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Designing For Action: Matias Echanove

Mon, Jul 20    2pm

Matias Echanove

Matias Echanove (GSAPP ‘03) is an urbanologist and author with over 20 years of practice spanning Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He is a co-founder of urbz, a research-action collective with offices in Mumbai, Bogotá, Paris, and Geneva. His work centers on urban transformation through citizen participation. He trained in economics and government at the London School of Economics, urban planning at Columbia University, and urban information systems at the University of Tokyo, and has carried out fieldwork in neighborhoods like Dharavi in Mumbai, Siloé in Cali, and Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn. His work with urbz has been showcased at MoMA in New York, M+ in Hong Kong, and the MAXXI in Rome. He currently teaches at EPFL. In 2026, Verso published his second book, The Homegrown City, co-authored with Rahul Srivastava.

Moderated by Neeraj Bhatia (GSAPP, The Open Workshop)