Adrian Lahoud is an architect, academic, and writer whose work explores the intersections of climate justice, postcolonial urbanism, and environmental politics. He is the dean of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London, and was the inaugural curator of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, the first international platform dedicated to architecture and urbanism in the Global South.

Lahoud is also the founding director of Second Sea, a research platform that confronts the uneven impacts of climate change by challenging who bears the financial and social costs of its destruction. With global damages from rising seas, surging storms, and floods projected to reach trillions of dollars annually by the end of the century, Second Sea reframes reparations as a central issue in international climate negotiations.

In recent work, the project has focused on communities at the frontlines of sea level rise, documenting the social consequences and heritage losses brought about by coastal erosion across continents. Lahoud’s presentation situates these urgent realities within a broader call to rethink how responsibility, value, and justice are defined in the era of climate crisis.