Dr. Antonio Petrov, Founder of the Urban Future Lab (UFL) and Associate Professor in the UTSA College of Engineering and Integrated Design, has been selected as a Global Diplomacy Lab (GDL) fellow. The lab is a global platform that explores new and more inclusive trajectories of diplomacy beyond traditional politics. Under the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the German government, BMW Foundation, Bosch Foundation, The Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the German-American Fulbright Commission, selected fellows from across the globe explore new tools, reformulating an agenda for collective action. Building on his research presented at the MAS Context event “Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive” in collaboration with the Ryerson & Burnham Art and Architecture Archives at the Art Institute in Chicago, Petrov will further explore Memorial Sites for Empowering Peacebuilding based on the traumas we as societies experience through social conflict, war, dictatorship, colonialism, slavery, racism, even pandemics. The overall objective is to develop strategies to build resilient societies, reconceptualizing how we remember, who is remembered, and who gets to speak through memory and Petrov will actively engage UTSA students in the work he will be conducting with the Global Diplomacy Lab.
