Day 5

Metabolic Rift, Episode 2
Joshua Harskamp, Sahir Patel and Maximillian Worrell
Commune. Taking the UK as a case-study, what can we learn about the precariousness of young workers? What are the origins of this condition, and what could be the solutions to it?

Multiplicity
Anna and Eugeni Bach
Anna and Eugeni Bach of A&EB share their thoughts on pressing matters.
Anna and Eugeni Bach are a Finnish-Spanish team, based in Barcelona, that work within a broad concept of architecture. Their interests spread across four activities: professional work, through public and private projects; teaching, as associate professors at ETSAB UPC, ETSALS URL and EINA UAB, and through lectures and workshops in different European universities; research, as PhD candidates at ETSAB university and through projects and installations that deal with the perception of space; and cultural production, in their active participation on the boards of different associations that promote the values of architecture for society, as well as in the curation of exhibitions and lecture series.

Diego Grass Interviews Yusuke Obuchi
Diego Grass and Yusuke Obuchi
Yusuke Obuchi is an Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Tokyo, where he has directed the Obuchi Laboratory at the Department of Architecture since 2010. He is also a founding co-director of the Advanced Design Studies Program, which consists of a Digital Fabrication Lab, Sustainable Prototyping Lab, Media Initiative Lab, Design Think Tank, Design Practice Lab, Social Design Lab and Computational Unit. Obuchi was co-Director of the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association in London from 2005 to 2010, and a Course Master and Unit Master of the Architectural Association from 2003 to 2005. He studied architecture at Princeton University, the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the University of Toronto, and received his PhD from the University of Tokyo. He has previously taught at Princeton University, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the University of Kentucky and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

QUARANTINE BOOK REVIEW 4
Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg
The Palace of Architecture: A Romance of Art and History by George Wightwick. A 19th-century account of architectural style, told through the grounds of a fictional pleasure garden.
Space Popular is a multidisciplinary design and research practice, led by Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg.

SUMMER RE-SCREEN: Ethics and Place
Tim Unwin

SUMMER RE-SCREEN: Plan the Planet: How do we Confront a World on Fire?
Symposium