Attention — Audio Journal for Architecture
by Architecture ExchangeAttention is an audio journal for architectural culture that uses the medium of sound and spoken word to capture a dimension of architecture otherwise lost in print. By precluding visual media, Attention strikes a distance between the distraction economy of much online media, creating an intimate and reflective space for the in-depth development of ideas and issues. Through interviews, roundtable debates, oral histories, field recordings, the exploration of archival recordings, experimental music and soundscapes, reportage and audio essays, Attention investigates issues of concern to contemporary architectural culture, theory and practice.
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The podcast is hosted on architecture.exchange. Each episode is on average 37:05 long.
Episodes
7D. Playing the Detective
In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the artist, puzzle-maker, and escape room designer Laura E. Hall about the design of escape rooms for the public, building community, and the politics of play. Together, they reflect on the popular appeal of detective work in an era of corporate dragnet surveillance.
37:43 playtime · Published 5 months ago · Permalink
7E. Bypass Codes
In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the investigative journalist and veteran beat reporter Caryn Dolley about the use of biometric and building surveillance devices in organized crime networks. With reference to her journalism and research for her book “The Enforcers” (2019), Dolley describes the movement of illicit and counterfeit goods through...Read more
17:43 playtime · Published 5 months ago · Permalink
7A. Introduction
In this episode, Megan Eardley introduces Issue 7 by relating contemporary spatial practices to the literary detective story and present day political realities of surveillance, state violence, and justice work.
05:51 playtime · Published 5 months ago · Permalink
7C. Invisibility As Form
In this episode, Megan Eardley invites listeners to reflect on the way that detective work operates between form and event. She interviews the artist Janice Kerbel about the use of detective work in pieces such as “Bank Job” (1999), “Doug” (2014), and “Sink” (2018). They discuss how detection can be built into form, Kerbel’s experiments using plans to...Read more
19:37 playtime · Published 5 months ago · Permalink
7B. On the Threshold of Detectability
Like proof, evidence typically refers to things, traces, marks, or signs, that can be studied to establish relevant facts and evaluate competing theories. But while proof has been associated with tests and verification procedures since the thirteenth century, evidence (or the Latin evidentia) refers to something that is “manifest to the senses” and...Read more
25:50 playtime · Published 5 months ago · Permalink
7F. The Sound Of Secrecy
In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the writer and artist Bryan Finoki. He describes how he came to study the security industry and reflects on his process of harvesting his own field recordings, synthesized sounds, and files scraped off the web, to make Dark Freqs, an original sound composition produced for Attention and this issue on Detective Work.
12:54 playtime · Published 5 months ago · Permalink
7G. Dark Freqs
This episode presents Dark Freqs, an original sound piece by Bryan Finoki. Please note that the piece incorporates recordings of police brutality.
18:27 playtime · Published 5 months ago · Permalink
6A. Community Design As A Process
In Episode 1, Anna Goodman explains how contemporary architects in the United States often pursue community-engaged work through the design of processes. Analysis from the architectural historian Susanne Cowan helps demonstrate how this contrasts with early modern designers’ strong association of community and territory. The episode features excerpts from...Read more
33:43 playtime · Published over 1 year ago · Permalink
6B. Karl Linn and the Idea of Neighborhood Commons
In Episode 2, Anna Goodman describes a shift in the way architects in the United States viewed community starting in the early 1960s. Using audio clips from participants in an experimental park and playground built under that leadership of the influential community designer Karl Linn, it documents a transition from practices that linked community to the...Read more
38:32 playtime · Published over 1 year ago · Permalink
6C. Ecological Community At People’s Park
In Episode 3, Anna Goodman explores how a focus on the process of design over its products located community design at the intersection of anti-institutional activism and other social movements. It focuses on a series of events catalyzed by the construction of Berkeley’s People’s Park, using audio clips of participants provided by the Pacific Radio...Read more
41:28 playtime · Published over 1 year ago · Permalink
Attention — Audio Journal for Architecture has 51 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 31:31:23. This podcast has been added on July 28th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on February 5th, 2023 19:09.