Space Between is KoozArch's flagship audio series which builds on the belief that conversations, bridging across different spheres, can extend our ability to imagine better futures. Anchored in thinking about space — how it is produced, designed and occupied — these discussions seek to build knowledge, find commonalities, and inspire actions in the real world. We seek to foster intersectional dialogues between architects, artists, geographers, anthropologists, poets, politicians, scientists and dreamers. Every field has something to offer; what we hope to do is look at and learn from the Space Between.
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In this episode, we bring together professor and researcher Kate Crawford, together with architect, and researcher Marina Otero Verzier. This conversation focuses on the material, environmental and social consequences of artificial intelligence.
In this episode, we bring together the architectural academic and artist Keller Easterling, together with the polymathic, but currently politician, Nikil Saval. This conversation traverses housing, land rights, race and how we can build agency towards broader and robust forms of social and spatial justice.
In this episode, we bring together the London-based — and Turner Prize winning — architectural collective Assemble, together with Palestinian architectural and engineering practice AAU Anastas. This conversation focuses on solidarity, conviviality and community building spanning from buildings to broadcasting.
In this episode, we bring together professor Kadambari Baxi, together with architect, urbanist, and researcher Lisa Maillard. This conversation focuses on increasingly urgent and precarious issues of reproductive justice and liberty, as well as forms of solidarity and empowerment.
In this episode, we bring together the interdisciplinary design collective RESOLVE, together with visual artist Sammy Baloji. This conversation explores notions of redistribution and the collective action required to challenge extractive systems and promote decolonial narratives.
In this episode, we bring together Director of Communications at the Yale School of Architecture AJ Artemel, cofounder and executive director of the architecture think tank Anyone Corporation as well as editor of the international architecture journal Log, Cynthia Davidson and and director of Columbia Books on Architecture and the City and contributing editor of the Avery Review at Columbia GSAPP Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt. This conversation focuses on the power of publications, both printed and digital, in fostering critical architectural discourse whilst also reflecting and influencing institutional discourse.
In this episode, we bring together artist Goshka Macuga and curator Béatrice Grenier. Goshka Macuga’s practice is based on historical and archival research and ultimately questions historiography, political structures, and the pressing issues of our time. Béatrice Grenier is a Paris-based curator, writer and editor. She is currently the Director of Strategic Projects & International Programs at the Fondation Cartier. This conversation traverses curatorial and artistic practices focusing on the role that time and history play as well as the importance of engaging in strategic alliances which span from the cultural sector and beyond.
In this episode, we invite the architecture and art historian Professor Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, whose research focuses on histories of modernity, migration, and settlement, to reconnect with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti — fellow academics architects and crucially, cofounders of DAAR, which stands for Decolonising Architecture Art Research. Reflecting on years of research around refugee camps, histories of conflict, domesticity and permanent temporariness, this conversation resonates with historical and contemporary conditions of spatial justice.
