Through projects and studies in Tokyo, Mumbai, Sao Paulo and Rio, Matias Echanove will present an alternative urban methodology based on an active engagement with urban narratives, everyday life practices, the morphologies of neighborhoods and the user-generated city.

The proposed theme Architecture Utopia Realism aims to further the on-going discussion on the relations of architecture with realism and utopia. In that sense, the speakers are invited to reflect on a multivalent relations of practices and theory of avant-garde, modern and contemporary architecture to concepts and issues, such as utopianism, realism, social realism, socialist realism, neo-realism, utopian realism, new realism and the like.