Upcoming Events

The Independent School for the City organizes various public events, addressing topics that respond to current relevant issues in urbanisation, and offers a platform to other organisation dealing with the city. The events are accessible to all 'urban' professionals in Rotterdam and beyond.

Lecture: Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination

A public lecture by Isa Fremeaux and Jay of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination about their work that brings together artists and activists to co-design and deploy creative forms of direct-action, which aim to be as joyful as they are politically effective. Creation and resistance, protest and proposition are the entwined DNA strands of our practice. Whether training folk or co-organising actions, at the heart of everything we do are horizontal ways of relating and organising ourselves. They call their work experiments, because they never know what might emerge but they do know that the role of art in the Capitalocene can no longer be to show the world to people but to transform it together.

Thursday 19 June, 19:00 - 21:00. Doors open at 18:30

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Jun 27

School's Out! #52 with Kenny Cupers

A lecture by Kenny Cupers, Professor of Architectural History and Urban Studies at the University of Basel, where he co-founded and leads the Urban Studies division since 2015. This lecute will be about his historical and collaborative research in Kenya, exploring the planetary politics of design, the coloniality of infrastructure, and African worldmaking.

The lecture is followed by a short film and drinks at the bar. Friday 27 June 2025, 19:00 - 22:00. Doors open at 18:00. Get your tickets here

Sep 26

School's Out! with Samia Henni

A lecture by historian and writer Samia Henni about built and destroyed environments, dealing with questions of colonisation, nuclear weapons, and deserts. Henni will present her latest research on the French nuclear weapons testing programme (1960–1966) in the Algerian Sahara, bringing together nearly six hundred pages of materials documenting this violent history of France’s nuclear bomb programme in the Algerian desert. Meticulously culled together from across available, offered, contraband, and leaked sources, Henni will present a rich repository for all those concerned with histories of nuclear weapons and engaged at the intersections of spatial, social and environmental justice, as well as anticolonial archival practices. The lecture is followed by a short film and drinks at the bar.

New date! Friday 26 September 2025, 19:00 - 21:00. The lecture is followed by a short film and drinks at the bar.