Portrait
Hubert Klumpner is an Austrian architect and co-founder of the architects’ cooperative Urbanthinktank_next, which is internationally considered one of the originators of the ‘Social Turn’ in architecture, a movement that had its breakthrough in 2010 with the MoMA exhibition, ‘Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement’. He currently directs Urbanthinktank_next as Design Principal. Since 2010, Klumpner has been a tenured professor at ETH Zurich, leading the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design. He studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and holds a Master Degree in Urban Design as Fulbright Scholar from the GSAPP at Columbia University in New York, where he also taught as an Assistant Professor from 2007 to 2010. With his architects’ cooperative, he has received numerous awards and prizes, including the 2012 Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the 2010 Gold Holcim Award for Latin America, the 2016 Chicago Museum of Architecture and Design Award, and the 2017 Curry Stone Design Prize. Currently, Klumpner is overseeing the ‘Fábrica de Cultura’, and arts school in the Caribbean city of Barranquilla, as well as a series of other prototypical educational culture buildings in different cities of Colombia, and is developing the design for the General Urban Plan for the City of Sarajevo..
Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou is a filmmaker and urban sociologist born in Mexico City and raised in Chile and the United States. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and English literature from the University of Sussex, a master’s degree in sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has studied filmmaking in Denmark. He specializes in urban and sensory ethnographic filmmaking, and has directed numerous experimental, ethnographic, and documentary films, including The Seven Sisters Indoor Market (2016, with Marios Kleftakis), The Disappearance of Robin Hood (2018, with UrbanThink Tank), and Not Just Roads (2020, with Nitin Bathla), the latter of which won the Society of Architectural Historians’ (SAH) 2022 Film and Video Award. He teaches audiovisual ethnography as a spatial research tool at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ)..
Georgeen Theodore is an architect, urban designer, and Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture and Design, where she coordinates the school’s Master of Urban Design Program. She received a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Theodore is founding partner and principal of Interboro, a New York City- and Detroitand has received many awards for its innovative projects, including the Museum of Modern Art PS1’s Young Architects Program, and the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices Award and Young Architects Award. She is co-author and editor (with Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, and Riley Gold) of The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion. Georgeen is an expert in coordinating complex urban projects that involve many diverse stakeholders, infrastructures and ecosystems. She leads Interboro’s ongoing neighborhood planning, urban design, and resiliency projects in New York, Detroit, and Athens, Greece. Her practice is inextricably linked to her teaching.
