Martino Stierli is Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, USA. He was previously SNSF Professor for the History of Architecture & Art at the Art History Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Mechtild Widrich is Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. She was previously Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the Department for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

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Whose Participation? Introductory Remarks - Martino Stierli and Mechtild WidrichPart I: Agency
1. The Infrastructure of Participation: Cultural Centres in Postwar Europe - Kenny Cupers
2. Occupied Sites: Tlatelolco and Metropol Parasol - Ana María León
3. Aesthetics and Politics of Participation in 1960s Brazil: From Hélio Oiticica's 'Parangolés' to the Paulista School of Architecture - Martino Stierli
4. Putting on the Map: Suzanne Lacy's International Dinner Party - Elke Krasny
5. Exhibitions in Damaged and Destroyed Architectural Objects in Besieged Sarajevo: Spaces of Gathering and Socialization - Asja Mandic
6. City of Revolution: On the Politics of Participation and Municipal Management in Cairo - Mohamed Elshahed
7. Disobedient Objects - Gavin GrindonPart II: Display
8. Between Theatre and Agora: Thoughts on Exhibition, Drama and Participation - Werner Hanak-Lettner
9. 1912 - Hellerau as Spielraum - Lutz Robbers
10. Participatory Aesthetics: Alexander Dorner's Reorganization of the Provinzialmuseum Hannover (1923-1926) - Sandra Löschke
11. 'The Ultimate Erotic Act': On the Performative in Architecture - Mechtild Widrich
12. Echo-Logy: Working with Allan Kaprow - Philip Ursprung
13. Documentary (Non-)Interventions: Mediated Presence in Public Space and its Artistic Reflection - Katja Kwastek

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