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A Pinch of DoubtE16 - Talking with Aurgho JyotiPodcast: 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...2021-05-181h 31A Pinch of DoubtE15 - Talking with Kevin ReedPodcast: 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...2020-12-2852 minA Pinch of DoubtE14 - Talking with Marcela AragüezPodcast: 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...2020-12-201h 15A Pinch of DoubtE13 - Talking with Senne van 't Hof from JUSTDIGGITPodcast: 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...2020-11-2859 minA Pinch of DoubtE12 - Talking with Will SmithPodcast: 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)
...2020-11-181h 16A Pinch of DoubtE11 - Talking With Darla Lindberg, Part 2Podcast: 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 Di...2020-10-261h 32A Pinch of DoubtE10 - Talking with Orhan AyyücePodcast: 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 ma...2020-10-1448 minA Pinch of DoubtE09 - Talking With Darla Lindberg, Part 1Podcast: 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, wh...2020-10-061h 18A Pinch of DoubtE08 - Talking With Carolyn SteelPodcast: 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...2020-04-1943 minA Pinch of DoubtE07 - Talking With Wayne BarnettPodcast: 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.2020-03-1530 minA Pinch of DoubtE06 - Talking With Brook MullerPodcast: A Pinch of Doubt
Episode: 06
Title: Talking with Brook Muller
Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to urbanism.
Guest: Brook Muller, Dean of the College of Arts + Architecture at UNC Charlotte, previously a professor at the University of Oregon's Department of Architecture, and director of the University of Oregon Portland Architecture Program.
We discuss: His transition into deanship at UNC Charlotte; interdisciplinary conceptions of urban equity; the trajectory of the "S" word; ecology, water, cities, and architecture; green infrastructure across scales; the craft of research; reading while walking; and...2019-11-071h 13A Pinch of DoubtE05 - Talking With Edgar GonzálezPodcast: A Pinch of Doubt
Episode: 05
Title: Talking with Edgar González
Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to urbanism.
Guest: Edgar González, Director of Bachelor of Design at IE School of Architecture and Design.
Discussing: Programming and "internet" culture in the 80s and 90s; design thinking, its initial potentials, and its current state; the simplification of an idea, its marketability/exportability, and new urbanism; methodology, investigative journalism, and critical thinking; the ethical hacker, open-source, and Linux; Linus Torvalds, the governance structure behind Linux, and the nature of open-source me...2019-08-151h 04A Pinch of DoubtE04 - Talking With Clara ZarzaPodcast: A Pinch of Doubt
Episode: 04
Title: Talking with Clara Zarza
Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to urbanism.
Guest: Clara Zarza, faculty member at IE School of Architecture and Design, whose scholarship is focused on contemporary art history and visual theory.
Discussing: The work and life of Bobby Baker; the lopsided discursive focus on the artist as societal anomaly; the digestibility and legibility of art; the intricacies of the informant-researcher relationship; supporting, rather than dictating, narrative formation; and other areas.
Logo design by Ujal Gorchu.2019-08-072h 00A Pinch of DoubtE03 - Talking With Chuck MindenhallPodcast: A Pinch of Doubt
Episode: 03
Title: Talking with Chuck Mindenhall
Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to urbanism.
Guest: Chuck Mindenhall, columnist at The Athletic, and co-host of The Man and the MITH.
Discussing: The legacy of storytelling and the fight game; comfort zones and the base, raw edge; subconscious processing and the craft of writing; the contemporary pace of content creation; the editor-writer relationship and the influence of content quantity and speed; the world of journalism/publication, the dying breed, and the middle ground; levity, benevolence, and watching...2019-08-021h 17A Pinch of DoubtE02 - Talking With Balder Hageraats, Part 02Podcast: A Pinch of Doubt
Episode: 02
Title: Talking with Balder Hageraats, Part 02
Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to urbanism.
Guest: Balder Hageraats, Founding Partner of ReSeT Centre for Research on Security and Transnational Governance, who also teaches at IE School of International Relations
Discussing: Posing radical questions over a glass of wine in the 17th and 18th century; kernels of discursive dominance; professionals and philosophes; how ideas achieve societal form; Lockean thought and the countryside; the city and the threat it posed to traditional authorities; the mobilization of the...2019-06-091h 09A Pinch of DoubtE01 - Talking With Balder Hageraats, Part 01Podcast: A Pinch of Doubt
Episode: 01
Title: Talking with Balder Hageraats, Part 01
Host: Cem Kayatekin, Assistant Professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, inquiring into topics critical to urbanism.
Guest: Balder Hageraats, Founding Partner of ReSeT Centre for Research on Security and Transnational Governance, who also teaches at IE School of International Relations
Discussing: Government forms and structures. Innovation / experimentation therein. Democracy and the unknown. History of the radical utopian vision. Gollum and his ring. The potentials of the local and the urban.
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