Open-Source Urbanism and the Language of the Global Polis

This lecture focuses on Otto Neurath’s collaboration with the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM) and its contribution in deriving a global language of urban planning and design.

Nader Vossoughian is a curator, critic, and theorist whose research interests center on the relationship between politics, knowledge, and the city. His articles have appeared in Bidoun, Metropolis, Design Issues, Volume, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and Transnational Associations. He has recently contributed essays to European Modernism and the Information Society; Otto Neurath's Economic Writings; and Josef Frank 1885-1967 – Eine Moderne der Unordnung. His curatorial credits include "Urban Disobedience: The Work of Santiago Cirugeda," and "After Neurath: The Global Polis," the latter of which took place at Stroom den Haag earlier this year. His first book, Otto Neurath: The Languge of the Global Polis was recently released. Currently, he is a lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art and an assistant professor of architecture at the New York Institute of Technology.