City of Our Dreaming

Laleh Khalili is the Al Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. She has written or edited seven books, including Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration. 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. Gabriela Leandro Pereira is a professor at 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. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, and musician. She is the author of eight previous books, including her latest non-fiction project Theory of Water: Nishnaabeg Maps to the Times Ahead. Her last album, Theory of Ice, was shortlisted for a Polaris Prize.

“In the midst of ongoing genocide, in this time of monsters and of nightmares made policy and flesh, in this interregnum, we are truly lucky to join with these four [Alchemists] and with each other in the hard, joyous, and necessary work of dreaming.”—Christina Sharpe, from the introduction