As part of the Spring 2024 lecture series, Markus Miessen will present his new book, Agonistic Assemblies: On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality (MIT Press, 2024), which calls for a revised form of spatial politics through which spaces—both physical and virtual—can be envisaged to create publics. He’ll be joined afterward in conversation by Neyran Turan, partner at NEMESTUDIO, and Neeraj Bhatia, founder of THE OPEN WORKSHOP.

Neyran Turan is an Associate Professor at the University of California-Berkeley and a partner at NEMESTUDIO, an architectural office that has been recognized with several awards, most recently the Architectural League New York Prize for Young Architects, seven separate citations in The Architects’ Newspaper’s annual Best of Design Awards, Best of Year Honoree Award from Interior Design Magazine, multiple citations at the Core 77 Design Awards, multiple ACSA Faculty Design Awards for outstanding work in architecture and related environmental design fields as a critical endeavor, and multiple Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Awards. Turan’s work focuses on alternative forms of planetary imagination and their capacity for new aesthetic and political trajectories within architecture and urbanism. Turan’s book Architecture as Measure, which was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation, was released by ACTAR Publishers in 2020. Turan was the curator of the Pavilion of Turkey in the 2021 Venice Biennale 17th International Architecture Exhibition.