A workshop with Robert G. Pietrusko moderated by Vyjayanthi Rao, presented by the Global Exchange Laboratory (GEL), a project collaboratively led by Rao, Brian McGrath and Jane Pirone, described as "a transdisciplinary space for social scientists, architects and designers to create hybrid methodologies for research and design interventions in global cities collaborations . . . posit[ing] new pedagogies and tools to help democratize processes of design, research and speculation about complex urban ecologies."