
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

