This podcast features Iarina Tava, an architect working in Romania in a interdisciplinary way. We discuss how unlearning relates to the way she works and particularly focus on a project called Voice Your Place that she undertook with high school students in her Romanian home town. The podcast is 28 minutes long.
To explore more of Iarina’s work you can visit the website for the Voice Your Place project where the audio guide can be listened to in English: https://voiceyourplace.com/en/
The website for Iarina’s studio is here: https://nuumroom.com/
A link for the bird nests discussed in the podcast is here: https://www.anuala.ro/en/projects/2023/222/
A 12-minute excerpt from the movie by artist Mircea Nicolae – Romanian Kiosk Company (the film has 55minutes): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpzksl
During the interview, Iarina recommends the books of Ursula le Guin– particularly, as we later discussed, The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness- and the work of bell hooks– particularly Teaching to Transgress and All About Love.
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/
https://bellhooksbooks.com/product/teaching-to-transgress/
Iarina recommended the animated short: I like life a lot by Kati Macskássy, 1977. The first minute of the animation is available below.
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