Lighter — How to make otherwise
How can weight be reimagined as responsibility, support and resilience, rather than burden? Opening a space for discussing forms of architecture and urban life that embrace fragility, erosion but also play and tenderness, it proposes lighter ways to inhabit the city and to rethink its gravitational pulls.
Participants: Supawut Boonmahathanakorn, Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén Garcia Grinda (amid.cero9), Eyal Weizman
Moderator: Lilet Breddels
Participants
Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efren Garcia Grinda
Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efren García Grinda are co-founders of the Madrid-based practice amid.cero9, and widely known as Cristina y Efrén. Known for their experimental and interdisciplinary approach, integrating architecture with cultural practices, ecology, literature, and pop culture in projects with a strong conceptual focus. Díaz Moreno and García Grinda have taught at institutions such as the Architectural Association in London Harvard GSD or Princeton SoA, the Angewandte, Vienna, Staedelschule Frankfurt, Akademie der Bildenden Kunste,IKA, Vienna, among many other institutions. They work approaches architecture as a cultural and intellectual practice, relating it to the creation of significant environments that act as small cosmologies and spaces for exchange and mediation.
Supawut Boonmahathanakorn
Supawut Boonmahathanakorn is a Thai architect and urban practitioner. He leads the Chiang Mai-based practice JaiBaan Studio, which is determined to strike the right balance between human needs and nature. His work in both urban and suburb focusing on resilience and the cultural dimensions of urbanization in Southeast Asia. Supawut often explores how traditional knowledge systems can inform contemporary design challenges, particularly in the context of climate change, biodiversity lost. He has contributed to regional and local projects that bridge architecture, landscape, urban planning and social justice. His work reflects a commitment to creating more sustainable, inclusive and nature-based solution in urban environments.
Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman MBE FBA is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2010 he founded the research agency Forensic Architecture and directs it ever since. Weizman’s work explores how architecture intersects with human rights, conflict, and justice. He has led investigations for organizations like Amnesty International and the United Nations. His work spans architecture, investigative journalism and technology. He is also the author of several influential books, including Hollow Land (2007) and Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability (2017).
Lilet Breddels
Lilet Breddels is an art historian and works as a guest teacher, curator and lecturer. Breddels is the Director of the Archis Foundation, a cultural think tank promoting debate on spatial and urban issues and publisher of Volume Magazine. Her work focuses on art and architecture’s role as a catalyst for societal change.
Lilet runs the long-term Archis project ‘Architecture of Peace’ on the role of architecture in post-conflict areas and is project manager at Ro3kvit, Urban Coalition for Ukraine.