Matias Echanove is an urbanist and author whose practice spans Europe, Asia and Latin America. His work centres on urban transformation and environmental transition through citizen participation. He has led participatory processes and design workshops in cities including Tokyo, Mumbai, Istanbul and Paris. 

He is a lecturer at EPFL and a guest lecturer at Harvard GSD since 2022, and a regular keynote speaker at leading universities and international conferences.

His work has been exhibited at the MoMA (NY), the M+ Museum (Hong Kong) and the Maxxi (Rome). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Oxford University Press and Routledge. His second book, The Homegrown City, co-authored with Rahul Srivastava, was published by Verso, London in January 2026.