In this episode, i talk to Eduardo Rega Calvo who's research and design work focus on architecture's capacity to translate, operate in, and contribute to insurgent social and political movements. Eduardo is an architect, urban designer, and researcher based in New York. He is a graduate architecture faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, where he teaches history/theory seminars, design studios and runs a summer program in Colombia. His most recent project, Architectures of Refusal aims to compile an atlas of social mobilization against capitalism, colonialism, and human rights violations by uncovering their spatial manifestations, urbanism, and architectures. We talk about decolonizing, decolonization, and anticolonization strategies in architecture and teaching architecture. Eduardo talks to us about his projects of publishing and research, and how that relates to his teaching strategies and methodologies. We discuss grassroots organization based architecture, commonspoly as a method, and the white savior complex that reigns architecture practice.
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