Podcast: A Pinch of Doubt

Episode: 16

Title: Talking with Aurgho Jyoti

Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, looking into issues (hopefully) critical to architecture and urbanism.

Guest: Aurgho Jyoti is the Founder and Creative Director of AUR (Architecture Urbanism Research LLC), an international architecture practice operating out of New York and New Delhi. His work addresses the notion of time in architecture, creating interventions that provide 'spatial specificity' and 'temporal continuity.

We discuss: architecture, urbanism, forming a practice significance, disciplinary boundaries, participatory urbanism, the Partition of India, the value of slowness, and beyond.

Some images of projects being discussed can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CPAw2MTMuI5/

For more information on Aurgho's work, go here:

https://www.a-u-r.co/

Audio mastering and editing: FlomoNotio (Sri Lanka)

Intro and exit music: Sampled from "The Church of the Transfiguration" by Roger Plexico (Track 4 of Album: No Man's Land) shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Logo design by Ujal Gorchu.

Podcast: A Pinch of Doubt

Episode: 15

Title: Talking with Kevin Reed

Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to architecture and urbanism.

Guest: Kevin Reed, Associate Professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, and Director of the Climate Extremes Modeling Group.

We discuss: How he got into the realm of marine and atmospheric sciences; the world of academia and policy; the Climate Extremes Modeling Group and its current trajectory; the impact of climate change on extreme weather; the impact of intensified extreme weather on urban infrastructure (specifically stormwater); and the rising intrigue of working within disciplinary overlaps. Have a listen.

Audio mastering and editing: FlomoNotio (Sri Lanka)

Intro and exit music: Sampled from "The Church of the Transfiguration" by Roger Plexico (Track 4 of Album: No Man's Land) shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Logo design by Ujal Gorchu.

Podcast: A Pinch of Doubt

Episode: 14

Title: Talking with Marcela Aragüez

Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to architecture and urbanism.

Guest: Marcela Aragüez, Professor and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in Architecture, at IE School of Architecture and Design.

We discuss: Cedric Price and his Potteries Thinkbelt project; flexibility and authorship; aesthetics and the notion of the neutral field; the nature of research; and beyond!

Audio mastering and editing: FlomoNotio (Sri Lanka)

Intro and exit music: Sampled from "The Church of the Transfiguration" by Roger Plexico (Track 4 of Album: No Man's Land) shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Logo design by Ujal Gorchu.

Podcast: A Pinch of Doubt

Episode: 13

Title: Talking with Senne van 't Hof from JUSTDIGGIT

Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to architecture and urbanism.

Guest: Senne van 't Hof from JUSTDIGGIT.

We discuss: The past, present, and future of Justdiggit. Bunds and the re-greening process. The intricacies of bottom-up projects, and the complexities of local networks/connections. The varying legacies of property ownership in Kenya and Tanzania, and their implications for such re-greening projects. The flexibility, accountability, and pace that is possible with finer-grain organizational structures. And beyond!

Audio mastering and editing: FlomoNotio (Sri Lanka)

Intro and exit music: Sampled from "The Church of the Transfiguration" by Roger Plexico (Track 4 of Album: No Man's Land) shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Logo design by Ujal Gorchu.

Podcast: A Pinch of Doubt

Episode: 12

Title: Talking with Will Smith

Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to architecture and urbanism.

Guest: Will Smith -- graduate of the GSD, as well as the University of Oregon Department of Architecture.

We discuss: East Coast versus Pacific NW discourses in architecture. Discourses taking on form versus discourses taking on societal issues. The nature of dense rhetoric. The seemingly insular nature of architectural discourses across geographies. The modernist project, its schism, and its potential re-weaving today.

Audio mastering and editing: FlomoNotio (Sri Lanka)

Intro and exit music: Sampled from "The Church of the Transfiguration" by Roger Plexico (Track 4 of Album: No Man's Land) shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Logo design by Ujal Gorchu.

Podcast: A Pinch of Doubt

Episode: 11

Title: Talking with Darla Lindberg, Part 2

Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to architecture and urbanism.

Guest: Darla Lindberg -- professor in the Department of Architecture at The Pennsylvania State University; the first woman in the over 100-year history of the department to be first tenured and then promoted to Full Professor; author of "Outside the Skin: systems approaches to society’s larger structural issues;" founder of LNDBRG.

We discuss: Her book, Outside the Skin: Systems Approaches to Society's Larger Structural Issues. The Social Dilemma and its connection to the fashion industry; her approach to fashion design and the fashion economy; and her strangely persistent habit of architectural drawing since childhood.

Link to her childhood drawings: https://www.instagram.com/p/CHGMjbeBHLY/

Audio mastering and editing: FlomoNotio (Sri Lanka)

Intro and exit music: Sampled from "The Church of the Transfiguration" by Roger Plexico (Track 4 of Album: No Man's Land) shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Logo design by Ujal Gorchu.

Podcast: A Pinch of Doubt

Episode: 10

Title: Talking with Orhan Ayyüce

Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics (hopefully) critical to architecture and urbanism.

Guest: Orhan Ayyüce -- professor in the Department of Architecture at East Los Angeles College; also teaches urbanism and architecture at Escuela Libre de Arquitectura in Tijuana, Mexico; senior editor at Archinect; wanderer; observer; etc.; etc.

We discuss: His life and times; LA then and now; SCI-Arc; the California and LA architecture scene and the changes therein over time; writing style and craft; and beyond!

Audio mastering and editing: FlomoNotio (Sri Lanka)

Intro and exit music: Sampled from "The Church of the Transfiguration" by Roger Plexico (Track 4 of Album: No Man's Land) shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Logo design by Ujal Gorchu.

Podcast: A Pinch of Doubt

Episode: 09

Title: Talking with Darla Lindberg

Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to architecture and urbanism.

Guest: Darla Lindberg -- professor in the Department of Architecture at The Pennsylvania State University; the first woman in the over 100-year history of the department to be first tenured and then promoted to Full Professor; author of "Outside the Skin: systems approaches to society’s larger structural issues;" founder of LNDBRG.

Additional guests: Darla's talkative cats.

We discuss: Her life and times, career path, approach to systems thinking, what you can understand from fluffy horses and cows, self-reflective farmers, triangular buildings, and a range of other topics. More about her venture into the fashion industry in Part 2.

Audio mastering and editing: FlomoNotio (Sri Lanka)

Intro and exit music: Sampled from "The Church of the Transfiguration" by Roger Plexico (Track 4 of Album: No Man's Land) shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Logo design by Ujal Gorchu.

Podcast: A Pinch of Doubt

Episode: 08

Title: Talking with Carolyn Steel

Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to urbanism.

Guest: Carolyn Steel, author of "Sitopia" (2020) and "Hungry City" (2008). Author, academic, research, architect, and the list goes on!

We discuss: Her recently published book, "Sitopia," and the intricately interwoven relationship between food and human settlement patterns (e.g., the city), and a range of tangential, as well as hopefully non-tangential, topics!

Intro and exit music: Sampled from "The Church of the Transfiguration" by Roger Plexico (Track 4 of Album: No Man's Land) shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Logo design by Ujal Gorchu.

Podcast: A Pinch of Doubt

Episode: 07

Title: Talking with Wayne Barnett

Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to urbanism.

Guest: Wayne Barnett, Executive Director of the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission.

We discuss: The Democracy Voucher Program in Seattle, its scope, background, and impacts.

Logo design by Ujal Gorchu.