On the occasion of Milano Arch Week 2023 Around Peripheries, French architect and urban designer Charlotte Malterre Barthes delivers a lecture in the Salone d'Onore. Her research reflects on the possibilities of reconciling work in architecture and urbanism with a dimension of political and social engagement in addressing the contemporary landscape.

Charlotte Malterre Barthes is a researcher and lecturer at Harvard University, ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne. A founding member of the Parity Group and Parity Front, activist networks dedicated to gender equality and diversity in architecture, she is co-author of the award-winning books Migrant Marseille: Architectures of Social Segregation and Urban Inclusivity (2020), Some Haunted Spaces in Singapore (2018) and Housing Cairo: The Response (2016).