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Call for Applications — Research Assistant (Model-Making) Announcement

The Vertical Geopolitics Lab is seeking a Research Assistant (Model-Making) for an immediate start. This post is a paid opportunity for a limited-term contract of between 15 to 30 hours per week, dependent on availability.
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Public Program — Branding Islands Making Nations

Part of the Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2016 Collateral Events section, the public program entitled Branding Islands Making Nations is conceived to be held in the format of a case study competition intended to open the discourse on added value in design, expanding upon the 15th International Architecture Exhibition’s call to arms by inviting an extended field of spatial practitioners.
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In-Progress Book — Staging Facts on the Ground: On the Historical Role of Built Objects as Markers of Imperial-Colonial Expansion

This in-progress book project advances the original argument that the concept of sovereignty and the practice of architecture have been closely linked throughout the history of Euro-Western imperial-colonial expansion.
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Research-based Exhibition — How to Steal a Country: Russian Edition — Invasion of Ukraine

In its research-based debut exhibition, the lab detailed how Russia has instrumentalized architecture and infrastructure to undermine Ukrainian sovereignty from 2014 to its ongoing full-scale invasion.