Event: Shumi Bose: " [ Holding Space ] " / South X Initiative
Event details
| Date | 17.11.2025 |
| Hour | 18:30 › 20:00 |
| Speaker |
Shumi Bose is an educator, curator and editor in the field of architecture and architectural history. She is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at UAL Central Saint Martins in London, and also teaches at the Royal College of Art, Syracuse University and the Technische Universität Wien. She has curated widely, including at the Venice Biennale, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects. Shumi is Chief Editor of KoozArch, and contributes regularly to books and periodicals including Log, PIN-UP and Wallpaper*. She is a founding member of Architects for Gaza and part of the critical reading group, Unsettled Subjects. In 2020 she founded Holdspace, a platform for extracurricular discussions in architectural education, and currently serves as trustee for the Architecture Foundation. |
| Location |
Archizoom
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Shumi Bose: " [ Holding Space ] "
Monday, 17 November 2025; 18:30
Archizoom, EPFL
The fact is that sometimes the most nebulous forms can carry the greatest significance, and that intersections are at once chaotic and ordained.
Holding signifies an interim occupation. It suggests that which is potential, a parenthesis of possibility — to be put “on hold”, to land on a ‘holding page’, perhaps to have ‘holdings’ in terms of assets, to be liquefied on command. Yet to be held is the thing we want most: in safety, out of harm's way — even to be held in high regard. In this conversation — invoking whisper networks, itinerant initiatives and unaffiliated alliances — we will talk about holding space as an emergent practice, in the gaps left by institutions and their metrics of value.
Shumi Bose is an educator, curator and editor in the field of architecture and architectural history. She is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at UAL Central Saint Martins in London, and also teaches at the Royal College of Art, Syracuse University and the Technische Universität Wien. She has curated widely, including at the Venice Biennale, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Shumi is Chief Editor of KoozArch, and contributes regularly to books and periodicals including Log, PIN-UP and Wallpaper*. She is a founding member of Architects for Gaza and part of the critical reading group, Unsettled Subjects. In 2020 she founded Holdspace, a platform for extracurricular discussions in architectural education, and currently serves as trustee for the Architecture Foundation.
The South X Initiative is a new platform at EPFL dedicated to bringing together voices from across the “Global South” to collectively think about our built environment. Here, “South” refers to geographies, material practices, climates, ecologies, and cultures that have navigated socio-political and ecological change, and in doing so, have produced distinct spatial forms and cultural traditions. Through semester-themed guest lectures, reading discussions, and workshops, the initiative offers a platform for exploring alternative methods, processes, and narratives of spatial praxes. e initiative offers a platform for exploring alternative methods, processes, and narratives of spatial praxes.
Monday, 17 November 2025; 18:30
Archizoom, EPFL
The fact is that sometimes the most nebulous forms can carry the greatest significance, and that intersections are at once chaotic and ordained.
Holding signifies an interim occupation. It suggests that which is potential, a parenthesis of possibility — to be put “on hold”, to land on a ‘holding page’, perhaps to have ‘holdings’ in terms of assets, to be liquefied on command. Yet to be held is the thing we want most: in safety, out of harm's way — even to be held in high regard. In this conversation — invoking whisper networks, itinerant initiatives and unaffiliated alliances — we will talk about holding space as an emergent practice, in the gaps left by institutions and their metrics of value.
Shumi Bose is an educator, curator and editor in the field of architecture and architectural history. She is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at UAL Central Saint Martins in London, and also teaches at the Royal College of Art, Syracuse University and the Technische Universität Wien. She has curated widely, including at the Venice Biennale, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Shumi is Chief Editor of KoozArch, and contributes regularly to books and periodicals including Log, PIN-UP and Wallpaper*. She is a founding member of Architects for Gaza and part of the critical reading group, Unsettled Subjects. In 2020 she founded Holdspace, a platform for extracurricular discussions in architectural education, and currently serves as trustee for the Architecture Foundation.
The South X Initiative is a new platform at EPFL dedicated to bringing together voices from across the “Global South” to collectively think about our built environment. Here, “South” refers to geographies, material practices, climates, ecologies, and cultures that have navigated socio-political and ecological change, and in doing so, have produced distinct spatial forms and cultural traditions. Through semester-themed guest lectures, reading discussions, and workshops, the initiative offers a platform for exploring alternative methods, processes, and narratives of spatial praxes. e initiative offers a platform for exploring alternative methods, processes, and narratives of spatial praxes.
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- South X Initiative