TALK, TALK, TALK: Spectres - Empire and Extractivism
The opening debate of TALK, TALK, TALK addresses some of the most complex dimensions of weight — looking at the ghosts, ruins and inherited pressures of extraction, colonialism and terraforming gestures — to interrogate how histories of violence haunt present ecologies and infrastructures, and how these unresolved spectres press upon cities, territories and bodies.
Kenny Cupers is an architectural historian and the director of the Urban Studies programme at the University of Basel. His research focuses on the relationship between built environments and changing societies, particularly on how design and infrastructures mediate social life and political power.
Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari are architects, academics and the founders of Architects for Gaza, a multidisciplinary collective responding to the ongoing spaciocide in Gaza. Their work challenges dominant architectural practice by considering design as a tool to empower communities.
Michael Marder is a philosopher and Professor at the University of the Basque Country and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Reconstitution in Berlin. His writings span the fields of ecological theory, phenomenology, and political thought.
Moderator: Christele Harrouk, Editor-in-Chief of ArchDaily