Invited Lectures
2023
Invited presentation : “Discussion about the book « Abu Dhabi Public Spaces »” at the conference « Mitigating the effects of Global Warming and unlocking new opportunities to achieve sustainability, Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, October 23rd 2023.
Invited Lecture (online) : « The automobile urbanism of Abu Dhabi : From modernist dreams to desert bubbles » at the Habitat Unit, Institute for Architecture, TU Berlin, May 2nd 2023
Invited speaker at a Session organized by Professor Ali Alraouf, entitled: “Cities and Global Events: A critical examination - shattered promises or fulfilled dreams?”, within the 58th World Planning Congress of ISOCARP in Brussels, Belgium (https://brussels2022.isocarp.org/ ). My presentation was entitled: “The 2004 Olympic Games in Athens: Shifting thresholds between the social and the neoliberal”. October 6th, 2022. https://brussels2022.isocarp.org/themes-tracks/special-sessions
2021
Online lecture entitled: “Abu Dhabi; The role of informality on a textbook city” about Abu Dhabi and my book “Abu Dhabi Public Spaces” at the Department of Architecture at the University of Pescara, Italy, after an invitation by Prof. Massimo Angrili. 16/12/2021
Invited participation at the “Mediterranean Urban Design and Regeneration” workshop, conducted at the Italy Pavilion of the Dubai Expo2020, organized by the University of Pescara, November 1st, 2021.
“Between Vertical and Horizontal; Reshaping sociospatial boundaries on emerging Gulf cities.“, invited presentation and round table (together with Dr. Nadia Mounajjed) at the “Shaping the City” Forum, organized by the ECC (European Cultural Center) in Venice, Italy, October 15th, 2021.
“Mina Zayed: Past, Present and Future”, invited Lecture at Department of Architecture of Ancona (University Polytechnic delle Marche), October 5th, 2021.
“Cultural Identity and modernization transformations at the UAE national housing program”, Invited Lecture at the MSc Course: “Cultural heritage and landscapes management”, Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Development, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, May 24th 2021.
2020
“Mina Zayed: Past, Present and Future”, invited Lecture at Department of Architecture of Ancona (University Polytechnic delle Marche), September 29th, 2020.
“Inclusion in and through public spaces in Abu Dhabi”, presentation and round table at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, February 10th, 2020. Parallel event to the World Urban Forum – WUF10.
2019
“Transport and the urban form in the Gulf cities”, presentation and round table at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, April 9th 2019, Abu Dhabi, UAE
« The Abu Dhabi morphologies », Invited Lecture presented at the Department of Architecture, American University of Dubai, UAE, March 31st, 2019.
2018
“A cultural paradox and the double shift of the housing typologies in the Arabic Gulf area: Undergraduate research case studies in Abu Dhabi», Lecture and Poster at the InHeriT Conference, funded by Erasmus+ and the European Union (EU): Sustainable Cultural Heritage Week; Adaptive Reuse: Cultural Heritage towards a new sustainable future, at Chania, Greece, June 3rd 2018.
2017
“The Abu Dhabi 2030 Plan and the Habitat III New Urban Agenda: Seeking common ground through culture”, presented at: Cityscape 2017, April 18th 2017, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
2016
“Greek city block backyards: A symptom of individualism and a regeneration opportunity”, at the Greek Pavilion of the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2016, as part of the “Akalyptos_SKG” Architects’ study network, October 1st 2016, Venice Italy.
“Dynamic Urbanism and Environment in instant cities; The necessity of participatory procedures and the aftermath of 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture”, at the Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (PSUAD), November 2nd 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
«Participatory Planning: Cases of public interference in Greece and thoughts about UAE », at the Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (PSUAD), January 27, 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Before ADU
“Active City Blocks” at NTUA Master’s program at Architecture and space planning, module: Urban planning and environmental legal frame (Professor D.Melissas), 3rd April 2013, Athens, Greece.
Keynote speaker to a Magnesia’s Society of Architects round table discussion entitled: “11th National Architectural Convention (SADAS-PEA): the day after”, with architects Mr. Lyroudias Evangelos (Chairman of the Greek Society of Architects) and Professor Papadopoulos Lois (School of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Volos), Volos 27 March 2011.
Keynote speaker, “Adjunct Lecturers; an in-between space of education”, at Larissa’s Architectural Society conference “Architecture and education”, Larissa Greece, 12 February 2011.
