Eduardo Rega Calvo delivers the lecture Teaching as a Practice of Exit: Rethinking Architectural Pedagogies Beyond Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation in Spring 2025.
Nora Akawi, Nick Estes, Omar Jabary Salamanca and Zoé Samudzi are Theme Editors for the 79:2 Palestine issue, conceived for the Journal of Architectural Education’s Fall 2025 edition.
[interim] featured in Machines… and Ideas to Postpone the End of the World curated by Loudreaders Trade School at Iowa State University in Fall 2024.
[interim] featured in Chicago Architecture Biennial 2023, This is a Rehearsal, curated by The Floating Museum.
In Fall 2023, Nora Akawi joins Editorial Board of Advisors of the journal Faktur: Documents and Architecture.
Nora Akawi participates in Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium on Real Time in Spring 2023 at Cornell University’s School of Architecture, Art, and Planning, organized by Farzin Lotfi-Jam.
Eduardo Rega Calvo writes about Public Schools as Equity Infrastructure, the inaugural edition of Studio+ in Spring 2022 at the University of Pennsylvania and the first advanced studio connecting all departments in the design school.
[interim] participates in Le Biennali Invisibili in Spring 2021 curated by Animali Domestici (Alicia Lazzaroni and Antonio Bernacchi), Tijn van de Wijdeven, and Eduardo Cassina.
On behalf of [interim], Nora Akawi participates in a panel on Colonial Constructs: Power, Space, and Resistance as part of the Spring 2025 public programs at the Rhode Island School of Design.
On behalf of [interim], Nora Akawi delivers the Fall 2024 Sciame Lecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture of City College of New York titled Unbordering: Notes on Transmission.
In Fall 2024, Nora Akawi joins Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and Mabel Wilson in conversation at The Library is Open 11 for the book launch of Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement.
Nora Akawi participates in Fragmentation: Design and Counter-Design in Palestine symposium at Harvard GSD in Spring 2024.
Nora Akawi joins the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education in Fall 2023.
Eduardo Rega Calvo co-organizes Housing Justice Futures: Philadelphia Forum on Design, Race, and Climate Change in Spring 2023 at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design.
Nora Akawi participates in conference in Spring 2023 at Columbia University’s Heyman Center of Humanities titled Refugee Cities: Symposium on the Urban Dimensions of Forced Migration.
Nora Akawi curates The Cooper Union’s School of Architecture’s public program for the 2021/2022 academic year, including the mini-series Pluriversal and Bewildered.
Nora Akawi joins Khyam Allami in conversation on Tuning, Bias, and the Wild Beyond on tonality, music, biopolitics, education, experimentation and improvisation produced by Radio Alhara, commissioned for Glossary of Common Knowledge 2021’s seminar on the theme of Subjectivization, co-organized by HDK-Valand Academy – Arts and Design, University of Gothenburg, L’Internationale Online and Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana.
JAE 79:2 Palestine Theme Editors publish an Open Letter from March 17, 2025 to the ACSA regarding the Cancellation of the Palestine issue.
Nora Akawi participates in symposium on Spatial Practice Within Contested Geographies at Temple University’s Tyler School of Architecture in Fall 2024.
Nora Akawi participates in Architecture of Repair in Palestine at the Royal College of Art in London in Spring 2024.
Nora Akawi and Eduardo Rega Calvo participate in the NYC 2033: Radicalizing Urban Futures symposium at The New School’s Parsons Design and Urban Ecologies program in Fall 2023.
Nora Akawi delivers the lecture “Unbordering: Notes on Transmission” in Fall 2024 Sciame Lecture Series: Design Matters: The Housing Question Revisited at the Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York
Nora Akawi appointed as member of the International Jury for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, Laboratory of the Future, curated by Lesley Lokko.
Nora Akawi works with Cooper faculty and the Storefront for Art and Architecture to initiate a Cooper-Storefront partnership, inaugurated by the symposium What Black Is This, You Say? in Spring 2023 on the public artwork by Amanda Williams.
Nora Akawi and Eduardo Rega Calvo participate with Sanctuary Architecture in The Cooper Union’s installation Microcosms and Schisms at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 curated by Hashim Sarkis.