Adam Kaasa's work moves between urban theory, facilitation and performance. As an interdisciplinary scholar he specialises in the intersection of culture, history and inequality in the city, foregrounding the role of architecture and design. Dr Kaasa holds a PhD in Cities from the London School of Economics and worked for a decade at LSE Cities. He is the Co-Founder and former Director (2015–17) of Theatrum Mundi, an international urban research centre on the culture of cities, and a Senior Tutor at the Royal College of Art where he leads the Master's of Research Programme in the School of Architecture. He was Visiting Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto (2016). Uncommon Building (Spirit Duplicator, 2017), Kaasa's most recent book, documents a collaborative exercise in speculative fiction as a methodology for thinking critically and across disciplines about space, site and the urban. He is co-author of Making Cultural Infrastructure (2017), a two-year long investigation into the spaces of cultural production in London. Between 2014–17, he led the international urban ideas challenges 'Designing Politics' in New York, London and Rio de Janeiro (focussing on ‘free speech’, the ‘urban commons’, and ‘respect’ as design parameters), and organised symposia with weareherevenice on cultural infrastructure at the Venice Biennale (2012, 2014 and 2016). He is a contributing author to The Quito Papers (Routledge, 2018), a joint project between New York University and UN Habitat for Habitat III, and co-developed the subsequent short film with the Kaifeng Foundation (Beijing) with screenings and roundtables in Paris, London, Beijing and Edinburgh (2016–17). He has collaborated with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Akademie der Kunst (Berlin), the Weltkulturen Museum (Frankfurt), the Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Curitiba), the Museu de Arte do Rio and Museu do Amanhã (Rio de Janeiro), the University of São Paulo, New York University, Columbia University, MIT, Harvard GSD, the Southbank Centre, the Young Vic Theatre, the RIBA, the Greater London Authority, the Museum of London and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.