In 2010, De Graaf was involved in the founding of the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, where he taught topics such as energy planning, the history of utopian predictions and the advent of the megacity. In 2014, he continued the research on megacities with graduate students at PennDesign, the architecture program at the University of Pennsylvania, under the title Megalopoli(tic)s.
