CYCLE 1 / EPISODE 4

Finding our place: inside/outside/in the periphery of academia

Written by Aubrey Toldi, Isabella Traeger and Mohamed Elgohary

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Guests

Léopold Lambert

Léopold Lambert is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist. He is a trained architect, as well as the author of four books that examine the inherent violence of architecture on bodies, and its political instrumentalization at various scales and in various geographical contexts. He is the author of Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence (dpr-barcelona, 2012), Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall, and the Street (punctum, 2016) and La politique du Bulldozer: La ruine palestinienne comme projet israélien (B2, 2016). His new book is called States of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum (Premiers Matins de Novembre, 2021). 

Federica Sofia Zambeletti

Federica Sofia Zambeletti is the founder and managing director of KoozArch. She is an architect, researcher, and storyteller whose interests lie at the intersection between art, architecture, and regenerative practices. In 2022, Federica founded KoozArch with the ambition of creating a space where to research, explore and discuss architecture beyond the limits of its built form. Prior to dedicating her full attention to KoozArch, Federica collaborated with the architecture studio and non-profit agency for change UNA/UNLESS, working on numerous cultural projects and the research of “Antarctic Resolution”. Federica is an Architectural Association School of Architecture in London alumni. 

Shumi Bose

Shumi Bose is the Chief Editor at KoozArch. She is an educator, curator, and editor in the field of architecture and architectural history. Shumi is a Senior Lecturer in architectural history at Central Saint Martins and also teaches at the Royal College of Art, the Architectural Association, and the School of Architecture at Syracuse University in London. She has curated widely, including exhibitions at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 2020, she founded Holdspace, a digital platform for extracurricular discussions in architectural education, and currently serves as trustee for the Architecture Foundation.

Giancarlo Fiorella

Giancarlo Fiorella is the Director for Research and Training at Bellingcat. He has a PhD from the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto, where his research focused on non-state actors and antigovernmental protests in Venezuela. He is also an Assistant Professor with the Global Justice Investigations Lab at Utrecht University. 

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Additional materials

To hear more about KoozArch’s editorial approach, check out this episode of the “Architectures of Planetary Well-being” podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hrwV5lBthZ1GS8OpFeQPm?si=20763acb3d0b46ad 

To hear “Space between”, a podcast created and hosted by KoozArch:  https://open.spotify.com/show/30hQCaDENSQBsim1dxsAyz?si=bfc6a9e07bee4444 

To see the 49th issue of The Funambulist, where they question the material conditions of education as well as its contents: https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/schools-of-the-revolution 

To learn more about Bellingcat’s rigorous method to conduct open-source investigations: https://www.bellingcat.com/what-is-bellingcats-ja-unit-december-2022/