They Have Watches, But We Have Time: A Takeover by WAI Architecture Think Tank

Name: They Have Watches, But We Have Time: A Takeover by WAI Architecture Think Tank
Start: 2026-10-13T22:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-10-14T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Van Alen Institute

Starts: Tuesday, October 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM EDT
Location: Van Alen Institute
Price: Free

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Swiss designers Iskander Guetta and Quang Vinh Nguyen join WAI Architecture Think Tank for a free Brooklyn evening of readings, performance and discussion about time, design and whose histories an archive preserves.

WAI Architecture Think Tank collage combining tropical plants, archival photographs, political texts and an architecture book.

Plan your visit

Ends: 8:00 PM EDT
Format: In person
Location: Van Alen Institute, 303 Bond Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Organizer: Van Alen Institute and Consulate General of Switzerland in New York
Availability: Tickets reported available

About this event

Swiss designers and Yale researchers Iskander Guetta and Quang Vinh Nguyen bring their Archtober project to Van Alen Institute with the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York. WAI Architecture Think Tank hosts readings, lectures, performance and conversation inspired by Martin Sostre’s Afro-Asian Bookstore and Luisa Capetillo’s mutual-aid restaurants.

Participants include WAI’s Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia with Ema Yuizarix, as well as Luis Othoniel Rosa, Rose Florian, Daniel Jonas Roche, Lane Rick and Nora Akawi. The program asks how design organizes time and whose histories archives preserve.

Doors open at 6 pm, the program begins at 6:30 pm, and a reception follows at 7:30 pm. Free registration is required. Van Alen is on the ground floor and ADA-accessible.

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Last verified: October 8, 2026
Listing provenance: Facts from the official source
Time zone: America/New_York

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Why it belongs on GermanEvents

Part of an Archtober exhibition and public program conceived by Swiss designers and Yale researchers Iskander Guetta and Quang Vinh Nguyen, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York. Both designers participate in this evening. Explicitly verified on host Van Alen and Luma registration pages.