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If you were the mayor of Esch, what would be your first official act? Invitation to FREE PUBLIC QUIZ FOR ALL Thursday, 26 March 2026 6:30 - 8:30 PM CASABLANCA BAR 110 rue de l’Alzette Esch-sur-Alzette Hosted by Matylda Krzykowski and Felix Ganzer for The Esch Clinics Conducted with the support of the students of Master in Architecture of the University of Luxembourg. The format is a civic engagement format designed to foster citizen participation in urban policy discourse. Conceived within the request of “Loosse mir d’Stad maachen!” (“Let’s make the city”), the quiz invites citizens to reflect on local governance and urban development by generating demands for future policy making. The quiz strengthens co-creation and democratic participation, connecting citizens in making the city. The quiz features a variety of questions and activities, ranging from prompts like What’s one place in your city that feels truly public? to imaginative scenarios such as If you were the mayor of Esch, what would be your first three official acts? Participants are also invited to engage in creative exercises, including writing a love letter to Esch and reflecting on questions like, If democracy were visible in the city, what would it look like? #FreePublicQuiz #TheEschClinics #MatyldaKrzykowski #FelixGanzer #Letsmakethecity

COA Podcast Episode 14. On Politics, Monsters, and Superstorm with Noemi Biasetton @noemi.biasetton in conversation with @markusmiessen , @cerreyes , and @kristina_des_anges discussing the entanglements of design, politics, and media, as well as potentials for navigating complex political landscapes in the times of crisis. Noemi Biasetton is a design researcher, writer and editor based in Venice. Her academic studies focus on design cultures and visual representation, with a specific interest in how these are deployed within the social and political dimension. Her practice includes the production of essays and articles, the organization of talks and lectures, and the contribution to research projects for cultural and educational institutions. She is the author of SUPERSTORM. Design and Politics in the Age of Information (Onomatopee, 2024) and curator of the publishing series Bookcloud (bruno, 2022 – ongoing). ©Images: Portrait of Noemi Biasetton © Matteo Vianello Book: « SUPERSTORM. Design and Politics in the Age of Information » (2024). Noemi Biasetton. Onomatopee Spreads: « SUPERSTORM. Design and Politics in the Age of Information » (2024). Noemi Biasetton. Onomatopee #Design #Politics #DesignActivism #Democracy Media

The Master in Architecture at the University of Luxembourg invites applicants who have received a Bachelor in Architecture from universities within or outside the EU. The requirement for the Master is a three-year Bachelor in architecture covering in principle 180 ECTS, or equivalent. Post-graduates in architecture are welcome to apply too. The programme has a registration fee of 400€ per semester. The language of instruction is English. The programme is full-time, two-year and starts every winter semester. Applications for European candidates: Online-application: 01.02 - 25.06.2026 Applications for non-European candidates: Online-application: 01.02 - 24.03.2026 Link to apply in bio.

A fixed-term postdoctoral position is open in Prof. Dr Florian Hertweck‘s team at the University of Luxembourg, starting on 1 September 2026 (full-time, for three years, extendable by two years). The main research topics in the field of architecture, which is part of the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning in the Faculty of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences at the University, range from questions of land ownership to the housing question, resource sufficiency, climate resilience, and the repair society. The University of Luxembourg is characterised by its distinctly international and interdisciplinary nature and the interplay between teaching and research. As the only university in the country, it has a special role in conducting research on local and regional developments. The Department of Geography and Spatial Planning values an inclusive and collegial working environment. Applicants with a PhD in architecture or urban planning and an interest in the interaction of theory, history, and practice, and in particular in design strategies for the socio-ecological transformation of the built environment, are invited to submit a portfolio and a CV. More information about the application process can be found in bio.

It’s a go! Cultures of Assembly and the City of Esch just launched Luxembourg‘s first structural citizen assembly in collaboration with DemocracyNext, an assembly that was designed to be integrated into the infrastructure & administration of the City of Esch - with the ambition for it to become a permanent political instrument #culturesofassembly #democracynext @culturesofassembly @markusmiessen @cerreyes @villeesch @master.arch.lu @uni.lu photos by Gustav Nielsen

Design Studio | Resilience for Casablanca This semester, the 2nd year's design studio focused on Casablanca, addressing the critical lack of green space, extensive soil sealing, and the pressures of densification. Rather than approaching urban growth through demolition or expansion, the studio framed repair and adaptive reuse as key architectural strategies to strengthen urban resilience in the context of climate change. The final jury took the form of a presentation of group projects, in which students explored strategies of repair and revitalisation across different urban conditions. The groups were organised around the topics of vacant buildings, commercial spaces, parkings , and natural areas, combining metropolitan-scale analysis with site-specific design proposals. Instructors: Florian Hertweck Carine Oberweis

The final reviews of “Worlding Airs” design studio took place last week at Casino Display @casino_display ! Following the studio “Worlding Soils”, this semester focused on air as an architectural and environmental concern. Rather than treating air as empty space or background for urban setting, the studio approached it as a medium shaped by extraction, construction, demolition, and unequal exposure in the context of the Capitalocene. The final jury took form of an exhibition spanning six group projects, in which students explored air as a political, technical, and lived condition. The work ranged from investigations into air-conditioning systems in the university building, to rethinking the weather report as a way to talk about politics and everyday experiences on a sealed campus; from fuel-based economies and atmospheric inequality, to polluted river systems and the future “lungs” of Belval. Many thanks to our guest critics for the generous and engaged discussion:
 Josée Hansen @josee_hansen (City of Esch) Carine Oberweis @carineoberweis Charles Rouleau & Filipa Lima @filipam.lima (Casino Display) Instructors: Marija Marić César Reyes Nájera @cerreyes Kristina Shatokhina @kristina_des_anges And above all, thank you to all our 1st semester students for their curiosity, care, and commitment throughout the semester!

Graduation Ceremony – Master in Architecture On December 11th, students of the Master in Architecture celebrated the completion of their studies during the graduation ceremony at the Faculty of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences. The occasion also included the awarding of the OAI Prize for the best master’s thesis in architecture. We are happy to share that this year’s prize went to Jessie Awulaa Dede Addy for her thesis "After Gold. Tracing the Thread of Extraction, Agency and Resistance in Ghana", supervised by Dr. Marija Maric. The project was recognised for its rigorous research and its engagement with questions of extraction, power, and resistance across spatial and social scales. The ceremony brought together graduates, teachers, faculty members, friends, and families in a shared moment of pride and joy. Warm congratulations to all graduates, and best wishes for what lies ahead. 1–3 © @uni.lu #unilu #unilux #architecture #masterinarchitecture #graduation #oai #graduationweek

FAR BEYOND 1M²: REPAIR AND RESILIENCE FOR CASABLANCA Fall Semester 2025 | Design Studio University of Luxembourg: Prof. Florian Hertweck and guest Prof. Carine Oberweis University Mohammed VI Polytechnic: Karim Rouissi and Saad Berrada This semester, the Master in Architecture studio explores the topic “Far Beyond 1m²: Repair and Resilience for Casablanca”, addressing the challenges of soil sealing, lack of green space, and the need for new strategies of reuse in one of North Africa’s most dynamic metropolises. The studio focused on how architectural repair and adaptive transformation can enhance urban resilience while responding to housing needs and environmental pressures. As part of the semester, students travelled to Casablanca for a week-long field trip. The visit allowed them to experience first-hand the city’s contrasts between dense urban areas, and outstanding modernist structures. The trip continued with a joint workshop in Ben Guerir, held in collaboration with students from the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic. Working in mixed groups, participants developed strategies to repair and revitalise Casablanca, starting from existing vacant and abandoned buildings. Through on-site observations, collaborative exchanges, and design proposals, the field trip deepened the understanding of how reuse and repair can become key instruments in shaping a more resilient and inclusive urban future for Casablanca.

PERFORMING RESEARCH Fall Semester 2025 - Seminar “To the affirmative and diffractive co-experimentation with concepts and binaries for justice-to-come” - Karin Murris (2022, dedication page) While researching, theorizing and practicing architecture has traditionally been considered separate but related activities—sometimes inter-acting as praxis—in performing research we inquire on what might emerge when these are always already entangled and intra-acting. Working through our disciplined carrier bag of methods for research in architecture we are un/learning with feminist new materialist, critical posthumanist and postqualitative approaches as we collectively explore the ethical implications of our knowledge-making practices when they are also world-making. As we attend with care to the agencies of matter—both real and virtual—known approaches such as participatory action research (PAR), practice-based research (PBR), arts-based research (ABR), and design-led research (DR) are read/written/practiced, re-turned, and folded with each other, our own practices, and narratives of transition, democracy, genocide, coloniality, and regeneration to develop methodologies-in-the-making for response-able transdisciplinary architectures. It is the pursuit of a researching Otherwise (Bathla, 2024) which reaches for plural worlds, but also a diffractive (Barad, 2007, 2014) researching attentive to and affected by the effects of interfering practices, ideas, and matters in their co-constitutive and iterative performativity. Lecturer: Gustav Nielsen @gustavkvnielsen Collaborators: COA @culturesofassembly ASA @asa.unilu Facilitec @facilitec_luxembourg Centre Formida @centre_formida SIVEC @sivec_recycling DOM Publishers @dompublishers Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press. Barad, K. (2014). Diffracting Diffraction: Cutting Together-Apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168–187. Bathla, N. (Ed.). (2024). Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies. gta Verlag.

OTHER PRACTICES | 03.12.2025 Young Planners and OAI @oai_lu , in collaboration with the Masters in Architecture (University of Luxembourg) @master.arch.lu and the Architecture Student Association @asa.unilu are delighted to invite you to an evening celebrating emerging voices in architecture.  The event will feature the opening of the exhibition of OAI awarded Master Theses, followed by a collective discussion on how we practice architecture today and drinks. Tuesday, 3 December 2025 – 6:00 PM OAI Headquarters, Forum Da Vinci Register on: oai.lu Exhibition Dates: 3.12.2025 – 26.1.2026 ——— Other Practices presents eight master thesis projects from the Master in Architecture Programme at the University of Luxembourg, each honoured with the OAI Award. Spanning 2020–2025, the projects explore themes ranging from the reactivation of public infrastructure and urbanism in contested territories to the social and environmental impacts of resource extraction, housing vacancy, and more-than-human approaches to urban design. United by a commitment to critical spatial practice, they reflect on what “other practices” in architectural research and design can be today amid interconnected environmental, housing, resource, and social challenges. Developed in collaboration with the University of Luxembourg and the Young Planners OAI, the exhibition strengthens dialogue between academia and practice, highlighting the work and perspectives of emerging architects. Works by: Eduardo Dugaich (2020), Dragos Ghioca (2020), Eldin Babić (2021), Aisha Abdullah (2021) Diana Zarnescu (2022), Melsida Babayan (2023) Christine Jiayi Chen and Kristina Shatokhina (2024), Jessie Addy (2025) Opening discussion with: Jessy Addy, Muhammad Hamza, Aru Makanova, Marija Marić, Marina Marins, César Reyes Nájera, Kristina Shatokhina, and Ilia Voulgari Exhibition Coordination: Marija Marić, @cerreyes , @iliavoulg

| TALK | Out of Thin Air w. @elisehunchuck , researcher, editor, curator, writer Tue 28.10, 6:30 pm - 8 pm. @casino_display , 1, rue de la Loge, Luxembourg City. FREE Elise Misao Hunchuck’s talk traces the stories of objects we place into landscapes—from stone markers that shape coastal life to atmospheric infrastructure that imagines particles in the air as harvestable resources. Bringing together architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, and media studies, this transdisciplinary exploration exposes the hidden material practices that construct the so-called natural world. Recognising every landscape as an ongoing collaboration between human and non-human forces, together we’ll ask: what futures become possible when we understand nature not as something to preserve, but as something we are continually shaping—and that, in turn, is constantly shaping us? In collaboration with @uni.lu / @master.arch.lu Graphic design: @inesosni