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 lives, from displacement to supply chains, and how architecture might engage with these fluxes as forms of solidarity and resistance.
Participants: Andrés Jaque, Tiago Patatas, Kathryn Yusoff
Moderator: Federica Zambeletti
Participants
Andrés Jaque
Andrés Jaque is an architect, writer and curator whose work explores architecture as a cosmopolitical practice. He is the Dean of Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York. In 2003, he founded the Office for Political Innovation, a trandisciplinary agency working in the intersection of design, research and environmental activism. His projects often explore social and ecological networks. In 2016, he was awarded with the 10th Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts. In 2024 he won the UNESCO Global Award for Sustainable Architecture and in 2014, the Silver Lion to the Best Project at the 14th Venice Biennale. Jaque is the author of award-winning architectural projects, including the Reggio School (El Encinar de los Reyes, 2020) and the Babin Yar Museum of Memory and Oblivion in Kyiv.
Tiago Patatas
Tiago Patatas is a spatial practitioner and researcher whose work supports environmental struggles and examines their articulation with spatial politics. His recent inquiries address modalities of green extractivism, in particular the irruption of lithium mining frontiers, as well as nuclear imperialism and its destructive global expanses. Individual and collaborative projects were presented at the Nieuwe Instituut, Galeria Municipal do Porto, and Helsinki Biennial, among other forums. Tiago holds a MA in Research Architecture with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London and is currently a doctoral student in Architecture at the Royal College of Art. He is based between London and Porto.
Kathryn Yusoff
Kathryn Yusoff is Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London, where she interrogates the geologies of race, extraction and colonial power through critical environmental humanities. Trained in geography, social theory and feminist philosophy, her research (and her recent book Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race, 2024) surfaces how colonial geology constructs racialized geospatial forms and how Black, Indigenous and Caribbean thought might reimagine planetary subjectivity. She also authored A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2019), and leads work on “planetary portals” to dismantle extractive imaginaries and rethink coexistence across Earth systems.