57 episodes

Failed Architecture is a podcast on architecture and the real world. By opening up new perspectives on the built environment, we seek to explore the meaning of architecture in contemporary society. FA challenges dominant spatial fashions and explores alternative realities, reaching far beyond the architectural community. We combine personal stories with research and reflection, always remaining committed to the idea that architecture is about social justice and climate justice, pop culture and subculture, representation and imagination, and everything that happens after the building’s been built.

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Failed Architecture is a podcast on architecture and the real world. By opening up new perspectives on the built environment, we seek to explore the meaning of architecture in contemporary society. FA challenges dominant spatial fashions and explores alternative realities, reaching far beyond the architectural community. We combine personal stories with research and reflection, always remaining committed to the idea that architecture is about social justice and climate justice, pop culture and subculture, representation and imagination, and everything that happens after the building’s been built.

    A Just Transition For The Building Sector w/ Architecture Lobby's GND Working Group

    A Just Transition For The Building Sector w/ Architecture Lobby's GND Working Group

    For this episode, our editor Charlie Clemoes talks to Adare Brown, Elisa Iturbe, Geneva Strauss-Wise, Josh Barnett, and Ryan Ludwig from the Architecture Lobby’s Green New Deal Working Group. The Architecture Lobby (TAL) is a grassroots organization of architectural workers that advocates for just labor practices and an equitable built environment. Founded in the United […]

    • 40 min
    Riding for Deliveroo w/ Callum Cant (pt.2)

    Riding for Deliveroo w/ Callum Cant (pt.2)

    We continue the conversation with Callum Cant about his book Riding for Deliveroo, which, as the name suggests, documents his experience riding for the UK-based food delivery startup Deliveroo, in a bid to understand the new form of “algorithmic management” that the company represents.  In the first conversation, we started by having Callum talk in […]

    • 29 min
    On Discomfort: Episode 7 w/ Exutoire, Juana, María Victoria and María

    On Discomfort: Episode 7 w/ Exutoire, Juana, María Victoria and María

    For Breezeblock #40, editors Maria Mazzanti, Juana Salcedo, and Maria-Victoria Londoño talked with Exutoire (Bui Quy Son and Paul-Antoine Lucas) about queer architecture practices, non-conforming gender and dissident methodologies and utopian futurities. In their conversation, they touched upon what are the norms and normativity in architectural practices and discussed how can we disrupt these codified […]

    • 29 min
    Riding for Deliveroo w/Callum Cant (pt.1)

    Riding for Deliveroo w/Callum Cant (pt.1)

    When the gig economy hit cities across the world in the early 2010s, gig companies promised flexible working hours to their “contractors” and on-demand ease to their customers. In reality, the companies and their algorithms have induced a monumental change in patterns of work and consumption, recomposing commercial districts in pursuit of more efficient last-mile delivery and invisibilising deeply exploitative and often criminally underpaid labour practices. In a bid to understand this new form of “algorithmic management”, researcher Callum Cant took a job riding for Deliveroo, a food delivery startup that was founded in the UK in 2013 by Will […]

    • 27 min
    On Discomfort: Episode 6 w/ Sidra Kamran, Juana, María Victoria and María

    On Discomfort: Episode 6 w/ Sidra Kamran, Juana, María Victoria and María

    For Breezeblock #38, editors María Victoria Londoño-Becerra, Juana Salcedo, and María Mazzanti discuss with Sidra Kamran questions on public space, domestic space, and workspaces for women workers in Pakistan. In the conversation, they explore what forms of experiences and encounters appear in these different spaces and how they shape connections between work, retail, the beauty […]

    • 35 min
    Sobre la Incomodidad: Episodio 5 w/ Iván Argote, Maria Victoria, Juana y María.

    Sobre la Incomodidad: Episodio 5 w/ Iván Argote, Maria Victoria, Juana y María.

    Para el Breezeblock #37, las editoras María Victoria Londoño-Becerra, Juana Salcedo y María Mazzanti hablan con el artista colombiano Iván Argote sobre como su obra se aproxima a diferentes tensiones entre espacio público, monumentos y memoria colectiva. El Breezeblock #37 es la quinta edición de la serie de podcasts On Discomfort (sobre la incomodad) y […]

    • 34 min

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