ca/" title="http://www.theopenworkshop.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">THE OPEN WORKSHOP</a>. Markus Miessen is an architect and writer, director of <a href="http://studiomiessen.com" title="http://studiomiessen.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Studio Miessen</a>. In 2021 he was appointed Professor of Urban Regeneration at the <a href="http://masterarchitecture.lu/" title="http://masterarchitecture.lu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">University of Luxembourg</a>, where he holds the Chair of the City of Esch. Miessen has previously taught at the Architectural Association, London, the Berlage Institute Rotterdam, has been a Harvard GSD Fellow, and has held professorships at Städelschule, Frankfurt, and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received his PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, London, supervised by Eyal Weizman. The initiator of the Participation tetralogy, his work revolves around questions of critical spatial practice, institution building, and spatial politics. As a spatial consultant, he currently works with The Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism. He previously worked with the European Commission, non-governmental organizations, the Republic of Slovenia during their presidency of the EU council, as well as numerous cultural and art institutions worldwide. Amongst many other books and writings, Miessen is the author of <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781934105566/the-nightmare-of-participation/" title="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781934105566/the-nightmare-of-participation/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Nightmare of Participation</a> and <a href="https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/crossbenching-toward-participation-as-critical-spatial-practice/" title="https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/crossbenching-toward-participation-as-critical-spatial-practice/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Crossbenching: Towards Participation as Critical Spatial Practice</a>. He has edited volumes such as <a href="https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/para-platforms-on-the-spatial-politics-of-right-wing-populism/" title="https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/para-platforms-on-the-spatial-politics-of-right-wing-populism/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Para-Platforms: On the Spatial Politics of Right-wing Populism</a>, and <a href="https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/the-archive-as-a-productive-space-of-conflict/" title="https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/the-archive-as-a-productive-space-of-conflict/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict</a>. Together with Nikolaus Hirsch, he is the editor of the book series <a href="https://www.sternberg-press.com/series/critical-spatial-practice-series/" title="https://www.sternberg-press.com/series/critical-spatial-practice-series/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Critical Spatial Practice</a>. Neyran Turan is an Associate Professor at the University of California-Berkeley and a partner at <a href="http://nemestudio.com/" title="http://nemestudio.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">NEMESTUDIO</a>, an architectural office that has been recognized with several awards, most recently the Architectural League New York Prize for Young Architects, seven separate citations in The Architects’ Newspaper’s annual Best of Design Awards, Best of Year Honoree Award from Interior Design Magazine, multiple citations at the Core 77 Design Awards, multiple ACSA Faculty Design Awards for outstanding work in architecture and related environmental design fields as a critical endeavor, and multiple Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Awards. Turan’s work focuses on alternative forms of planetary imagination and their capacity for new aesthetic and political trajectories within architecture and urbanism. Turan’s book <a href="http://r" title="http://r" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Architecture as Measure</a>, which was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation, was released by ACTAR Publishers in 2020. Turan was the curator of the Pavilion of Turkey in the 2021 Venice Biennale 17th International Architecture Exhibition. Neeraj Bhatia is an architect, urban designer, and educator whose work resides at the intersection of politics, infrastructure, and urbanism. He is the founder of the design practice <a href="http://www.theopenworkshop.ca/" title="http://www.theopenworkshop.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">THE OPEN WORKSHOP</a> and an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts where he directs the <a href="https://www.urbanworks.cca.edu/" title="https://www.urbanworks.cca.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Urban Works Agency,</a> an urbanism research lab in the Architecture Division. Select honors include the Architectural League Young Architects Prize, Emerging Leaders Award from Design Intelligence, and the Canadian Prix de Rome. THE OPEN WORKSHOP’s design-research has been commissioned by the Seoul Biennale, Venice Biennale, Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, among other venues. Neeraj is author of the book, <a href="https://appliedresearchanddesign.com/product/new-investigations-in-collective-form" title="https://appliedresearchanddesign.com/product/new-investigations-in-collective-form" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">New Investigations in Collective Form</a>, and co-editor of <a href="https://brkt.org/issue/content/13/bracket-takes-action" title="https://brkt.org/issue/content/13/bracket-takes-action" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bracket [Takes Action]</a>, <a href="https://brkt.org/issue/content/46/bracket-on-sharing" title="https://brkt.org/issue/content/46/bracket-on-sharing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bracket [On Sharing]</a>, and <a href="https://actar.com/product/the-petropolis-of-tomorrow/" title="https://actar.com/product/the-petropolis-of-tomorrow/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Petropolis of Tomorrow</a>.

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