Podcast S2E1: Listening to Many Voices: Inclusivity and Living Architecture

Can the buildings that we live in come alive? Could such living buildings help us to create a healthier, more sustainable future? Could they become adaptive, resilient structures that care for the planet while empathizing, comforting and inspiring us? The Living Dialogs series brings together scholars and thinkers to collectively reflect on living architecture and its implications for our changing world.

In each episode, guests and listeners are invited to reflect on prompts designed to encourage thoughtful, in-depth discussion. You are invited to contribute your own thoughts and questions, which may be taken up at the Living Dialogs Webinar with the same guests a couple of weeks following each episode’s release (webinar info in sidebar).

This extended format is born of our belief that knowledge creation is also a collaborative and living endeavour – that meaning is not simply created through the exchange of information but that ideas are formed through open and emergent conversations.

Podcast S2E1: Listening to Many Voices: Inclusivity and Living Architecture

With Behnaz Farahi, Bianca Weeko Martin, Michael Lee Poy, Brian Porter

43:15 — https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/podcast/s2e1

March 21, 2022

In this episode, four guests from diverse backgrounds and practices explore the connections between inclusivity and the philosophy and practice of Living Architecture.

Guests

- Behnaz Farahi, PhD,
- Assistant Professor,
- California State University
- http://behnazfarahi.com/
- Michael Lee Poy,
- Assistant Professor,
- OCADU
- https://www.leepoy.design/
- Brian Porter,
- Principal,
- Two Row Architect
- https://www.tworow.com/
- Bianca Weeko Martin,
- Publications Manager,
- LASG
- http://biancaweekomartin.com/

Supported by the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative, Michigan State University Center for Interdisciplinarity and the University of Waterloo.

In the weeks following each podcast, join moderator Sarah Bonnemaison and the podcast guests for a live webinar where they deepen and expand conversation, respond to some of your thoughts, and host a live Q&A.

Stay tuned for the webinar for Season 2, Episode 1, Listening to Many Voices: Inclusivity and Living Architecture, coming soon!

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Podcast References

In the podcast you will have heard the following references; follow the links to find out more.

4:12 – GROVE, 2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture

5:12 – Bianca Weeko Martin: thesis research

5:35 – Michael Lee Poy: Moko Jumbie & Carnival

10:30 – Amelia Jones

17:04 – Sandra Rodegher, PhD: “strawman participation”

17:40 – Sara Ahmed: On Being Included

22:15 – Aldo Leopold

One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies the human community, almost as if it were a separate entity, and calls its findings sociology, economics and history. The other studies the plant and animal community and comfortably relegates the hodge-podge of politics to the liberal arts. The inevitable fusion of these two lines of thought will, perhaps, constitute the outstanding advance of this century.

26:05 – Behnaz Farahi: Can The Subaltern Speak?

26:18 – Patrik Schumacher

30:05 – Behnaz Farahi: Caress of the Gaze

33:05 – Seventh Generation Principle

33:56 – Two Row (Architect)

39:23 – Greta Thunberg

Living Dialogs Team

Rob Gorbet
Executive Producer

Edgar Cardenas
Executive Producer & Podcast Host

Sarah Bonnemaison
Webinar Moderator

Sascha Hastings
Producer & Editor

Bianca Weeko Martin
Web Manager