Shani Strand & Zenobia

Sucking Salt on Aesthetics and the Archive

By Melody Stein

A Garden on Its Way

Sumayya Vally & Yasmeen Lari

Architectures of Co-Creation

By Connor Rankin

Changing Tack, A Third Place

KoozArch & re:arc institute

Welcome to “Between Us”, the second season of the Architectures of Planetary Well-Being Podcast. For our first episode, we speak to the curators for this season, Shumi Bose and Federica Zambeletti of KoozArch, a research studio and digital magazine exploring architecture and design. Shumi and Federica guided the conversations of Season Two through the lens of betweenness—bridging gaps between practitioners and disciplines; moving collaboratively between spaces, concepts, and worlds. In this introductory episode, they reflect on the unexpected connections that emerged during the conversations for “Between Us”, and the generosity and sense of collaboration required to create architectures of planetary well-being.

Between Us

Emanuel Admassu & Setareh Noorani

Researcher and architect Setareh Noorani and artist and architect Emanuel Admassu discuss the transformative power of friendship, collaboration, and, as Setareh says, being “in touch with each other.” Together, they explore how that same sense of horizontality might shape the concept of reparations—all the while considering the importance of accountability, of reframing the hegemonic hierarchies that still govern so much of our world, and of caring for ourselves and each other while working toward collective liberation.

Representing Reparations

Natasha Ginwala & Sumayya Vally

How does water carry ancestral memory? And how can ancestral memory remind us of the wisdom we’ve always carried? Curator and writer Natasha Ginwala and architect Sumayya Vally examine questions like these in a profoundly tender conversation that touches on both practitioners’ recent work, as well as landscape, memory, the importance of what Natasha describes as a “unity of knowledge,” and how the desegregation of knowledge systems will ultimately unify us, too.

Identity & Ancestral Wisdom

Nzinga Biegueng Mboup & Seetal Solanki

“What happens on Earth stays on Earth”: This Kendrick Lamar lyric unexpectedly grounds a conversation on sustainability and embodiment between architect Nzinga Biegueng Mboup and designer Seetal Solanki. The two find common ground in the multiplicity of their respective backgrounds and their shared love for materials; together they discuss the surprising fluidity of architectural materials, how a material’s locality can teach us about sustainability, and how we might reacquaint ourselves with the indigenous knowledge systems of the landscapes in which we build and live.

Designing (for) Biodiversity

Ekow Eshun & Danielle Dean

“There’s two professions in the world that have at their heart some form of liberty… a philosopher and an artist,” says writer and curator Ekow Eshun. In a conversation with the interdisciplinary artist Danielle Dean, the two discuss the importance of storytelling and art in creating a more just and caring world. They reimagine the role of cultural institutions, particularly museums, and think beyond the confines of these spaces’ walls to imagine how we can utilize art to reevaluate history, establish new perspectives, and perhaps shape the future. 

Curating in Public

Lawrence Lek & Leah Wulfman

Architect, media artist, and educator Leah Wulfman and artist, filmmaker, and musician Lawrence Lek each found their way to architecture through an interest in world-building. Today, they both continue to create digital universes. In this episode, they discuss their educational histories, the material connection between the digital and physical worlds—the often detrimental environmental impact of technology on our planet; the way humanity, even its emotions, shapes virtual reality—and how exploring both realms with curiosity and care can lead to a more sustainable future.

Fictionalising Ecology

Samia Henni & Noura Al-Sayeh

In this episode, the Palestinian architect Noura Al Sayeh and the writer, historian, and architect Samia Henni discuss their recent accomplishments and, more broadly, the widespread impact of colonialism and imperialism—on both western perceptions of the world and its geographies, and on the artistic institutions that purport to fight hegemonic power structures. In an emotional, hopeful conversation, they reflect on the meaning of and need for decolonization—in the architectural field and everywhere else—how the siege on Gaza has led to a shift in our collective moral compass, and their genuine optimism for the future.

Decolonising Landscapes

Federica Fragapane & Sabba Khan

While graphic novelist and architectural designer Sabba Khan’s work poignantly explores her own history growing up in East London, and Federica Fragapane uses painterly illustration to visualize data, in this conversation, they find the overlaps between their respective practices, and discuss the lived experiences and choices shaping even the most objective information. They remind us to use our own voices to help build the future, and frame their work as invitations—for readers to understand, relate to, and find themselves within it—and consider how all data is embodied by the people who comprise it.

Informalising Information

By revisions Editorial Team

Architectures of Planetary Well-Being

revisions is a platform for conversation around architectures of planetary well-being.

Directed by Jeff Mertz & Alice Grandoit-Šutka

'We Are All Woven' highlights the work of Organizmo, a research-led organisation in Tenjo, Cundinamarca, which for over two decades has studied and supported the philosophical and material construction traditions of the region’s Indigenous peoples. Created by revisions media, this film witnesses timeless traditions of co-creating habitat that reveal that to “build” is an inherently collective process. 

We Are All Woven

Amal Alhaag
Beatriz Lobo Britto
Rastros de Diogenes
Gabriela de Matos
Elodie Dérond
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Tania Doumbe Fines
Isabel Flower
Alexis Aceves Garcia
Ruth Gebreyesus
Tao Leigh Goffe
fields harrington
JAZSALYN
Kasia Hertz
Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk
Elke Krasny
Fernanda Liberti
Canisia Lubrin
Marie-Louise Richards
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Glicéria Tupinambá
Selene Wendt

bridges the thoughts and intentions of knowledge producers across culture, art, architecture, design, and environmental studies and sciences.

An experimental initiative of the Public Discourse program at re:arc institute, 

supports non-traditional perspectives and imaginaries with the potential to shift culture. With original editorial across a range of rhetorical and visual formats, we explore the connectedness of our social and ecological systems and cultivate approaches to planetary consciousness that actively and continuously prioritise custodianship and care.

Vol. 2 once again invited individuals from range of practices, interests, and backgrounds to contemplate entries into a concept of planetarity; the meaning, measures, and markers of well-being; the expansiveness of architecture(s) as a theoretical scaffolding; and the urgency of plurality when listening and learning through emergent discourse. Our contributors spoke on subjects including collective responsibility; anthropocentric time scales; the price of progress; the convergences of race, technology, ecology, and the origins of the climate crisis; and the potential of architecture as metaphor.

Like Vol. 1, this edition is designed by Åbäke and printed with Algae Press™, an algae-centred printing process located in and around the Venice Lagoon.

December 2025
English
21 x 30 cm
124 pages
Softcover
Design: Åbäke
Printer: Algae Press™

The second printed volume of "revisions" bridges the thoughts and intentions of knowledge producers across culture, art, architecture, design, and environmental studies and sciences. An experimental initiative of the Public Discourse program at re:arc institute, "revisions" supports non-traditional perspectives and imaginaries with the potential to shift culture. With original editorial across a range of rhetorical and visual formats, we explore the connectedness of our social and ecological systems and cultivate approaches to planetary consciousness that actively and continuously prioritise custodianship and care. 

revisions Vol. 2

Yossy Akinsanya
Ashia Ajani
Stephanie Cherry Ayala
Imani Jacqueline Brown
Angela YT Chan
Grace L. Dillon
Ayling Zulema Dominguez
Rayan Elnayal
Alexis Aceves Garcia
JAZSALYN
Nadia Huggins
Yasmeen Lari
Judnick Mayard
Katherine McKittrick
Mpho Matsipa
Melody Stein
Territorial Empathy
Monica Uszerowicz
Sumayya Vally
Alice Yuan Zhang

, an experimental media initiative of the Public Discourse program at re:arc institute, entwines knowledge systems, perspectives, and values that make up the speculative framework for architectures of planetary well-being. With the intent to explore the relational connections between our social and ecological systems, as well as to commune across and beyond disciplinary boundaries, we invite individuals from a diverse array of practices and geographies to contemplate entries into a concept of planetary; the meaning, measures, and markers of well-being; the expansiveness of architecture(s) as a theoretical scaffolding; and the urgency of plurality when listening and learning through emergent discourse.

Themes addressed include ecological memory, cyclical time, art and science as overlapping pedagogies, co-creative rupture, and imagination and wonder as models of address among others. This first volume joins visual and language-based artists, scholars, designers, journalists, poets, architects, and urbanists from five continents including esteemed minds such as Katherine McKittrick, Sumayya Vally, Yasmeen Lari, Grace L. Dillon, Nadia Huggins, Mpho Matsipa, Alice Yuan Zhang and others. This print edition is designed by Åbäke and printed with Algae Press™, an algae-centred printing process located in and around the Venice Lagoon.

June 2024
English
21 x 30 cm
150 pages
Softcover
Design: Åbäke
Printer: Algae Press™

The first printed volume of "revisions", an experimental media initiative of the Public Discourse program at re:arc institute, entwines knowledge systems, perspectives, and values that make up the speculative framework for architectures of planetary well-being. With the intent to explore the relational connections between our social and ecological systems, as well as to commune across and beyond disciplinary boundaries, we invite individuals from a diverse array of practices and geographies to contemplate entries into a concept of planetary; the meaning, measures, and markers of well-being; the expansiveness of architecture(s) as a theoretical scaffolding; and the urgency of plurality when listening and learning through emergent discourse.