Shira de Bourbon Parme: Anthropology and integrated urban development
About this episode
In Episode 22 of A is for Architecture, I speak with architect, urban designer and anthropologist, Shira de Bourbon Parme, co-founder of ForeGrounds and member of the London Collective. Shira's background is as an architect, but through doctoral research in social anthropology, now works alongside developers, planners and architects to guide them in the production of sustainable urban spaces that are rooted in a close and sensitive reading of the social and material nature of places.
I was introduced to Shira through another member of the London Collective, Bee Farrell, a food anthropologist, with whom I work. Shira holds a doctorate from the Future of Cities programme at the University of Oxford, for a thesis entitled How do master planners think? A sociomaterial inquiry (2018).
Enjoy!
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Music credits: Bruno Gillick.
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Apple: podcasts.apple.com
Spotify: open.spotify.com
Google: podcasts.google.com
Get every episode summarized
Each time A is for Architecture Podcast publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
Hosts & guests
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from A is for Architecture Podcast
Tim Altenhof: Atmospheres and architecture.
A is for Architecture Podcast
Ed Wall: Architecture & war.
A is for Architecture Podcast
Andreas Lechner: Forms and typologies.
A is for Architecture Podcast
Lee Ivett: Blueprint for a new architecture.
A is for Architecture Podcast