Space Between #9 Lucy McRae and Jordan Whitewood-Neal on Intimacy and Technology

Space Between #9 Lucy McRae and Jordan Whitewood-Neal on Intimacy and Technology

In our ninth episode—and the first of Season 02—we explore the space between Lucy McRae and Jordan Whitewood-Neal, where vulnerability and abundance emerge as critical lenses for understanding how bodies, technologies, and imaginaries are co-produced. The conversation probes the ethical, affective, and political dimensions of futures shaped by design, biotechnology, and digital systems, asking what it means to design with care, interdependence, and excess rather than control and optimization.

Space Between #8 DAAR (Alessandro Petti & Sandi Hilal) and Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi on Encampments

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.

Space Between #7 Béatrice Grenier and Goshka Macuga on Cultural Alliances

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.

Space Between #6 AJ Artemel, Cynthia Davidson, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt on Architectural Publishing in America

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.

Space Between #5 Sammy Baloji & RESOLVE on Redistribution

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.