The Funambulist: Politics of Space and Bodies
Léopold Lambert & Shivangi Mariam Raj (The Funambulist)




The Funambulist was created as a blog in 2010, following an editorial line that tried to establish the various complicities of architecture with various regimes of oppression, in particular settler colonialism. In 2013, it was coupled with a podcast. In August 2015, the first issue of The Funambulist magazine was launched and, ten years later, 61 issues have been published. It is a print and online, trilingual (English, French, Spanish) magazine dedicated to the politics of space and bodies, and the cultivation of internationalist solidarities between anticolonial, antiracist, queer, and feminist struggles. Although not an architectural publication, its insistence on spatial politics make it relevant in architectural discourse and education, at a moment when new generations of architects refuse the complicities the discipline forces onto them. In this short presentation, editor Léopold Lambert and head of communications Shivangi Mariam Raj will present both the magazine's politics of contents and its politics of production.


Participants are warmly invited to watch  Léopold’s ‘When the walls tighten on you’ and read  The Funambulist no. 45 ahead of the Conversation.

Content in Practice
Ruturaj Parikh & Maanasi Hattangadi (MATTER)






MATTER was founded as an interdisciplinary practice exploring the interface between content and architecture to influence the direction of professional discourse on architecture in India. In this process, the model for an open, inclusive, engaging practice emerged, which deals with discourse through pragmatic, open-source formats where issues of contemporary practice in India are discussed in an attempt to influence the directions and positions of practice. This, in turn, nourishes MATTER and our work as architects. The presentation will focus on projects at the interface of content and architecture.