This issue of SLUM Lab magazine, "Last Round Ecologies" edited by Alfredo Brillembourg and Denise Hoffman Brandt, has a global scope, covering an array of projects from around the world that reveal facets of the destructive capacity of contemporary city-making and ideas for alternative futures. The content is diverse, with projects by students and faculty from a variety of disciplines and institutions, (ETH Zurich, Columbia University GSAAP, and The City College of New York).  The essays are organized around themes such as Critical Mapping, Territorial Ecologies, Informality and Open Source. Contributors include: Lydia Kallipoliti, Catherine Seavitt, Georgeen Theodore, Deborah Gans, Pamela Puchalski, Nina Rappaport, Kenneth Frampton, Anne Guiney and Michael Sorkin and many more.

The launch for Slum Lab magazine will be a joint party hosted by the Institute for Urban Design and the Van Alen Institute in New York City. We are stoked that this issue of SLUM Lab magazine brings together designers and urbanists in a public conversation about future cities’ potential for coming out on top in the Last Round Ecology, and we look forward to amplifying that discussion under the auspices of two organizations committed to that end themselves. KO!

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