Poetry and Architecture: Collaborative Poem

We are excited to share with you a recording of a poem created as part of a collaborative project between architecture scholars.

You can find more details about this special project in Magma 95, Architecture

 

 

 

 

 

Audio Recording

“Home before Home”
Poem sequence, written and read by (in order of reading):
Jilly Traganou
Parwana Amiri
Anat Messing
Marija Maric
Irit Katz
Emma Cheatle
Kitya Mark
Olga Touloumi
Nora Wendl

“Home before Home”

 

Poetry workshops 
The poem was written as part of a workshop series lead by Magma editors Leo Boix and Stav Poleg, encouraging architecture scholars to experiment in collaborative poetry writing.

Poetic Spatial Writing
The conference and workshops were organized by Irit Katz, Jilly Traganou and Anat Messing. Participants were Parwana Amiri, Edwina Attlee, Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk, Irit Katz, Marija Marić, Kitya Mark, Mpho Matsipa, Anat Messing, Olga Touloumi, Jilly Traganou, and Nora Wendl .

The organisers wish to thank the Cambridge Humanities Research Grants, the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, and The New School for funding the Poetic Spatial Writing project, and Christ’s College for hosting the spring 2025 workshop. They also thank their assistant, New School PhD student Radhya Kareem.

Read the poem in full, and find more details about this special project in Magma 95, Architecture

 

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