with Jack DiGeronimo
and Brooke Telfer
and Hashim Al-Faraj
and Matheus Caldiera
and Khaled Al-Barghouthi
and friends
with Jack DiGeronimo
and Brooke Telfer
and Hashim Al-Faraj
and Matheus Caldiera
and Khaled Al-Barghouthi
and friends
Urban Fabric is a podcast, but also a situated public practice that unfolds directly within the city. Recorded on site in architecturally and urbanistically significant locations, it treats the urban environment as both subject and medium. Through a combination of structured discussion and spontaneous engagement with passersby, the podcast connects architecture, planning, and everyday life, translating disciplinary discourse into accessible conversation. By insisting on presence, openness, and participation, Urban Fabric reframes the city as a shared, evolving fabric shaped by people, place, and continual occupation.
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Uban Fabric is a site-situated podcast embedded directly within the city of Boston, where architecture and urbanism are discussed from inside the environments that produce them. Each episode is shaped by its physical context, it’s streets, buildings, and infrastructure, treating the city not as backdrop, but as an active participant in the conversation.
Urban Fabric is about places, understood not as fixed objects but as contingent conditions shaped by use, memory, and circumstance. The podcast situates itself within specific sites, ordinary and exceptional alike, to examine how spatial form, social activity, and temporal layering converge, revealing place as something continuously produced through occupation, interpretation, and everyday encounter.
Urban Fabric is about architecture, not as an isolated discipline but as a lived and negotiated condition. Buildings, infrastructures, and public spaces are discussed in relation to use, memory, politics, and time, emphasizing how design intentions collide with and are reshaped by everyday life.
Urban Fabric is about having fun, approaching architecture and urbanism with curiosity, openness, and humor. While grounded in serious questions, the podcast resists academic detachment, inviting play, spontaneity, and enjoyment as legitimate and productive modes of engaging the city.
Urban Fabric is a commitment to presence in the city, asserting that discussions of architecture and urbanism should occur where their consequences are felt. By embedding discourse within everyday urban life, the podcast treats the city as a living, evolving fabric shaped by people, place, and the continuous act of occupation.
Urban Fabric is a platform for bridging the gap between architects and the public by situating design conversations in shared civic space. Through structured discussion and spontaneous dialogue with passersby, the podcast translates architectural ideas into accessible terms, affirming that everyone who inhabits the city already participates in its design.
Urban Fabric is about people, treating residents, passersby, and listeners as active participants in the city rather than passive users of it. The podcast foregrounds lived experience, informal knowledge, and everyday perception, recognizing that urban space is continually authored through movement, conversation, and occupation.
Urban Fabric is a form of urban fieldwork that merges architectural critique, ethnography, and public conversation. Rather than speaking about cities from a distance, the hosts engage them directly, allowing social interaction, environmental conditions, and spatial realities to inform how architecture is understood, questioned, and collectively interpreted.
Urban Fabric is an exploration of architecture, urban planning, and public life conducted in real time and in real places. By recording within architecturally and urbanistically significant sites, the podcast foregrounds presence, atmosphere, and lived conditions, allowing sound, movement, and chance encounters to shape discourse as much as theory or expertise.