Cinema and the City in the Age of Planetary Urbanization

Nitin Bathla is a researcher working at the intersection of urbanization, the environment, society, and the arts. He is the author of the award-winning book Researching Otherwise and the critically acclaimed documentary Not Just Roads . He serves as an editor for the journal Urban Geography , Shared Habitats , and the Urban Political Podcast , and sits on the editorial board of Urban Political Ecology .

Markus Lähteenmäki is a historian and curator of architecture working at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Histories , Europe’s leading journal dedicated to architectural history and a pioneer of open access academic publishing.

Silvia Cipelletti holds a Master’s degree from the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, where she is currently undertaking PhD research on border landscapes through video essays. She has also been working as a guest lecturer and teaching assistant for courses and workshops that investigate the interface between architecture and visual media.

Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou is a filmmaker and lecturer specializing in urban and sensory ethnography. His films include The Seven Sisters Indoor Market (with Marios Kleftakis), The Disappearance of Robin Hood (with Urban-Think Tank), Not Just Roads (with Nitin Bathla), and Hot Cold Wet Dry (with Marios Kleftakis). He teaches audiovisual ethnography to architecture students at the ETH Zurich.