This is an audio version of a pamphlet produced as part of the research project Architecture after Architecture: Spatial Practice in the Face of the Climate Emergency.

The full set of pamphlets and audio versions can be found on our website mould.earth

Each publication introduces a topic, concept or theme crucial to the project through a range of perspectives and asks ‘What does it mean in the context of climate, architecture, and spatial practice?’

Based on ongoing discussions amongst the research team and others, the pamphlets aim to be reflective as well as projective. They are preliminary in nature, written to be accessible, and usually written by one author working in collaboration with other members of our collective, MOULD.

Architecture after Architecture: Spatial Practice in the Face of the Climate Emergency is funded by the AHRC (UK) and DFG (Germany)

Music by Duval Timothy

Climate

In this recorded conversation Christina Serifi is talking with Emilio Luque, a doctor of sociology and professor at UNED Madrid in the subjects of human ecology, environment and society. The online discussion contextualised architecting, spatial practice, and the mechanisms forming our (un-)built environments from the perspective of an ‘outsider inside’, as Emilio has been engaging with spatial practice in the face of the climate emergency for nearly two decades now.

You can find more about Emilio Luque www.emilioluque.com (in Spanish).

Podcast final production made by Julius Grambow.  
Running time: 24 minutes

Climate Conversation with Emilio Luque

Sitting together around the table at GTAS in Braunschweig, Tatjana and Christina engage in a fast-paced conversation with François Bao. What are the similarities of mould to capitalism? Why would architecture after architecture look at mould in the first place? And what would it mean for spatial practitioners to reconsider dogmas of growth and expansion?

François Bao is a mycologist based in Braunschweig. He was born in Luxembourg, in “midst of a landscape completely destroyed for and by industrialisation in the 20th century”, as he describes it. This experience led him to study ecology and philosophy to later move on to mycology. He founded the urban gardening concept “Botnik”, where gardening becomes a practice and exchange of mutual learnings.

You can find more about Botnik at www.botnik.jimdofree.com (in German). 
 
Podcast final production made by Julius Grambow.
Running time: 21 minutes

Climate Conversation with François Bao

On a hot sunny day, Christina Serifi and Julius Grambow are walking around ZK/U site in Moabit Berlin, following Jan Körbes into a conversation about materials, repurposing and reusing methodologies, his practice with Refunc and his life in Silo House. Jan Körbes together with Denis Oudendijk have founded their practice Refunc challenging standard design approaches, “looking for at the world without a manual”.

You can find more about Jan Körbes and Refunc at www.refunc.nl

Podcast final production made by Julius Grambow.  
Running time: 20 minutes

Climate Conversation with Jan Körbes

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In this conversation, Jeremy and Anthony give more insight into the collective and their ongoing research project - Architecture is Climate. Hosted by two student research assistants at MOULD, Lauren and Rachel ask questions about their ways of practicing as a collective, the role of the project in the architecture discourse and its potential influence in the future. 

This conversation was conducted as part of their work for the M Arch course at Central Saint Martins

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