In conversation with James O’Leary, we discuss the work of Kreider + O’Leary, and together explore the transgression of boundaries, resistance, and the importance of facilitating the capacity to imagine. At the same time, this is a conversation between Nicosia and Belfast, a parallel look at two fragmented cities and their ways of moving beyond division.
Kreider + O’Leary’s practice could perhaps be seen as a conversation and entanglement between the spatial and the poetic. Through this approach, they offer new ways of seeing, navigating, and acting in ‘ungovernable’ contexts. Going against established patterns and ways of thinking, requires shifting the perspectives of how we, as researchers or practitioners, approach, see, and connect to spaces; it requires an upturning of the established; a fertilisation of the communities’ capacities to imagine; it requires to continuously “risk the envisioning of new spaces, new configurations, new dreams”.
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As part of the ‘Confronting Radical Imagination’ conversation series, hosted, written, researched, and edited by Lara Scharf. The conversation series is part of the Radical Spatial Futures project, funded by the ESRC, supervised by Prof Doina Petrescu and Dr Tanzil Shafique, at the School of Architecture of the University of Sheffield.
To follow the RSF project, check ⁠⁠radicalspatialfutures.com⁠⁠, or on ⁠⁠instagram⁠⁠.
Special thanks to James for joining the conversation. Follow Kreider + O’Leary’s work on their⁠⁠ website⁠⁠ and x.
Music: Fairytales by Danijel Zambo

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