About the Event

We’re very happy to announce Samir Bantal as our 24th speaker at School’s Out!

Samir is the Director of AMO, the research and design studio of OMA. He has led design projects ranging from a new phone for Vodafone and a new retail concept for Korean car brand Genesis, to a high-rise mixed-use tower in Casablanca. Together with Rem Koolhaas, Samir led Countryside, The Future; a comprehensive research project that investigates the interaction between the city and the countryside that culminated in an exhibition in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, opened in 2020. In 2019, Samir worked on Making Doha; an exhibition that explores the role of modern architecture in the development of the city of Doha. In the same year, he collaborated with Virgil Abloh on the design of ‘Figures of Speech’, a retrospective of Virgil Abloh’s work at the MCA Chicago.

Samir will talk to us on March 25 about AMO and his recent projects. As always you can expect some tunes, bites, and a lecture. Doors open at 18:00, lecture starts at 19:00.

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Who's Coming

Everyone interested in urbanism, art, design, architecture, the city and planning

About Us

The Independent School for the City is a playground for all urban thinkers, do-ers and designers – based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It brings together critical and experimental ideas in the field of urban research, design, strategy and activism. Through a range of diverse activities, it offers a platform where urban professionals can meet to informally discuss the challenges facing the modern city.

The school is an initiative of Crimson Historians and Urbanists and ZUS and is rooted in their practices of combining a critical and activist approach to the city with effecting real change through architectural and planning projects. The independent school for the City is founded on a strong belief in an incremental instead of a tabula rasa approach to city planning which blurs the lines between critique and practice on the one hand, and research and policy on the other.

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