Talks, Academic Lectures & Publications

Parsons the New School for Design, School of Design Strategies, Work Presentation and Talk, New York, USA, 30 March 2010.
Norwegian University of Science of Technology (NTNU), School of Art and Architecture. Art and Common Space 2-day workshop leader, Trondheim, 11-12 Mar 2010.
â€œQuantum Urbanism Workshop 2010â€.
Ecole SpÃ©ciale dâ€™Architecture (ESA), Lecture, Paris, 22 Feb 2010.
â€œVers un Urbanisme Quantiqueâ€.
Technical University of Crete, Department of Architecture, invited lecturer, Crete, Greece, 17 Dec 2009.
Middle East Spatial Technology Conference(MEST 2009), Keynote Speaker, Manama, Bahrain, 8 Dec 2009.
â€œUrban Design and Quantum Technologyâ€
http://www.mest.bh/speakers.htm
CENTQUATREVUE: SPATIALITE EFFECTIVE, Vol. 1 No. 1, 22 May 2009, Editions Ligne, France.
“Warburg Revu (1ere Partie: Warburg Quantique)â€
Technical University of Delft (TUDelft), Hyperbody Research Group, 1-day workshop leader and lecturer, Delft, Netherlands, 17 Sept 2008.
â€œQuantum Design Workshop 2008â€.
Norwegian University of Science of Technology (NTNU), School of Art and Architecture. Art and Common Space 2-day workshop joint leader and lecturer with Danah Zohar, Trondheim, 6-7 Mar 2008.
â€œQuantum Worldview Workshop 2008â€.
Norwegian University of Science of Technology (NTNU), School of Art and Architecture. Art and Common Space 3-day workshop leader and lecturer, Trondheim, 24-27 Apr 2007.
â€œQuantum Design Workshop 2007â€.
Goldsmiths University of London, Immersivity, Art, Architecture, Sound and Ecology lecture series: invited lecturer, London, 21 Oct 2006.
â€œThe Quameleon Projectâ€
Norwegian University of Science of Technology (NTNU), School of Art and Architecture. Art and Common Space invited lecturer, Trondheim, 13 Oct 2006.
â€œBeyond the Quantum Worldviewâ€.
Royal College of Art (RCA), In the Realm of the Senses Cross-College Lecture Series: invited lecturer. London, 27 Feb 2006.
“Architecture and Sound, Cityness and Waves”
META.morfosis: el museo y el arte en la era digital, MEIAC, Badajoz, Antonio Cerveira-Pinto ed, 2006, pp 146-153.
“Quameleon: territorial pissings in the society-space-time continuum”
Norwegian University of Science of Technology (NTNU), School of Art and Architecture. Art and Common Space invited lecturer, Trondheim, 10 Feb 2006.
â€œArchitecture and the Quantum Worldviewâ€.
Experimenta Design 2005, Bienal de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 16 Sep 2005 .
OPEN TALKS: City & Architecture
Ayssar Arida and Pedro Gadanho, hosted by John Thackara.
The Planned City? ISUF International Conference (refereed), Trani, Italy, 3-6 July 2003.
“The 70-Year Itch or the Dawn of the Quantum City”
Published in Proceedings of the International Conference, A. Petruccioli et al (ed.), Trani, 2003, vol.3, p.1006.
The Planned City? ISUF International Conference (refereed), Trani, Italy, 3-6 July 2003.
“Memory Between Amnesia & Trauma: an urban proposal for the Marijin Dvor district, Sarajevo, B&H.” (with M. Stanton).
Published in Proceedings of the International Conference, A. Petruccioli et al (ed.), Trani, 2003, vol.3, p.956.
Subtle Technologies Conference (selected presenter), Toronto, Canada, 23-25 May 2003.
(Theorising) History in Architecture and Design Conference (refereed: abstract), Oslo, Norway, 25-27 April 2003.
“The 70-Year Itch or the Dawn of the Quantum City”
Published in CON.TEXT, Elisabeth Tostrup & Christian Hermansen (ed.), Oslo, 2003, p.201.
Cities on the Edge international conference (invited keynote speaker), Melbourne, Australia, [ pdf ] 9-11 Oct 2002.
Layla Shamash’s The Leading Edge lecture series (invited speaker), Oxford Brookes University, UK, Feb 2002.
“The New Language of the Quantum City”.
Quantum Everything? (public lecture), Notre-Dame University, Dept. of Architecture, Lebanon, May 2001.
SHAMS Festival for the Arts (keynote speaker), Beirut, Lebanon, April 2001.
“MonoPolyPolis: Banknotes and Beirut”, Arabic version.
Random Access Memory (joint course leader), Advanced Architecture Design Studio, American University of Beirut, Architecture Department, Spring 2000.
Overlaps: The Interactive Edge (joint course leader), Advanced Architecture Design Studio, American University of Beirut, Architecture Department, Fall 2000.
My Rights to My City international symposium & workshop (keynote speaker), Alexandria, Egypt, Oct 2000.
“MonoPolyPolis: Banknotes and Beirut”, English version.
Thinking the City in the Post-Cartesian Paradigm (public lecture), American University of Beirut, Architecture Department, April 2000.
URBAN DESIGN International, Vol. 3 No. 3 Sept 1998, Routledge, UK.
“Quantum Environments: Thesis conclusions”
Resource for Urban Design Information (RUDI), Sept 1998, www.rudi.net.
“Quantum Environments”
Quantum Environments: Urban Design in the Post-Cartesian Paradigm (MA Thesis), JCUD â€“ Oxford Brookes University, Sept 1998. Received Distinction and highest grade ever awarded at Oxford Brookes, became basis for book Quantum City.
Interactive Morphologies: Landscape as a Catalyst for Urban Regeneration & Development (Diploma Thesis, co-author), OBU, March 1998.
Past.Souks.Future (B.Arch Thesis, co-author), American University of Beirut, March 1994.