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The A is for Architecture Podcast’s newest episode is a conversation with North American scholars, social scientist Patrick Lynn Rivers and design historian Kai Wood Mah, about their book, Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics (https://www.ubcpress.ca/situated-prac...) , published by Dalhousie Architectural Press in 2024.


In our conversation, Patrick and Kai speak of the importance of situated learning and practice, which involves architects engaging with communities to co-create knowledge as a mode not just of transforming spaces and making things, but as an ethnographic means of seeing things through the eyes of communities. Situated practices, they argue, force a necessary politicisation of design thinking, and are as such essential for architects to adapt to post-colonial challenges and contribute to global change.


Patrick is professor at SAIC (https://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty...) in Chicago, has a personal website here (https://www.plrivers.us/) , and can be found on LinkedIn (  / patrick-lynn-rivers-75698010b  ) and Insta (  / patricklynnrivers  ) . Kai is Associate Professor in the McEwan School of Architecture (https://mcewenarchitecture.ca/people/...) at the Laurentian University, Canada and also has a website (https://kaiwoodmah.com/) . Both Patrick and Kai co-direct the design research practice a.field (https://www.afield.ca/) . The book is linked above.


Much to ponder, so little time. Get to it!


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Music credits: ⁠Bruno Gillick (  / user-229193274  )  


Image credit: Pilgrimage to Biete Gabriel-Rufael by Robert Wilson.