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Occupy! as a call to resist, disrupt and reimagine space at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2025
Sep 25, 2025
At one of the closing ~multilog(ue) sessions, panellists from diverse disciplines discussed modes of resistance to imposed spatial hierarchies.
Avijit Mukul Kishore and Rohan Shivkumar on architecture as autobiography
Sep 16, 2025
At ADFF: STIR Mumbai 2025, the filmmaker-architect duo discussed their film Lovely Villa (2020) and how architecture can be read as a mirror of the nation.
Shimul Javeri Kadri on reclaiming Eileen Gray at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2025
Sep 08, 2025
A screening of E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea (2024) turned into a meditation on power and a flawed architectural history as Kadri delivered a searing ~epilog(ue).
Architecture and cinema as memory and resistance at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2025
Sep 04, 2025
Sameep Padora, Megha Ramaswamy and Kyle Bergman reflected on the tryst between the real and reel in a ~multilog(ue) framing human narratives and experiences in cities.
Tess Joseph and Gaurav Ogale on practising care as culture at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2025
Aug 29, 2025
Holding stories, holding people: The creative duo reflected on archives, imperfection and empathy to frame care as both practice and philosophy in this evocative ~log(ue).
Ranjit Hoskote x Kaiwan Mehta on urban remnants at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2025
Aug 22, 2025
As part of the ~log(ue) programme, the speakers performed vivid readings of their texts to evoke the city's image as a place for strife and violence, but also solidarity and history.
Onassis ONX on cultivating and curating interdisciplinary artscapes
Aug 14, 2025
Jazia Hammoudi and Matthew Niederhauser tell STIR how the hybrid studio fosters creative agency, curates immersive exhibitions and shapes new media culture.
Building through fragility: The making of a Pan-African Architecture Biennale
Aug 08, 2025
In a contemplative conversation with STIR, Somali-Italian architect Omar Degan outlines a biennale shaped not by spectacle, but by resistance, pedagogy and presence.
See You Later on storytelling through stage, sound and scenography
Jul 25, 2025
In a conversation with STIR, Darrius Medina and TJ Hoover talk about designing immersive stages that shape the emotion and movement of a live show.
Philippe Rahm on reconsidering the tools of the discipline with climatic architecture
Jul 04, 2025
STIR speaks to the Swiss architect on his curation for BAP! 2025 in Versailles, his studio's research prerogatives and adapting to global warming as a central strategy for architecture.
Tosin Oshinowo on informal urbanisms in Lagos and the correct end of progress
Jun 27, 2025
The Nigerian architect speaks to STIR about her project at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, touching on informality and resourcefulness as an alternative to hyperconsumerism.
Phyllis Birkby’s lesbian feminist architecture and the probing of fantasy as resistance
Jun 20, 2025
Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture at the Center for Architecture, New York, delves into feminist design as a lens to reimagine architecture.
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