Architecture Off-Centre
54 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsArchitecture Off-Centre highlights unconventional design practices and research projects, which reflect various emerging discourses within the design discipline and beyond. Hosted by architect Vaissnavi Shukl, the podcast features engaging conversations with exceptionally creative individuals, who, in their practice, have extrapolated the traditional fields of architecture, planning, landscape and urban design to unexplored frontiers.
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On Reincarnating Indian Cities / Karan Saharya
February 25, 2021 01:52 - 48 minutes - 49.1 MB“The evolution of cities is barely ever linear and gradual. It follows an almost cyclical pattern of development that is highly influenced by political and religious currents.” Karan Saharya recently co-taught a course called Reincarnating Cities with Vaissnavi Shukl, where he took a deep dive into the changing architectural articulations of heritage, nationalism and religiosity in the contemporary Indian urban space. Karan Saharya graduated with a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard ...
On the Afterlives of Orbital Infrastructures / Rajji Desai
February 11, 2021 02:28 - 40 minutes - 42.7 MB“It's so paradoxical - something which is so big, something which is so huge… It's almost invisible.” Rajji Desai talks about the afterlives of orbital infrastructures and how these objects in the outer space have an influence on everything that spans from the earth’s high orbits to its high seas. Rajji Desai is an Urban Climate Researcher-Designer at CBT Architects in Boston, where her work focuses on integrating interdisciplinary tools of research with urban planning practices to help ...
On Design Advocacy in the Rohingya Refugee Camp / John Wagner and Nadyeli Quiroz
January 28, 2021 02:49 - 44 minutes - 45.2 MB“Designers must design the conditions that enable things to be created.” John Wagner and Nadyeli Quiroz, recent graduates of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, first became involved in the Kutupalong refugee camp as a part of an option studio led by prominent architect Anna Heringer. They continued their engagement in the camp even after their studio ended – marking the beginning of a research project that critically looks at spaces of migration as well as a practice that promotes a ne...
Introducing "Architecture Off-Centre"
January 16, 2021 12:21 - 4 minutes - 5.92 MBAfter graduating from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2020, Vaissnavi Shukl was about to move to California for a new job when she received a polite rejection from the design firm stating a shift in their hiring priorities due to COVID-19. Unsettled and unsure of her future, she thought about all the incredible people she knew, who were associated with architecture but were doing some pretty incredible stuff. This is the preview of her new (and first) podcast “Architecture Off-Cen...