Feb 14, 2020
An insight into the designing and building of the “Vertical University” project in Eastern Nepal
We’ve entered the Anthropocene, an era that is witnessing the greatest biodiversity loss since the Dinosaurs era some 65 million years ago. In this context, the way in which we design needs to incorporate not only the...
Feb 14, 2020
Rebuilding Cornerstones: Spatial Justice for Portland’s Black Diaspora
Portland’s history (and present) is riddled with stories of housing discrimination. However, when we discuss the systemic practice of redlining or the history of clearing out predominantly Black neighborhoods to make way for things like the I-5...
Feb 14, 2020
Episode 01: Menna Agha
Theorizing architecture from the point of view of the other
Menna Agha is a researcher and architect. Spatial justice an overarching theme in Agha’s work but it was not a choice born of luxury. She is a third-generation Nubian woman whose family was displaced by the Egyptian state as part of the...
Feb 14, 2020
Reading uneven power structures and racial hierarchies through infrastructure
Zannah Mae Matson’s research and design work focus on the histories and contemporary reinterpretations of landscapes throughout processes of colonization, violence, and state infrastructure projects. Her current project focuses on a...