139. Planetary and the Climate Crisis with James Graham

Original Drawing by Tori Haynes

This week, we are joined by James Graham who is currently an assistant professor at CCA, and used to be faculty at Columbia University and handled publications there. His work heavily revolves around the planetary and climate crisis.

Timestamp Outline 

2:41    Climate Imaginaries

3:33   Climate Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary
What is the imaginary behind the title?

5:12 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

11:11    How did you pull the scientists into the school of architecture?

15:04 “The permission to work on anything you feel like” and “Disciplinary straight jacket-ery” VP

19:35 Planetary - familiar and unfamiliar

20:30    Lissitzky and the blue marble

26:18 James and growing up in the Episcopal church

29:03 “Modernism hasn’t succeeded” VP

34:53 “In architecture, we produce technical solutions, but lack the imaginaries”

35:27 What are the new imaginaries?

38:00 Mobility - Lydia Kiesling

47:16 How connected are you with design culture?

50:29 Land Acknowledgement project

52:39 East coast vs. West coast