TALK, TALK, TALK: Fluxes - Changes and Transformations
Fluxes considers flows of matter, energy and meaning across geographies, infrastructures and communities. This session investigates how global and local circulations condition everyday life — from displacement to supply chains — and how architecture might engage with these fluxes as forms of solidarity and resistance.
Andrés Jaque is the Dean of Columbia GSAPP and founder of the Office for Political Innovation, a transdisciplinary agency working at the intersection of design, research and environmental activism. Jaque’s work explores architecture as a cosmopolitical practice and its social and ecological networks.
Tiago Patatas is a practitioner whose work supports environmental struggles and examines their articulation with spatial politics. His research addresses modalities of green extractivism and, in particular, the irruption of lithium mining frontiers, as well as nuclear imperialism and its destructive global expanses.
Kathryn Yusoff is Professor at Queen Mary University of London, where she interrogates the geologies of race, extraction and colonial power. Her research surfaces how colonial geology constructs racialized geospatial forms and how Black, Indigenous and Caribbean thought might reimagine planetary subjectivity.
Moderator: Federica Zambeletti, Founder and Director of KoozArch