Programme

11 February, 2026 (Wednesday, evening)

17H30 – Registration

18H30::20H00 – Opening Conference, Nzinga B. Mboup (Worofila)

12 February, 2026 (Thursday, full day)

08H30 – Registration

09H–11H00 Parallel Sessions I

S.14 Plantations, Labor, Resistance and the Built Environment in the Plantationocene and its afterlives [Auditorium 3]

S.4 Open Session [Room 2]

S.3 Education for Hu/manpower: architecture, planning, and construction [Room 3]

11H–11H30 – Coffee Break

11H30–13H – Keynote lecture, Alexander Keese (Université de Genève)

13H–14H – Lunch

14H–16H00 – Parallel Sessions II

S.01 The Photographic Dialectic: Labor and Post-colonial Agency [Auditorium 3]

S.15 Archlabour’s Researchers Session [Room 2]

S. 13 Typology, terms and ideas: Freedom aspirations from late modern experiments and belated colonization [Room 3]

16H–16H30 – Coffee Break

16H30–18H30 – Parallel Sessions III

S.05 The Unseen Hands: Displacement, Erasure, and the Making of the Postcolonial City (1940s-1980s) [Auditorium 3]

S.09 Building Coloniality: Global Landscapes of Architectural Labour [Room 2]

S.10 Designing the end of the World: Internationalism and construction in late Cold War [Room 3]

19H–20H30 – Film screening at Cinemateca Portuguesa w/ Alexandra Areia

13 February, 2026 (Friday, full day)

08H30 – Registration

09H–11H00 Parallel Sessions IV

S.06 The Settlers’ Tools Will Never Build the Indigenous’ House: Informal Housing as a By-product of Colonial Labour [Auditorium 3]

S.07 Laboring Landscapes: Workers’ Agency in Transforming Agricultural Spaces [Room 2]

S.12 Material landscapes of labour exploitation [Room 3]

11H–11H30 – Coffee Break

11H30–12H30 – ArchLabour Presentation, Ana Vaz Milheiro (Dinâmia’CET-Iscte)

12H30::13H00 – Book presentation “Layering the City”

13H–14H00 – Lunch

14H–16H00 – Parallel Sessions V

S.11 Her Know How: gender and participation in the production of colonial/modern spaces [Auditorium 3]

S.16 Undercommons’ ever-presence: Labour and Resistance in Colonial and Post-Colonial Space [Room 2]

S.18 Legal entanglements of labor and architecture in Africa [Room 3]

16H–16H30 – Coffee Break

16H30–18H30 – Parallel Sessions VI

S.02 Housing architecture for colonial and migrant workers. Control, education and everyday organization [Auditorium 3]

S.08 Labour-Worlds: Situated frames and methods for labour and building in colonial South Asia [Room 2]

S.17 Topographies of Forced Labor: (Im)mobility, Disposability, and Liminality [Room 3]

18H30–20H – Keynote lecture, Cecilia Chu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

20H30 – Closing Dinner