128. Comparing Connections in the Ethosphere with Ambrose Gillick (Part I)

Original Drawing by Tori Haynes

Kicking off our new season we engage in a conversation with Ambrose Gillick. Gillick shares his interest and findings in participatory and community-led architecture through a collaborative project with self-organizing women's- co-op in Dakar, Senegal, and theory of sacred space in medieval church architecture.

Timestamp Outline 

2:20    “Connected in the ethosphere” VP

3:25    “What were you doing in Bhuj?”

9:41 Moving away from billionaire housing

13:03    Relationship between Shakespeare, Ipsum, and the theatrical cities. “poverty” and “middle class”

17:00 “Simple people are NOT simple” values and how to value “things”. Comfort with extreme inequality and Bhuj

32:26 “In terms of working process and design ethics, what are the continuities and differences between the processes they’re using in other places and the kind of work your research focuses on?” VP

37:41 Social washing

46:45 Obverseness of brutalism

54:25 “….no one has really interrogated post-colonialism from the colonizing perspective”

1:00:08 Comparing and contrasting the tourist building by Hunnarshala in Hodka vs. the churches as Denise Scott Brown would