Conversations



The SHIFT* Collective in conversation with emerging and established scholars, practitioners, artists, and thinkers. 




Hernán Bianchi Benguria

FEBRUARY 2024

On Governance, Counter-Mapping, and Spatial Justice between Architecture and Geography.


Published in Scaffold Volume 1.1, Section 1: Community Engagement + Participatory Processes.


Lukas Pauer

MARCH 2024

On Developing an Architectural Framework for Geopolitical Investigation. 



Published in Scaffold Volume 1.1, Section 2: Open-Source Intelligence + Discourse Analysis.



Zachary Mollica

FEBRUARY 2024

On Learning from Trees, Building for a Warming Future, and Choosing the Right Tools. 



Published in Scaffold Volume 1.1, Section 3: Iterative Modelling + Material Exploration.




Yeo-Jin Katerina Bong

FEBRUARY 2024

On Navigating the Archives and What We Can Learn from Failed Buildings. 



Published in Scaffold Volume 1.1, Section 4: Archival Research + Historical Readings.



Miles Gertler

FEBRUARY 2024

On COMMON ACCOUNTS and What Death Can Teach us About Culture and City-Building. 



Published in Scaffold Volume 1.1, Section 6: Architectural Speculation + Representation-Based Inquiry.



Erin Reznick

FEBRUARY 2023

On Creative Exploration, New Opportunities, and The Free Press.



Included in as a feature of SHIFT* Magazine 11: Fantasy Deconstructed.



Maria Arusiag Saatgian

FEBRUARY 2023

On the Possibilities and Fallacies of Artificial Intelligence.



Included in as a feature of SHIFT* Magazine 11: Fantasy Deconstructed.



Trina Moyan

FEBRUARY 2023

On Indigenous Storytelling and ‘The Cave that Hummed a Song.’



Included in as a feature of SHIFT* Magazine 11: Fantasy Deconstructed.




Based in Toronto, The SHIFT* Collective is a student-run publishing collective that aims to disentangle the practices of art, architecture, and design from the biases, exclusivity, and elitism that have historically shaped their canon.  

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