Concrete Is Fluid Lauren Bon and The Metabolic Studio

Lydia Poncé is an Indigenous Mayo, Quechua, Scottish, Mujer, Actionist, and Water Protector. She is a member of the American Indian Movement, the Community Engagement Director at SoCal350, and the Community Rep and Bridge Builder at 5Gyres. Listen to her interview with Red Rotkopf where they discuss her current work and some of her life stories.

Red, a member of the Metabolic Studio team, interviews Zakaria, a friend who he met at a Thursday night Metabolic Makers Space and Potluck. Listen as Zakaria shares his journey as an activist with us.

Wendy Schneider is the Executive Director of Friends of the Inyo in the Eastern Sierras of California. She shares with us the importance of protecting Long Valley against Los Angeles' imminent water grab that will leave the valley dry and barren.

Harry Williams is a Bishop Paiute Tribe elder and water activist. He brings us insight into the relationship between the Owens Valley and Los Angeles, as well as perspective on what he has coined the "Owens Drained Lake." Williams has spent the past thirty years walking and studying the ancient irrigation ditch system built by his ancestors over around a thousand years ago. He is the main expert on these ditches and has a plethora of interesting stories to share.

Kris Kwaz Hohag is a rapper, a guide, an activist, and a dreamer living at the nexus of some of the most stunning landscape on the planet. As a member of the Bishop Paiute Tribe, Kris has a strong relationship with the landscapes and heritages that surround him. This podcast explores the relationship between Los Angeles and the Owens Valley through water and the impacts this relationship has on life in all its forms.

Sarah Cowles is an Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Architecture at USC. Her research engages dialogue between representation and material processes in the making of landscapes at three nested scales: regional identity, disturbed sites, and the garden. Prior to her appointment at the University of Southern California, she was Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Knowlton School at The Ohio State University, where she co-organized (with Dorothée Imbert) the 2016 international symposium “THIS IS A TEST” on the role of testing and prototyping in contemporary landscape architecture practice. She has held visiting positions at Washington University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Tbilisi State Academy of the Arts in the Republic of Georgia. Her exhibitions include The Elusina Lazenby Experimental Forest (Knowlton School, 2016), The Salt Mountain Disturbance (Artisterium, Tbilisi, 2010) and Elegantly Wasted (MASS MoCA, 2012). In practice with Tom Leader Studio, she coordinated design of the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China, and several large-scale redevelopment projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cowles received her MLA from Harvard University’s GSD and her BFA from the California College of the Arts.
(source: https://arch.usc.edu/people/sarah-cowles)