Relentless Mutuality: Microorganisms, Humans and Architecture
INTERVIEWEE: Beatriz Colomina, Uriel Fogué / elii, Orkan Telhan, and Mark Wigley
INTERVIEWER: Valerio Franzone
MAGAZINE: KoozArch
ISSUE: #04 | Terra infirma
PUBLISHED:
December 18, 2024
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A conversation with Beatriz Colomina, Uriel Fogué / elii, Orkan Telhan, and Mark Wigley on the transscalar cohabitations that happen within different worlds, from the bodily to the planetary.
Microorganisms, humans, and architecture have always been intrinsically intertwined, but their relationships haven’t always been fully understood. It’s a history of life, death, and intertwined evolutions shaped by numerous intimate entanglements at various scales and times. Perhaps the climate crisis represents the perfect moment to change our canonical paradigms of understanding a more-than-human relationship, allowing us to better understand architecture’s limits and potentialities, defining its possible new roles.
This conversation is part of KoozArch's Issue #04 | Terra Infirma.