Lecture's IaaC - MAA Winter Lecture Series: John Palmesino

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Monday the 13th of February

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm

John Palmesino / Territorial Agency

John Palmesino is an architect and urbanist. He is Research Advisor at the Design Department of the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. He is researching for his PhD at the Research Architecture Centre at Goldsmiths, where he also teaches. He has previously been Head of Research at ETH Studio Basel / Contemporary City Institute and has co-founded multiplicity, an international research network. Main works include MUTATIONS, USE uncertain States of Europe, Solid Sea. multiplicity’s works have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, at the KW Berlin, at the Triennale di Milano and at documenta11. 

Territorial Agency, founded by John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, is an independent organisation that combines architecture, analysis, advocacy and action for integrated spatial transformation of contemporary territories. Together they run Diploma Unit 4 at the Architectural Association in London investigating The Coast of Europe.

Territorial Agency investigates our urbanised world undergoing profound transformations in the organisation of our polities and their spaces of operation. Territorial Agency addresses these changes and the innovative modalities of organising and managing the relation between polity and space, and architecture and urbanism as the agencies of that relation. 

Territorial Agency is an independent organisation that innovatively promotes and works for sustainable territorial transformations. Territorial Agency works to strengthen the capacity of local and international communities in comprehensive spatial transformation management. Territorial Agency works for the establishment of instruments and methods for ensuring higher architectural and urban quality in the contemporary territories. Territorial Agency's projects channel available spatial resources towards the development of their full potential. Territorial Agency has designed the first integrated vision for the Markermeer, in the Netherlands. The project proposes innovative methods to reinvigorate the water, nature and urban dynamics of the Markermeer region. www.territorialagency.com