{"product_id":"the-city-of-our-dreaming-the-alchemy-lecture-hardcover","title":"The City of Our Dreaming: The Alchemy Lecture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaleh Khalili\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eV. Mitch McEwen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGabriela Leandro Pereira\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third annual Alchemy Lecture brought together four \"Alchemists\"--thinkers and practitioners working across disciplines and geographies--to share a constellation of ideas for the future. Their urgent, poignant and inventive lectures compose \u003ci\u003eThe City of Our Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e, which shares their ideas for cities and how to shape them according to community needs. Together, V. Mitch McEwen, Laleh Khalili, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer and musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson offer new models for crafting architectures of freedom in disparate imagined spaces. From suggesting a city modeled on buoyancy that reconsiders displacement to a dream of radical kinship and bonds through reciprocal giving, to \"projects paved by the audacity to inhabit\" that are built from dreams--the site from which all Black emancipation begins--and to the ways collectives form at the thresholds between things, \u003ci\u003eThe City of our Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e is a clarion call for new conceptions of city life. The Alchemists imagine the architectures and infrastructures that make possible, inevitable and irresistible gestures of freedom, modes of sustenance, and the necessity and pleasure of breaking bread together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaleh Khalili is the Al Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. She has written or edited seven books, including \u003ci\u003eHeroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e V. Mitch Mcewen leads Harlem-based Atelier Office and teaches on the faculty at Princeton University's School of Architecture. She is one of ten co-founders of the Black Reconstruction Collective, and her design work has been commissioned by MoMA and the Venice Architecture Biennale US Pavilion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gabriela Leandro Pereira is a professor on the Faculty of Architecture at the Federal University of Bahia. She is a member of the Lugar Comum Research Group and coordinator of the Corpo, Discurso e Território Study Group. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, and musician. She is the author of eight books, including her latest nonfiction project\u003ci\u003e Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead\u003c\/i\u003e. Her 2021 album, \u003ci\u003eTheory of Ice\u003c\/i\u003e, was shortlisted for a Polaris Music Prize.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 182\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45481132818511,"sku":"9781478033851","price":175.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/3083\/3487\/files\/VS_wmmOLSG9781478033851.webp?v=1780668338","url":"https:\/\/lumaryon.com\/products\/the-city-of-our-dreaming-the-alchemy-lecture-hardcover","provider":"Lumaryon Universal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}