001: Amy Butt
07/04/23 • 80 min
The first episode of Hold the Space is an interview with Architect, doctor of science fiction, and lecturer in architecture at the University of Reading, Dr. Amy Butt.
In this conversation we talk about:
- How to engage non-architects in architecture
- Science fiction as a way to practise the future together
- Amy’s indirect route towards her current teaching and practice
- The design crit process, and how to improve it
- A few of the ethical issues with practising and teaching architecture
- A workshop run in the Horniman Museum
- Time management
- And more!
Jump to a section
- (00:00) - 001: Amy Butt
- (00:11) - Introduction
- (03:22) - What do you do?
- (05:52) - Audience
- (08:53) - Personal journey
- (14:54) - Criticising critiques: how to improve the design critique process for students
- (22:47) - Sustainable modes of practice
- (26:55) - Teaching and workshops: The Horniman Museum
- (40:49) - Time and project management
- (50:22) - The Absent Paradigm and science fiction reading communities
- (56:53) - Beyond Gender and collaborative writing
- (01:08:21) - Success criteria
- (01:12:20) - Building communities
- (01:19:51) - Outro
- (01:20:22) - Credits
Links and references
Links
Groups
Articles
- The Present as Past: Science Fiction and the Museum (2021) by Amy Butt (article and photos from the Horniman Museum workshop we discuss in this episode)
- Performance, Utopia, and the "Utopian Performative" (2001) by Jill Dolan
Books
From the Horniman Museum workshop
- The Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells
- We (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- The Wanderground (1979) by Sally Miller Gearhart
From the Beyond Gender reading group:
- Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) and The Salt Roads (2003) by Nalo Hopkinson
- Your Faces, O My Sisters! (1990) by James Tiptree Junior - featured in the collection Her Smoke Rose Up Together
- The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Contact
This show is new and evolving - if you have any suggestions or comments, things you’d like to hear (or not!) please email me at [email protected]
Credits
This podcast is made possible by the Situated Art and Design Research Group at Caradt, the Centre for Applied Research in Art, Design, and Technology. Each episode is recorded, edited, and mixed by me, Ollie Palmer. For more information - including full transcripts for each episode, links to relevant work or resources, please visit the podcast website at www.holdthespace.art, or click the link in the podcast notes.
Thanks for listening, and see you next time.
The first episode of Hold the Space is an interview with Architect, doctor of science fiction, and lecturer in architecture at the University of Reading, Dr. Amy Butt.
In this conversation we talk about:
- How to engage non-architects in architecture
- Science fiction as a way to practise the future together
- Amy’s indirect route towards her current teaching and practice
- The design crit process, and how to improve it
- A few of the ethical issues with practising and teaching architecture
- A workshop run in the Horniman Museum
- Time management
- And more!
Jump to a section
- (00:00) - 001: Amy Butt
- (00:11) - Introduction
- (03:22) - What do you do?
- (05:52) - Audience
- (08:53) - Personal journey
- (14:54) - Criticising critiques: how to improve the design critique process for students
- (22:47) - Sustainable modes of practice
- (26:55) - Teaching and workshops: The Horniman Museum
- (40:49) - Time and project management
- (50:22) - The Absent Paradigm and science fiction reading communities
- (56:53) - Beyond Gender and collaborative writing
- (01:08:21) - Success criteria
- (01:12:20) - Building communities
- (01:19:51) - Outro
- (01:20:22) - Credits
Links and references
Links
Groups
Articles
- The Present as Past: Science Fiction and the Museum (2021) by Amy Butt (article and photos from the Horniman Museum workshop we discuss in this episode)
- Performance, Utopia, and the "Utopian Performative" (2001) by Jill Dolan
Books
From the Horniman Museum workshop
- The Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells
- We (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- The Wanderground (1979) by Sally Miller Gearhart
From the Beyond Gender reading group:
- Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) and The Salt Roads (2003) by Nalo Hopkinson
- Your Faces, O My Sisters! (1990) by James Tiptree Junior - featured in the collection Her Smoke Rose Up Together
- The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Contact
This show is new and evolving - if you have any suggestions or comments, things you’d like to hear (or not!) please email me at [email protected]
Credits
This podcast is made possible by the Situated Art and Design Research Group at Caradt, the Centre for Applied Research in Art, Design, and Technology. Each episode is recorded, edited, and mixed by me, Ollie Palmer. For more information - including full transcripts for each episode, links to relevant work or resources, please visit the podcast website at www.holdthespace.art, or click the link in the podcast notes.
Thanks for listening, and see you next time.
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000: Introduction
This is the trailer for Hold the Space, a new podcast hosted by Ollie Palmer. It's a show about the intersection between creative practice and teaching, and features conversations with creative practitioners who also teach. You can subscribe now at www.holdthespace.art
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002: Nelly Ben Hayoun
A podcast about creative practice and teaching. This week I'm joined by Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun to discuss her work and teaching, the University of the Underground, working with large teams on multi-year projects, Hannah Arendt, Michael Jackson, and couscous. It's a great conversation; join us!
Chapters
- (00:00) - 002: Nelly Ben Hayoun
- (00:33) - Intro
- (01:45) - Nelly Ben Hayoun Intro
- (07:41) - Background: Michael Jackson, origins of practice
- (15:37) - Quick tour of the studio
- (16:32) - Success criteria
- (24:20) - University of the Underground
- (29:36) - Student projects
- (35:12) - Teaching methodology
- (40:51) - Developing projects
- (49:43) - I am Not a Monster and Red Moon films
- (52:40) - Credits
- (54:49) - Outro
Show notes
Nelly, projects, and the University of the Underground
- Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios website: https://nellyben.com
- University of the Underground website: https://universityoftheunderground.org/
- Nelly’s RCA Design Interatcions graduation project The Soyuz Chair: https://nellyben.com/projects/experiences/the-soyuz-chair-2/
- International Space Orchestra: https://internationalspaceorchestra.com
- Disaster Playground film: https://disasterplayground.com
Projects mentioned in conversation
- 8:55 Nelly mentions Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism
- 18:21 International Space Orchestra project with Kid Kudi: https://internationalspaceorchestra.com/international_space_orchestra_hit_the_road/
- 20:32 The End of Protest - book by MIcah White, co-founder of Occupy Wall Street https://endofprotest.com
University of the Underground students
- 30:20 Nelly discusses Alexander Cromer’s Black Arctic project. Here’s an article on the project in Metropolis M magazine: https://www.metropolism.com/en/features/49457_the_black_arctic_became_a_way_of_reclaiming_death_and_a_way_of_finding_some_kind_of_ancestral_home_in_conversation_with_alexander_cromer
- 31:55 Nelly discusses pornographer Stoya’s project GRID: https://universityoftheunderground.org/gird-loins-faith-fellows
- 32:59 Nelly discusses Ana Subeliani’s project in Georgia: https://universityoftheunderground.org/student/ana-subeliani
This podcast is made possible by the Situated Art and Design Research Group at Caradt, the Centre for Applied Research in Art, Design, and Technology. Find out more at www.caradt.nl
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