BAA Lecture Series 2025: Demonstrations / CELEBRATE with Manijeh Verghese

In our fourth Demonstrations lecture series, Manijeh will talk about how to celebrate the city and its architecture in connection to culture and everyday life.With extensive experience curating critical exhibitions and public programs on architecture, Manijeh will demonstrate how to celebrate the places where we live while exploring the potential cultural narratives have for positively transforming them and challenging the profession’s normative views on how to design our built environment.

Manijeh Verghese (she/ her) is the CEO of Open City. She is also one of the Mayor of London’s Design Advocates and an External Examiner at The Bartlett, UCL. She is on the Board of Trustees for the Architecture Foundation and a member of the advisory board for The DisOrdinary Architecture Project. She was co-curator of The Garden of Privatised Delights – the 2021 British Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale and was the interpretation specialist for the South Asia Gallery at the Manchester Museum that was co-curated by a collective of over 30 local experts.