Day 6

CHA CHA CHATS! Episode 2
Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar and Álvaro MartÍn Fidalgo in conversation with Brendan Cormier
Cha Cha Chats! is a series of conversations curated by Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar and Álvaro Martín Fidalgo. The talks will bring together artists and architects who blur disciplinary boundaries within their practices. Topics will include, but not be limited to, fictional realities, archaeologies of future, kitsch and spectacle, loss of resolution and texture in digital communication. Following the Chachachá rhythm, the tone of the sessions will be placid, roguish and suggestive.
Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar and Álvaro MartÍn Fidalgo are architects, educators and founding partners of the Madrid-based office SOF-T, which develops architectural spaces in environments that connect local identity with contemporary culture. In addition to their work as visiting lecturers internationally, they have taught in the AA Intermediate and Visiting School programmes, and teach at the Madrid Polytechnic ETSAM and IE School of Architecture and Design. They are recognised as one of the most promising young architectural practices in Europe, and their work is international in scope, being recognised and published on multiple occasions.

The Agency of the Architectural Publication, curated by Neeraj Bahtia
Neeraj Bhatia, Mason White, Mimi Zeiger, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Margarida Waco, Aoi Phillips and Marwa El Mubark
This roundtable discussion brings together editors of Bracket, the Funambulist and dpr-barcelona to reflect on the agency of architectural publications to incite action. In a moment of increasing distance between society and the structural systems that organise the world, this conversation will speculate on how publications can act as a vehicle for change.
Neeraj Bhatia is a licensed architect and urban designer whose work resides at the intersection of politics, infrastructure and urbanism. He is an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts, where he also directs the Urban Works Agency. He has held teaching positions at UC Berkeley, UT Arlington, Cornell University, Rice University and the University of Toronto, and is the founder of The Open Workshop. He has been awarded numerous prizes and distinctions, and is co-editor of Bracket [Takes Action] and Bracket [Goes Soft].

Imperfection
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.

QUARANTINE BOOK REVIEW 5
Costandis Kizis
Death at Intervals; a late look at Saramango during Covid-19. Ten years after his death, Saramango's work could not be more relevant today, since a life-threatening pandemic has knocked indiscriminately our door. What if there was no death? What if death was left in the hands of the mafia? What if death came with a hand-written note by death herself? Saramango plays with our fears, with the unpredictability of death, with the state's reaction to sudden changes in death rates and, ultimately, with the identity of death, in a fascinating novel that currently rings too many bells.

SUMMER RE-SCREEN: Contested Landscapes: Ethics and Intervention in Australia
Hugo Hinsley

SUMMER RE-SCREEN: Anticolonial Commitments
Samia Henni