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InterVIEW 12 Doctoral Program in Architecture, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Dr Jorge Figueira, Coordinator of the PhD Seminar in Cultural Studies and Architecture, Director, School of Architecture (2010-2017) Dr Rui Lobo, Coordinator of the PhD Seminar in Theory and History of Architecture and Urbanism, Universidade de Coimbra (PhD) Dr Nuno Alberto Leite Rodrigues Grande, Coordinator of the PhD Seminar in Urban Culture and Design, Universidade de Coimbra (PhD) Interviewers: Architecture PhD Program, Carleton University (CU), Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism PhD Students: Bruno Silvestre, Shanne Stines, Ashleigh Abraham MAS Students: Emiliano Ruidiaz, Leah Snyder Faculty: Professor Federica Goffi ASAU, CU, ON Canada In –InterVIEW/LISTEN 12–Dr. Jorge Figueira, Dr. Rui Lobo and Dr. Nuno Alberto Leite Rodriguez Grande discussed their respective roles as Coordinators of the PhD Seminar in Cultural Studies and Architecture; the PhD Seminar in Theory and History of Architecture and Urbanism; and the PhD Seminar in Urban Culture and Design, which are part of the Doctoral Program in Architecture at the Universidade de Coimbra in Portugal. During the interVIEW, the programs coordinators provided an overview of the doctoral programs at the Universidade de Coimbra, offering insight into some of the history that has led to the establishment of the three research areas, and their current developments. They were also asked to speak about how research is defined in the program, and in what way the program structure, tools and opportunities contribute to the development of the research outcomes of the program and how these in turn shape the student’s own research. The questions also covered the role of the supervisor and whether students define their research topics independently over the three years of the program, or whether these are based on the school’s research areas, funding opportunities or are influenced by the Visiting Professors who are invited to run workshops for the doctoral students in the three PhD programs. Each year, invited Visiting Professors bring new research themes to the school that fall within the broad scope of cultural studies in architecture and intersect with other field of knowledge such as post-colonialism, feminism, post-modernism, psychoanalysis, etc. Anthony Vidler (1941-2023), for example, delivered a workshop on the theme of the architectural uncanny.

InterVIEW LISTEN 11 Dr. Henrik Oxvig November4 2025 [1 h + 48 min] Dr. Henrik Oxvig Head Head of the PhD school at The Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark ​ ​ Interviewers in order of participation: Federica Goffi Professor, CRIPTIC Chair, ASAU, CU & Christopher Alton PhD Student ASAU, CU Julie Ivanoff PhD Student ASAU, CU Aymen Aiblu PhD Student ASAU, CU Kitt Man PhD Student ASAU, CU In –InterVIEW/LISTEN 11–Dr. Henrik Oxvig discussed his role as head of the PhD school at The Royal Danish Academy in Denmark, which includes also Industrial PhD students. Dr. Oxvig is an associate professor and has been directing the PhD program since 2005. During the interVIEW, Dr. Oxvig provided an overview of the doctoral program at the Royal Danish Academy, offering insight into the structure, its history and current developments. He also discussed his role and contributions as head of the program, and answered questions about the course of study of Industrial PhD students. The interview invited Dr. Oxvig to discuss the research approaches of Industrial PhD students and how the collaboration with industry shapes the research outcomes. The questions also covered the role of the supervisor and whether students define their research topics independently, or whether these are based on the school’s research areas, funding opportunities or industry partnerships. Dr. Oxvig discussed the potential challenges and broadening of horizons that arise when pursuing an Industrial PhD. In the second part of the interview, Dr. Oxvig offered insights into his research work addressing questions about architectural representation, addressing his 2007 ARCC Journal paper, “Ceci n’est Pas Une Pipe. The Architectural Drawing between Representation and Function” where he wrote about the concept of the Hydra digital drawings, as well as a 2009 co-authored piece with Michael Asgaard Andersen titled ‘Paradoxes of Appearing’, published in Paradoxes of Appearing: Essays on Art, Architecture and Philosophy (Lars Müller Publishers, 2009: 9-10). ​ Dr. Henrik Oxvig is associate professor and head of the Phd program at the Royal Danish Academy. He has previously been an assistant professor at the Department of Art History, Aarhus University and associate professor at the Department of Art History, University of Copenhagen. Since 2005 he has been an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts' School of Architecture and since 2013 at the Royal Danish Academy (formerly KADK), where he has created a PhD program, of which he is still the leader. His research concerns, how the scientific in general and art history in particular can fertilize the creative practice.

InterVIEW/ASAU IV November 19 2024 Associate Professor Lisa Moffitt, PhD Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada ​ Interviewers in order of participation: Federica Goffi CRIPTIC Chair, PhD & MAS Program Co-Chair ASAU, CU & Rehab Salama PhD student ASAU, CU Kristine Prochnau, PhD student ASAU, CU Bruno Silvestre PhD student ASAU, CU Julie Ivanoff PhD student ASAU, CU

InterVIEW/ASAU V November 21 2024 Assistant Professor Suzanne Harris-Brandts, PhD Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Interviewers in order of participation: Federica Goffi CRIPTIC Chair, PhD & MAS Program Co-Chair ASAU, CU & Romy Poletti PhD student in Cultural Mediations, CU David Bastien-Allard, MAS student ASAU, CU Ashleigh Abraham PhD student ASAU, CU Kitt Mann PhD student ASAU, CU Evan Mullen, MAS student ASAU, CU

InterVIEW/LISTEN 10 November 28 2022 [1 h + 36 min] Dr. Sophia Psarra Director of the Architectural and Urban History and Theory PhD Programme Professor, Bartlett School of Architecture University College London UCL UK ​ Interviewers in order of participation: Federica Goffi CRIPTIC Chair, PhD & MAS Program Co-Chair ASAU, CU & Simone Fallica PhD Student ASAU, CU Sharmeen Dafedar PhD Student ASAU, CU Mahsa Esmailpour MAS Student ASAU, CU Stephanie Murray MAS Student ASAU, CU ​ Screenshot 2023-05-08 at 9.59.05 PM.png Screenshot 2023-05-08 at 10.09.52 PM.png In –InterVIEW/LISTEN 10–Dr. Sophia Psarra discussed her role as Director of the Architectural and Urban History and Theory PhD Programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) in the UK, where she is a Professor of Architecture and Spatial Design. Dr. Psarra offered an overview of the five doctoral programs at the Bartlett School of Architecture, explaining how they are differentiated from each other. Next, she discussed her role as PhD Program Director of the Architectural and Urban History and Theory PhD Programme, defining the uniqueness of the interdisciplinary program in which students can collaborate with other departments within UCL. The interview includes a discussion on the research media and methods students undertake to define emerging questions and arrive at their contributions to knowledge, defining the inherent agency and originality of their work. Finally, she discussed the role of the supervisor and the advisory committee. Dr. Psarra spoke about the fruitful interaction between the Architectural and Urban History and Theory PhD and the PhD by Design Program, which share a critical engagement with history, theory, contemporary issues and the role of the architect in society. All the seminars are shared between the two programs, and there is an annual conference and exhibition on which the programs collaborate. Dr. Psarra also commented on emerging Doctoral Training Centres (DTC) in the UK that rely on funding from the UK Research Councils (RCUK) to develop specific disciplinary and interdisciplinary questions. Schools can apply to host a DTC program based on calls launched by the UK Research Council. In the second part of the interview, Dr. Psarra offered insights into her research work addressing questions of authorship, narrative plurality, and architecture as an instrument of power, based on a number of her writings, including her book, Architecture and Narrative, published by Routledge in 2009, which deals with architecture as a semi-autonomous object. Finally, the interview concluded with reflections on her latest book, The Venice Variations, published by UCL Press 2018, also available in open access.

InterVIEW/LISTEN 9 October 17 2022 [1 h + 44 min] Dr. Eunice Seng Chair, Departmental Research Postgraduate Committee in Architecture, Associate Professor PhD program, Faculty of Architecture University of Hong Kong HKU Hong Kong - Interviewers in order of participation: Federica Goffi CRIPTIC Chair, PhD & MAS Program Co-Chair ASAU, CU &michelle liu PhD Student ASAU, CU Adila Mehjebin PhD Student ASAU, CU Ushma Thakrar, PhD Student ASAU, CU Sena Kurcenli Koyunlu, PhD Student ASAU, CU In –InterVIEW/LISTEN 9–Dr. Eunice Seng discussed her role as Chair of the Departmental Research Postgraduate Committee in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in Hong Kong and some key initiatives she has implemented in the program since starting in this role. She was invited to comment on the history, recent developments and uniqueness of the PhD Program in Architecture at HKU. Dr. Seng discussed the relevance and currency of criticism today, the methodological approaches and some of the research outcomes in the PhD program at HKU as well as the limitations and opportunities encountered when working at a distance from a research site. In the second part of the interview, Dr. Seng offered insights into her own research work, addressing questions about her recent publications and, in particular, her book Resistant City: Histories, Maps and the Architecture of Development, published in 2020 in Singapore by World Scientific Publishing Co. The book maps contested spaces in Hong Kong through field observations, analytical drawings, archival research and film studies. She also discussed her work with SKEW collaborative and how she operates between practice, research and teaching. ​ She addresses questions about the role of public space in Hong Kong as a contested, uneven space reclaimed in everyday activities and commented that the boundary between public and private space is constantly re-negotiated. Finally, she provided insights into her ongoing research and forthcoming publications.

Dr Henrieta Moravčíková Director, Department of Architecture PhD program, Faculty of Architecture and Design Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava - Interviewers in order of participation: Federica Goffi CRIPTIC Chair, PhD & MAS Program Co-Chair ASAU, CU & Isabel Potworowski PhD Student ASAU, CU, Stephanie Murray MAS Student ASAU, CU Yu Zhen PhD Student ASAU, CU In –InterVIEW/LISTEN 8–Dr. Henrieta Moravčiková discussed her role as Director of the Department of Architecture at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) in Bratislava / faculty of architecture at the Slovak Technical University and some of the key initiatives she undertook in the program. She offered an introduction of the SAV PhD program in architecture at STU and discussed the research approaches as well as the mediums of research employed by PhD students in the program. Furthermore, she spoke of her role as chair of the Slovak working group DOCOMOMO for research and protection of modern architecture, as well as the connections between the activities of DOCOMOMO and research being carried out at the department of architecture. In the second part of the interview, Dr. Moravčiková offered insights into her own research work addressing the relations between practice and academic work. The questions addressed the 2020 online conference “[Un]Planned City” in the framework of the research project “Unintentional City: Architectonic and Urbanistic Conceptions of the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Urban Structure of Bratislava,” which Dr. Moravčiková co-organized, and the research she presented at the same event: “Bratislava, (Un)Planned City: Notes on the Interpretation of Planning and Construction History.” She addressed questions on two of her books: Modern and/or Totalitarian Architecture of the 20th C in Slovakia (Moravčiková, Slovart, 2013) and Bratislava (Un)Planned City (Moravcikova, Henrieta, Peter Szalay, Katarína Haberlandová, Laura Krišteková and Monika Bočková, Bratislava, Slovart, 2020). Lastly, in consideration of how historical cities often resist a complete re-writing, she was invited to discuss whether the incompletion and fragmentation of Bratislava is a beneficial quality in its urban development or something that has prevented positive change at particular time junctures.

March 3 2022 Assistant Professor Menna Agha, PhD Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada ​ - Interviewers in order of participation: Federica Goffi CRIPTIC Chair, PhD & MAS Program Co-Chair ASAU, CU & Warren Borg PhD student ASAU, CU Reem Awad, PhD student ASAU, CU Ahmed Elsherrif PhD student ASAU, CU Stephanie Murray MAS student ASAU, CU Yu Zheng, PhD student ASAU, CU In –InterVIEW/ASAU III- Dr. Menna Agha, Assistant Professor at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism (ASAU) at Carleton University, was invited to reflect on her doctoral experience at the University of Antwerp and how her Nubian culture, heritage, and identity influence her research methods. She spoke about her role and work in the recently established Design and Spatial Justice research area at the ASAU, and discussed her interest in decolonial theory and the methodologies and approaches to research that she has been pursuing in her own work, including auto-ethnographic and reflexivity methods. During the interview she delved into questions of space, place, and imagination in Nubian culture through a decolonial lens, with particular attention to critical themes related to women, gender, and feminism. In the concluding part of the interview, Dr. Agha reflected on her diverse roles as architect, researcher, and teacher.

Under the theme of Architectures of Hiding, this set features installations of recording and transcribing silenced layers of history. Today Lifta is fighting a development plan by the occupation that decontextualizes its structures and neglects its history. The plan proposes alienated programs as a method of concealing its position of using architecture to serve political agendas. The podcast features Hala Barakat in conversation with Ryan Stec, Artistic Director at Artengine, and Pallavi Swaranjali, co-convenor, Architectures of Hiding and co-coordinator of C R | P T | C. The creative piece by Hala Barakat can be found at https://www.architecturesofhiding.com/exhibition

Under the theme of Architectures of Hiding, Avert is a work situated within the public sites in which gender-based violence operates, subtly existing alongside the day-to-day ebb and f|ow of pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Through this positioning, the work critiques these spaces which can be designed unsafely, and which are undoubtedly socially regulated by settler-colonial heteropatriarchal systems of oppression. The podcast features Heather Leier in conversation with Ryan Stec, Artistic Director at Artengine, and Pallavi Swaranjali, co-convenor, Architectures of Hiding and co-coordinator of C R | P T | C. The creative piece by Heather Leier can be found at https://www.architecturesofhiding.com/exhibition

Under the theme of Architectures of Hiding, this lecture-performance, creates a rewriting of history in the form of a series of speculative events that are rooted in political incidents that affected the artist’s family. It explores the link between architecture, memory, and history, focusing on the institutions—school, hospital, and prison—through which the state imprints power on or actually destroys bodies to eradicate memory and control the writing of History. The podcast features Anahita Norouzi in conversation with Ryan Stec, Artistic Director at Artengine, and Pallavi Swaranjali, co-convenor, Architectures of Hiding and co-coordinator of C R | P T | C. The creative piece by Anahita Norouzi can be found at https://www.architecturesofhiding.com/exhibition

Under the theme of Architectures of Hiding, Verdures is part of an ongoing investigation of the relationship between landscape and camouf|age. It uses Mimicry camouf|age, which is an image with multiple roles: at once a synthetic representation of a landscape at a distinct moment, it is also, with its concealment of hunters through clothing or shelters, a device for the manipulation of an environment. The podcast features François Sabourin and Bertrand Rougier in conversation with Ryan Stec, Artistic Director at Artengine, and Pallavi Swaranjali, co-convenor, Architectures of Hiding and co-coordinator of C R | P T | C. The creative piece by François Sabourin and Bertrand Rougier can be found at https://www.architecturesofhiding.com/exhibition

Under the theme of Architectures of Hiding, Hidden Relics investigates a secret design found hidden inside a wall of a building: two lavishly illustrated empty match-boxes, a holy picture with a prayer, a king of cups briscola card, a wooden spoon. What can we infer from these relics? Endless stories. The podcast features Claudio Sgarbi in conversation with Ryan Stec, Artistic Director at Artengine, and Pallavi Swaranjali, co-convenor, Architectures of Hiding and co-coordinator of C R | P T | C. The creative piece by Claudio Sgarbi can be found at https://www.architecturesofhiding.com/exhibition

Full Title: Architectures of Hiding | The Art and Craft of Asking your Boss for a Raise: Josh Silver in conversation Under the theme of Architectures of Hiding, The Art and Craft of Asking your Boss for a Raise attempts to access the dynamic material conditions of the past in its most banal, everyday forms, artefacts and their mechanisms, visualised and played-out in theatrical space (for this project, a stage adaptation of Georges Perec’s novella entitled The Art and Craft of Asking Your Boss for a Raise) utilising constraint operations (defined by Harry Mathews as, “A strict and clearly definable rule, method, procedure or structure that generates a [textual work],” expanded by Georges Perec as, “describable, definable [and] available to everyone.”). The podcast features Josh Silver in conversation with Ryan Stec, Artistic Director at Artengine, and Pallavi Swaranjali, co-convenor, Architectures of Hiding and co-coordinator of C R | P T | C. The creative piece by Josh Silver can be found at https://www.architecturesofhiding.com/exhibition

Dr. Mark Dorrian Forbes Chair in Architecture ESALA Edinburgh College of Art University of Edinburgh, Scotland ​ - Interviewers: Federica Goffi CRIPTIC Chair, PhD & MAS Program Co-Chair ASAU, CU & Warren Borg PhD student ASAU, CU Damiano Aiello PhD student ASAU, CU Marco Ianni PhD student ASAU, CU Serkan Taycan PhD student ASAU, CU - In –InterVIEW/LISTEN 6–Dr. Mark Dorrian, the Forbes Chair in Architecture, at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA, The University of Edinburgh), was invited to offer insight into the history, research approaches and areas of knowledge contribution in the PhD program in Architecture and the PhD by Design. About 90 students are enrolled in the four PhD programs at ESALA at any one time. Dr. Dorrian was also invited to offer insights into his research. The series of questions that follows deal primarily with his 2015 book Writing on the Image: Architecture, the City and the Politics of Representation (I.B. Tauris), which brings together selected essays developed over a period of ten years (2004-2013), organized under fields of interest such as –elevated vision, cloud architecture, atmospheric politics– interacting with several disciplines. He commented on his notion of a-disciplinarity in architecture research and a desire for openess in theoretical questioning. The interview constitutes a deep reflection on themes related to architecture and the city, within the larger context of the politics of representation. Dr. Dorrian concluded the interview affirming the inescapable centrality of questions relating to the politics of representation today, stating that all knowledge is mediated in some way by it.