In 2023 Abidin Kusno Jakarta, City of a Thousand Dimensions (NUS Press, 2023) which explored the practice and politics of urban development in the second largest city in the world. The conversation between Kusno, Lange-Chúrion and Zarobell will consider some of the complexities that planning in Asian megacities introduces, as well as the everyday lives of its denizens who generate cities of their own. The program will also engage some of the themes of the photographs from the exhibition on the first floor, which will be on view before the conversation, with an exhibition opening afterwards.

5:00–5:30 | Doors open & exhibition viewing
5:30–6:30 | A Conversation with Abidin Kusno, Pedro Lange-Churion and John Zarobell
6:30–7:30 PM | Opening Reception with drinks and small bites