Peter Lang is an independent artist, author, educator and curator. He is a former Professor at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm where he taught postgraduate courses from 2013 to 2019. He previously held the position of Associate Professor at Texas A&M School of Architecture (2001-2013). He earned a PhD in urban studies and Italian history from New York University and a Bachelors of Architecture from Syracuse University. In Stockholm Lang founded R-lab, a public platform for critical research and creative artistic practice, and subsequently launched the initiative “Marvels and Catastrophes,” that works to understand and engage in the culture of disaster. Lang currently is an instructor  at NABA in Rome for the Masters program in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies. He is a co-founder of the video animation production studio YellowGloveLab, which focuses on public art and the environment.