Streetsweeper

In the third and final part of ep.22, we complete the Third World series in Africa and Latin America. We discuss why Brasilia is anti-colonial, and we talk about Ghana a lot while totally ignoring Adjaye because it was recorded before the story and also what more is there to say anyway? Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

In part 2 of ep.22 of streetsweeper, we finally decolonise our content. We move from Venice to the Global South, and from the Global South to the Third World, which we think was better actually and also it's making a comeback. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

Ep. 22 of streetsweeper comes late but is a biggie. In part 1 we again look at Venice from our London pov as it looks at the Global South from its Venice pov. It has no buildings and some say that's bad. Apparently it's got the future in a petri dish tho. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

Episode 21 is late as it was supposed to be about the Venice Biennale but instead became a much bigger thing about "what is Third World architecture" - a question asked by a patron before which we've been wanting to do a deep dive into. It will come in later this month, so in the meantime have a 20min chat about Star Trek. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

In episode 20 of streetsweeper, we were in China for a bit and it was good. Meanwhile in the barbaric West the king gets crowned by the court, tories get courted by labour, and starchitecture uses AI to plagiarise itself. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

In episode 19, we take petty revenge on The Architectural Review who done stole our logo definitely probably. We ruthlessly critique their labour issue and it turns out it's kinda alright. Our broom is still bigger than theirs. And redder. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

This episode, videogames are more real than architecture, games may be art but art definitely isn't, and NFTs are good actually. Oh and also workers unionise. Join us with our good friend, patron, and all around nice guy Luci, Secretary of the UK Game Workers Branch of the IWGB Union. Part 2 https://iwgb.org.uk/en/ https://www.gameworkers.co.uk/ Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

This episode, videogames are more real than architecture, games may be art but art definitely isn't, and NFTs are good actually. Oh and also workers unionise. Join us with our good friend, patron, and all around nice guy Luci, Secretary of the UK Game Workers Branch of the IWGB Union. https://iwgb.org.uk/en/ https://www.gameworkers.co.uk/ Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

This episode, establishment left YIMBYs are racist, the US military was up to something at Pruitt-Igoe, and left architects of the past are on the official US state enemies list. Time to incubate your ideation across full-spectrum analytics. https://proteanmag.com/2022/11/28/pruitt-igoe-a-black-community-under-the-atomic-cloud/ Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

2022 good or bad? Lines in the desert, the 60s in a box, and vaginas in space. We do a year in review and highlights for 2023, courtesy of our favourite architecture outlet Dezeen. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

Some like it in the back, some like it more traditional. This episode, we pull back the curtain on the hidden desires of yet another middle-class culture war. Who the fuck even has a yard anymore? Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

A new king is in town and he has a new town, same as the old town: when houses were houses, streets were streets, and planners were princes. In this episode, we unveil the disurbanist conspiracy linking Charles III, Leon Krier, Rem Koolhaas, and Vlad Tepes. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

Is the welfare-state a compromise we forced on capital, or a psy-op capital forced on us? In episode 13, we do our first mailbag episode, covering the grand total of 1 brilliant question we got from a patron - what is the welfare-state, and should left architects fight for it? Part 2/2 Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

Is the welfare-state a compromise we forced on capital, or a psy-op capital forced on us? In episode 13, we do our first mailbag episode, covering the grand total of 1 brilliant question we got from a patron - what is the welfare-state, and should left architects fight for it? Part 1/2 Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

In episode 12 of streetsweeper, we continue our serious journalism live coverage of architecture workers overthrowing the bourgeoisie, interviewing Charlie Edmonds and Priti Mohandas from Future Architects Front, the informal organisation that set up the proletarian take over of RIBA for shits and giggles. FAF website: https://fafront.co/ FAF Twitter: https://twitter.com/architectsfront?lang=en Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

Dezeen's recent series on Deconstruction was so pointless that we gave up on it halfway through the episode. Instead we bring you Architecture: Good or Bad? Featuring Borg cubes, Gehry blobs, and a sustainable future where the floor is literally lava. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

In our most serious journalism episode yet, we interview Catarina Ruivo and Cristina Pinho, two organisers from the recently founded Architecture Workers Union in Portugal. Learn with them all the tricks of the trade (union), so you can start one yourself, in the comfort of your own country. SINTARQ website: https://sintarq.pt/ Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

Why are cities ugly instead of beautiful? Why is everything bad instead of good? When did we all lose touch with the simple things? This week we read from Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson, who has been asking all of these questions and more, and explaining to architects how socialism is when every man's house is his castle. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

We've been in Porto covering the founding of SINTARQ, the Architectural Workers Union in Portugal, so no full episode this week. Some things are more important than podcasts :) But we do have a quick interview from the scene with, two organisers we dragged away from the afterparty for a bit! Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

Trump predicts 2022's hottest new design trend, Prince Charles likes communist architect who likes Nazi architect, and we conclude that the people deserve pre-fab columns. In this episode, we ask what is 'right wing architecture'? Part 2/2 Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

Trump predicts 2022's hottest new design trend, Prince Charles likes communist architect who likes Nazi architect, and we conclude that the people deserve pre-fab columns. In this episode, we ask what is 'right wing architecture'? Part 1/2 Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

In part 2 of this episode, veteran housing professional and activist Lorraine Douglas REACTS to "socially engaged architecture"(tm). And you guys thought we were harsh. Part 2/2 Check out the Housing Charter of the Communist Party of Britain: https://www.communistparty.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HOUSING-A3_.pdf Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

This episode there is a housing crisis in the UK and it turns out to all be capitalism's fault. Join us in this shocking discovery in our first interview episode, with retired union officer, social housing professional, and our dear comrade Lorraine Douglas. Part 1/2 Check out the Housing Charter of the Communist Party of Britain: https://www.communistparty.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HOUSING-A3_.pdf Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

In this episode, we continue laying out the sordid history of architectural education and its on-again, off-again, relationship with practice: from public-sector glory to real-estate servitude, and beyond into the unknown... and unpaid. Part 2/2 Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz Djdice_chicago – A-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

It's been a tough six months but we're back. In this episode, we lay out the sordid history of architectural education and its on-again, off-again, relationship with practice: from public-sector glory to real-estate servitude, and beyond into the unknown... and unpaid. Part 1/2 Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

Venice's new flood barrier is working and the tourists are safe. Climate Change solved everybody! Also we're getting a new 'spatial contract' - it's like the social one except only for architects. In this episode, a bridge is an island, an island is a courtyard, a courtyard is a network, Venice is the world, and words have lost all meaning. The 2020 Venice Biennale is here... or there, since we didn't go. Recorded in June 2021. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

In this episode, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does the avant-garde and it is bad. Welcome to Fully Automated Luxury Neo-Feudalism(tm) everyone! Part 2/2 Recorded in March 2021. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

In this episode, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does the avant-garde and it is bad. Welcome to Fully Automated Luxury Neo-Feudalism(tm) everyone! Part 1/2 Recorded in March 2021. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

What do architects do when they're stuck inside? Turns out, the same stuff they did before, because they have been stuck inside for a couple of decades at least. This episode, we dive into the inner workings of the architects' mind and find ourselves trapped in the bourgeois interior. This episode was recorded in Spring 2020. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

Architecture tries to covid, Schumacher tries to BLM, Boeri coronawashes greenwashing, and everything just keeps being terrible. Welcome to streetsweeper everyone! This episode was recorded in Spring 2020. Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto