In the Pit !

Listen to host Sosa Erhabor and Jahaan Scipio in conversation with Olalekan Jeyifous and Germane Barnes.

Listen to host Sosa Erhabor and Sydney Maubert in conversation with Jerome Haferd, Curry Hackett and Khalid Hassan.

Listen to host Sosa Erhabor and Sydney Maubert in conversation with Justin G.Moore, Walter Hoods and Josh Greene.

Episode 1 | PAST : Ife Vanable and Mabel Wilson + Charis Armstrong to talk about black architectural historicities, erasure, exposure, and fetishization.

We are excited to kick off the platform's first hosted podcast series, Lost Rituals: Storytelling. Over the course of 4 discussions this semester, our hosts Sosa Erhabor and Sydney Maubert will be discussing the divide between written and spoken scholarship, the importance of space in the context of oral traditions, mentorship, legitimacy, and much more.

Billie Tsien and Tod Williams of TWBTA in conversation with Abby Reed and Grace Zajdel regarding Slowness in Architecture, Art, and Life. TWBTA (www.twbta.com) is a NYC-based architecture firm that sees architecture as an act of profound optimism. Through its work, the office considers what it means to leave a thoughtful legacy on material culture, community, and space.

The founding members of the second annual Yale Mental Health Symposium (YMHS)speak with Chloe Hou (@chloe_m_ss) and Grace Zajdel (@sculp.i.tecture) regarding the intersection of mental health and architecture. An ongoing student-led project, the YMHS aims to involve perspectives from a variety of disciplines and encourage peers to activate and take initiative to solve problems in the world around them.

Dami Olufowoshe, Gabriel Fries-Briggs, Lena Pozdnyakova, and Eldar Tagi, in conversation with Brian Orser (M.Arch I, 2022) about Materials and Applications, .a Los Angeles-based non-profit exhibition space for art and architecture that also runs the city's only terrestrial architecture radio station (https://www.materialsandapplications.org/ma-radio-kgap-967).

Jennifer Newsom + Ozayr Saloojee in conversation with Josh Greene (M.Arch I, 2023), Meghna Mudaliar (M.Arch I, 2022), Dominiq Oti (M.Arch I, 2022), Hannah Mayer Baydoun (M.Arch I, 2022), Audrey Fischer (M.Arch I, 2022) to talk about unsettling architecture, strengthening geographies of care, and opening up the dialogue around how we think about territory and its many narratives and histories.

Episode 7 of the Paprika? In the Pit podcast brings Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (OceanCollectiv & Urban Ocean Lab) and Bryan Lee (Colloqate Design) in conversation with Jessica Kim (M.Arch I, 2022) to talk expansively across climate change, design justice, and working through spatial practices of radical, interdisciplinary collaboration.

This week, we have a special episode of In the Pit produced in collaboration with NOMAS Yale—Ife Adepegba (M.Arch I, 2021) & Araceli Lopez (M.Arch I, 2021) sat down to speak with Justin Garrett Moore, the Executive Director of New York Public Design Commission. Justin described his experience working on a side of the design field that is often under-recognized in spite of its outsized role in the organization of urban space, and shared his plans for the forthcoming course he is teaching at Yale, "Urban Difference and Change," which will be cross-registered with Morgan State University. Thank you to Ife, Araceli, Justin, and NOMAS for sharing this conversation with us. Also a huge thank you to our new producer, Milo Bonacci (GD MFA, 2021) for editing and composing the music for this episode.

In the wake of the I.C.E. order, Paprika? invited several students to speak with one another about immigration and BIPOC/international student experience at Yale. Due to the length and critical importance of each of these conversations, we decided to release each conversation separately over the last week. To wrap up this 3-part series, we have Sangji Han(M.Arch I, 2022) and Christina Zhang (B.A., 2017 & M.Arch I, 2022), who spoke on their time in the United States in both academia and in the profession as international students.

In the wake of the I.C.E. order, Paprika? invited several students to speak with one another about immigration and international student experience at Yale. Due to the length and critical importance of each of these conversations, we have decided to release each conversation separately over the next few days. Today, for Episode 004 of "In the Pit," we have Limy Rocha (M.Arch I, 2020) and Jen Shin (M.E.M & M.Arch II, 2020) , who graciously shared their perspectives on community and the difficulties therein at YSoA. Stay tuned for more!

In the wake of the I.C.E. order, Paprika? invited several students to speak with one another about immigration and international student experience at Yale. Due to the length and critical importance of each of these conversations, we have decided to release each conversation separately over the next few days. Today, for Episode 003 of "In the Pit," we have Joshua Tan (M.Arch I, 2022) and Jessica Jie Zhou (M.Arch I, 2022), who graciously shared their perspectives on community and the difficulties therein at YSoA. Stay tuned for more!

This week, Paprika?'s Coordinating Editor team spoke with several students and recent alumni (congrats Adam and Liwei!) about their perspectives on Paprika—both the exclamation and the question. Our interlocutors discussed the unexpected challenges and rewards of working on Paprika!? and what it might take to build community at Yale, especially in light of COVID-19. Thank you Claudia Ansorena (M.Arch II, 2022), Angela Lufkin (M.Arch I, 2021), Adam Thibodeaux (M.Arch II, 2020), & Liwei Wang (M.Arch I & MBA, 2020) for joining us.

Paprika? invited Lilly Agutu and Sarah Kim, two students in the Yale M.Arch I, to hold a conversation on their experiences during the last year as BIPOC students and to speak a bit about their current and upcoming work with Equality in Design (EiD) and the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS).