Borders and cities index more an economic system than the previous modern ideals of socio economic stability, health and equity. These economic systems are measurable in how the city form follows finance (Willis) rather than environmental, urban and architecture parameters. What are the consequences of Capitalism in architecture and urbanism? How can we denaturalize cities as business and present alternative scenarios? In a globalized economy, people cannot move but goods can. How can we disclose implicit and explicit political boundaries in the current neoliberal model? What are the possibilities for a Post-Capitalist Urbanism in the Post-Anthropocene? How is technology enabling or resisting these processes? How is the current Feudal Capitalism in Computation reinforcing or displacing this logic and physical and political borders?

Welcome: Dean Maria R. Perbellini
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Introductions and Moderation:
Associate Professor Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
Assistant Professor Dong Sei Kim

Panelists
"Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter"
Sean Anderson, Director of the B.Arch. Program; Associate Professor of Architecture

The Family, Re-appropriation of Housing in NYC
Jana Leo, PhD, Thinker, Activist, Artist  

“The map is the continuation of the territory by other means”. The Campo Maripe community and the shale gas oilfield of Vaca Muerta”
M7red, Pio Torroja and Mauricio Corbalan  

“Aesth-ethics of Sensemaking”
Zulaikha Ayub, PhD Candidate,  Princeton University, School of Architecture; Co-Director Logische Phantasie Lab
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A program of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2021
Virtual Italian Pavilion, curated by Professor Tom Kovak, RMIT, Cities X; Dean Maria Perbellini, Creative Director

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