ContentsPrologue: The Paradox of Collaboration - Eyal WeizmanIntroduction: What Is at Stake?Spatial Practice Beyond the RomanticUndoing the Innocence of ParticipationThe Grand Narratives - Life after Bilbao (Interlude)Consensus as StasisCollaboration and the ConflictualDemocracy Revisited (In Conversation with Chantal Mouffe)Towards a Parallel Reality - The Institutionalization of the LeftLearning from the MarketRisk and FailureThe Uninvited OutsiderThe Future Academy - An Institution in the MakingThe Gray Zone between Criticism and Celebration: Winter School Middle EastWithout MandateThe Crossbench PractitionerPostscript - Jeremy Beaudry and Bassam El BaroniArchitecture with a Big "A" - Interview with Hans Ulrich ObristEpilogue - Carson ChanBibliographyContributors Biographies Acknowledgments