Adrian Lahoud is Dean of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art London. His work critically examines concepts of scale and shelter in architecture in light of emancipatory urban and environmental struggles, focusing on the Middle East and Africa. He was Research Fellow on the Forensic Architecture project and head of the MA Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University. He has also led urban design programmes at the Architectural Association and University College London. Recent exhibits include: ‘Climate Crimes’ inThe Future Starts Here, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2018; ‘The Shape of the Eclipse’ in Let’s Talk about the Weather: Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis, Sursock Museum, Beirut, 2016; ‘Secular Cosmologies’ in the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016: After Belonging. Recent publications include: ‘The Mediterranean: A New Imaginary’ in New Geographies, Harvard University Press; ‘The Bodele Declaration’ in Grain, Vapour, Ray: Textures of the Anthropocene, MIT Press; and ‘Nomos and Cosmos’ in Supercommunity, MIT Press.