Welcome to my podcast about hope. This week is about hope in relation to architecture, and the future of urban environments.
I spoke with the amazing Peter Culley (Spatial Affairs Bureau), an architect/urbanist/naturalist based in UK and US. We chatted about architecture in connection to stories, poetry, peace, calm, and beauty. We discussed the soul of buildings, and Peter’s wonderful idea of replacing the conventional “urban overlay” with a “forest overlay”- so our cities are full of trees and mud and insects. Peter shares the incredible story of the project in Memphis he was involved with, transforming an abandoned Sears building, and the importance of not tearing everything down but working with what exists, because :” It takes 100 years for a place to get its soul back if you remove everything and start again”. We talked about the effect of COVID and how the “shock of quiet, the shock of calm, the shock of birdsong” reminds us that “the world beyond humans is absolutely fine” and that “It takes something as serious as this situation to allow radical changes to happen”
Peter and his company the Spatial Affairs Bureau can be found on twitter and insta @spatialaffairs
Or via their website www.spatialaffairsbureau.com
More soon!
Love Bernadette
My book "How To Be Hopeful" published by Elliot and Thompson is due out September 2020. This podcast series is a chance for me to chat again to some of the people who I interviewed for the book, as well as some people who I didn't have the chance to. I hope you enjoy it.
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How To Be Hopeful Episode 27 "We Are Meant To Be Telling Each Other Stories"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 26 "Hope and Kindness"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 25 "Comedy, cows and cancer"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 24: "Hope and the Young Voices of The Rebellion "
How To Be Hopeful Episode 23 "Theatre of Hope"
How To Be Hopeful episode 22 "No one is too small to make difference"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 21 "Labours of Love"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 20 "This Grief Thing"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 19: "“How can we make the world better? Start small”.
A Manifesto of Care by Bernadette Russell and friends
How To Be Hopeful Episode 18 "Hope and Revolution"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 17 "Hope Is A Forest"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 16 “There Is Always Hope”
How To be Hopeful Episode 15 "This time, there is a listening happening"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 14- "Making The Ordinary Extraordinary"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 13 "Pushing Back With Hope"
WONDER episode 4: original short stories read aloud from Revelation Ashford
How To Be Hopeful Episode 12 "Home Made Mutant Hope Machines"
How To Be Hope Hopeful- Season 1- Episode 11- "Finding The Golden Moments"
How To Be Hopeful Season 1 Episode 10 "I am an advocate of hope”
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