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SUMMARY:Event: Shumi Bose: "   [   Holding  Space   ]   " / South X Initia
 tive
DTSTART:20251117T183000
DTEND:20251117T200000
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DESCRIPTION:Shumi Bose is an educator\, curator and editor in the field of
  architecture and architectural history. She is Senior Lecturer in Archite
 cture at UAL Central Saint Martins in London\, and also teaches at the Roy
 al College of Art\, Syracuse University and the Technische Universität Wi
 en. She has curated widely\, including at the Venice Biennale\, the Victor
 ia and Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects.\n\nShu
 mi is Chief Editor of KoozArch\, and contributes regularly to books and pe
 riodicals 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 d
 iscussions in architectural education\, and currently serves as trustee fo
 r the Architecture Foundation.\nShumi Bose: " [ Holding Space ] " \nMond
 ay\, 17 November 2025\; 18:30 \nArchizoom\, EPFL \n\nThe fact is that so
 metimes the most nebulous forms can carry the greatest significance\, and 
 that intersections are at once chaotic and ordained.\n\nHolding 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 h
 arm's way — even to be held in high regard. In this conversation — inv
 oking 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.\n \nShumi Bose is an ed
 ucator\, curator and editor in the field of architecture and architectural
  history. She is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at UAL Central Saint Mart
 ins in London\, and also teaches at the Royal College of Art\, Syracuse Un
 iversity and the Technische Universität Wien. She has curated widely\, in
 cluding at the Venice Biennale\, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Ro
 yal Institute of British Architects.\n\nShumi is Chief Editor of KoozArch\
 , and contributes regularly to books and periodicals including Log\, PIN-U
 P and Wallpaper*. She is a founding member of Architects for Gaza and part
  of the critical reading group\, Unsettled Subjects. In 2020 she founded H
 oldspace\, a platform for extracurricular discussions in architectural edu
 cation\, and currently serves as trustee for the Architecture Foundation.\
 n\nThe South X Initiative is a new platform at EPFL dedicated to bringin
 g together voices from across the “Global South” to collectively thin
 k about our built environment. Here\, “South” refers to geographies\, 
 material practices\, climates\, ecologies\, and cultures that have navigat
 ed 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 offe
 rs a platform for exploring alternative methods\, processes\, and narrativ
 es of spatial praxes. 
LOCATION:Archizoom
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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