Invited as a Fulbright Alumni from Harvard University Markus Schaefer gave a lecture with the title the “Business of Cities“: “We live in the Urban Millennium. Rapid urbanization defines new business areas and makes us think of cities as products. But are the “smart cities” which are now being developed truly sustainable? Looking back on 8000 years of urbanism, business might not change our perception of cities, but rather cities could change our understanding of business.”

Together with members of the other teams – berchtoldkrass and yellow z – Markus Schaefer was be interviewed by Rahel Marti, executive editor at Hochparterre.

Michael Rock is the cofounder of 2×4, a multidisciplinary studio focusing on design for art, architecture fashion and cultural clients worldwide, and a longtime collaborator of OMA-AMO and many other architectural offices.

Post2000Talks is a “cycle of conferences architecture related starting in Lisbon during Fall 2010, parallel to the ongoing city major event ‘Triennal of Architecture of Lisbon’. Its purpose is the display and exchange of different architecture experiences worldwide. The guests represent a generation of young professionals whom started their own office/research practices after the year 2000. The program is defined by a continuous line-up of lectures, presentations and debates. This cycle is a collaboration between JA-Project and the think-tank NOGO, and hosted by Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, all based in Lisbon.”