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A show about space and the consequences of our designs. Each episode features one author on a new book that offers critical ways of understanding the worlds we make. Transdisciplinary perspectives from across the arts, social sciences, and humanities every Tuesday. From Thinkbelt. Produced by David Huber.

  1. 21/07/2020

    Black Towns, Black Futures by Karla Slocum

    Anthropologist Karla Slocum considers the under-recognized contemporary currency of historic Black towns in Oklahoma. Why, despite their small size and uncertain economies, do these places remain attractive?

    11 min

  2. 14/07/2020

    Modern Architecture and Climate by Daniel Barber

    Managing adverse climatic conditions was a significant part of the project of architectural modernism before the proliferation of air conditioning. Daniel Barber traces the conceptualization of the normative thermal interior space—and highlights the rich history of alternative models.

    11 min

  3. 07/07/2020

    Feminist City by Leslie Kern

    Women have been drawn to city life for centuries, despite the persistent tensions, freedom and fear, empowerment and struggle. Geographer Leslie Kern takes an intersectional approach to urban inequality and urges us to change the perspective from which our spaces are designed and built.

    12 min

  4. 30/06/2020

    The Metabolist Imagination by William Gardner

    By conceiving of urban design as constantly changing, the Metabolists opened architecture up to a narrative dimension. William Gardner details the rich exchanges between visionary architects and science fiction authors in postwar Japan.

    12 min

  5. 24/06/2020

    Urban Horror by Erin Y. Huang

    Horror arises when external reality exceeds our internal comprehension. Could it also provoke feelings of resistance we didn’t know we had? Erin Y. Huang deciphers the affective dimension of zones of exception in neoliberal post-socialist Asia.

    13 min

  6. 16/06/2020

    Free the Land by Edward Onaci

    Among its demands for reparations, the New Afrikan Independence Movement sought to create a sovereign nation-state encompassing a large portion of the U.S. South. Historian Edward Onaci contextualizes this radically imaginative movement within past and present struggles for Black liberation.

    12 min

  7. 09/06/2020

    Who Killed Berta Cáceres? by Nina Lakhani

    The murder of Honduran indigenous leader Berta Cáceres was the grand finale of years of terror by the company building the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam—enabled and supported by state forces and security forces, by prosecutors, judges, and politicians. For journalist Nina Lakhani, Cáceres’s life and death is an emblematic story of what is happening all across Central America.

    12 min

  8. 02/06/2020

    Prison Land by Brett Story [rebroadcast]

    Why do we design our landscapes to inflict particular kinds of coercive activities on other people? In these week's episode, a rebroadcast of Interstitial EP005 from September 2019, geographer and filmmaker Brett Story invites us to see, and unsee, the spaces of carceral power.

    10 min
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A show about space and the consequences of our designs. Each episode features one author on a new book that offers critical ways of understanding the worlds we make. Transdisciplinary perspectives from across the arts, social sciences, and humanities every Tuesday. From Thinkbelt. Produced by David Huber.

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  • Creator
    Thinkbelt
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2020
  • Episodes
    45
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2020 Thinkbelt
  • Show Website
    Interstitial

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