In this episode, architect Sumayya Vally is in conversation with curator Natasha Ginwala. This episode is hosted by Shumi Bose. While their trajectories — respectively through architectural and curatorial praxes — are somewhat divergent, this conversation finds multiple critical intersections as both describe the practice of generating conversations and finding resonance across ancestral, geographical and cultural disparities.

In this episode, we hear from architect and artist Sabba Khan in conversation with the information designer Federica Fragapane. This episode is hosted by Federica Zambeletti. Acknowledging that we deal with an overload of data, this conversation expands on how two practitioners have been compelled to find new visual vocabularies in their use of image and text, in part to inform and express but also to process embodied experiences of marginalisation and liberation.

In this episode, the Palestinian architect Noura Al-Sayeh will be in conversation with architectural historian Dr Samia Henni. This episode is hosted by Shumi Bose. At a time where global instances of genocide and destruction seem unprecedented in their impacts, this conversation seeks to recover and resolve towards practices of hope and justice, highlighting in particular the necessity for scholarship and fresh energy from new generations.

In this episode, we hear from architect and artist Lawrence Lek, in conversation with the mixed-reality architect Leah Wulfman. This episode is hosted by Federica Zambeletti. Using gamine, world-building and virtuality as a means to explore the terrains of uncertainty, the practitioners in this conversation takes in ideas of redundancies vs. efficiencies, waste and newness and the notion of non-binary tech.

In this episode, we hear from the critic, curator and writer Ekow Eshun together with the artist Danielle Dean. This episode is hosted by Federica Zambeletti. The conversation travels through notions of representation and identification on a planetary scale and the concomitant need for an interior subjectivity of encountering the world; their work in the artworld affords allows reflection on the specificities of experience, narratives of liberty, hostile utopias and simultaneous propositions.

In this episode, architect and artist Emanuel Admassu is in conversation with researcher and architect Setareh Noorani. This episode is hosted by Shumi Bose. Navigating the wilfully wayward practice of both guests, this conversation covers notions of knowledge enclaves and archives; of institutional and disciplinary confines, and afro-diasporic cultures. Through research and artistic practice, both speakers trouble the fringes of architectural and museological processes.

In this episode, we hear from architect Nzinga Mboup, in conversation with designer and researcher Seetal Solanki. This episode is hosted by Federica Zambeletti. Countering the exploitative and extractive approach we have had to the earth, this conversation explores modes of unlearning and relearning how we understand and ‘translate materials, invoking a situated knowledge of context.

In this first episode, you will hear from Federica Zambeletti and Shumi Bose of KoozArch — curators for this season — together with publisher and researcher Alice Grandoit-Šutka, from re:arc institute. We chose to guide the conversations of Season Two through the lens of betweenness — bridging gaps between practitioners and disciplines; moving collaboratively between spaces, concepts, and worlds. In this conversation, we reflect on the unexpected connections that emerged during the conversations for Between Us, and the generosity and sense of collaboration required to create architectures of planetary well-being.