In the Pit !

Listen to host Sosa Erhabor and Jahaan Scipio in conversation with Olalekan Jeyifous and Germane Barnes.

Listen to host Sosa Erhabor and Sydney Maubert in conversation with Jerome Haferd, Curry Hackett and Khalid Hassan.

Listen to host Sosa Erhabor and Sydney Maubert in conversation with Justin G.Moore, Walter Hoods and Josh Greene.

Episode 1 | PAST : Ife Vanable and Mabel Wilson + Charis Armstrong to talk about black architectural historicities, erasure, exposure, and fetishization. 

We are excited to kick off the platform's first hosted podcast series, Lost Rituals: Storytelling. Over the course of 4 discussions this semester, our hosts Sosa Erhabor and Sydney Maubert will be discussing the divide between written and spoken scholarship, the importance of space in the context of oral traditions, mentorship, legitimacy, and much more.

Billie Tsien and Tod Williams of TWBTA in conversation with Abby Reed and Grace Zajdel regarding Slowness in Architecture, Art, and Life. TWBTA (www.twbta.com) is a NYC-based architecture firm that sees architecture as an act of profound optimism. Through its work, the office considers what it means to leave a thoughtful legacy on material culture, community, and space.

The founding members of the second annual Yale Mental Health Symposium (YMHS)speak with Chloe Hou (@chloe_m_ss) and Grace Zajdel (@sculp.i.tecture) regarding the intersection of mental health and architecture. An ongoing student-led project, the YMHS aims to involve perspectives from a variety of disciplines and encourage peers to activate and take initiative to solve problems in the world around them.

Dami Olufowoshe, Gabriel Fries-Briggs, Lena Pozdnyakova, and Eldar Tagi, in conversation with Brian Orser (M.Arch I, 2022) about Materials and Applications, .a Los Angeles-based non-profit exhibition space for art and architecture that also runs the city's only terrestrial architecture radio station (https://www.materialsandapplications.org/ma-radio-kgap-967). 

Jennifer Newsom + Ozayr Saloojee in conversation with Josh Greene (M.Arch I, 2023), Meghna Mudaliar (M.Arch I, 2022), Dominiq Oti (M.Arch I, 2022), Hannah Mayer Baydoun (M.Arch I, 2022), Audrey Fischer (M.Arch I, 2022) to talk about unsettling architecture, strengthening geographies of care, and opening up the dialogue around how we think about territory and its many narratives and histories. 

Episode 7 of the Paprika? In the Pit podcast brings Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (OceanCollectiv & Urban Ocean Lab) and Bryan Lee (Colloqate Design) in conversation with Jessica Kim (M.Arch I, 2022) to talk expansively across climate change, design justice, and working through spatial practices of radical, interdisciplinary collaboration.