{"podcast":{"title":"Design Emergency","slug":"design-emergency-5826807","podcast_index_feed_id":5826807,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6376036839b22e00111c4121","website_url":"https://www.instagram.com/design.emergency/?hl=en","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1668678490381-f05c1a3801c41a2e85f471d90025b9ca.jpeg","author":"Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli","episode_count":56,"summary":"Welcome to Design Emergency, where the design curator Paola Antonelli and design critic Alice Rawsthorn will introduce you to the inspiring and ingenious designers whose success in tackling major challenges – from the climate emergency and refugee crisis, to ensuring that new technologies affect us positively, not negatively – gives us hope for the future. Follow our Instagram @design.emergency to see images of all the design projects described in each episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-09T10:23:52.162107+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807"},"episode":{"title":"Francis Kéré on Building Stories","slug":"francis-k-r-on-building-stories","published_at":"2026-06-16T23:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807/francis-k-r-on-building-stories","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807","url":"https://shows.acast.com/design-emergency/episodes/6a317f1360728bbcdafa19e0","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6376036839b22e00111c4121/e/6a317f1360728bbcdafa19e0/media.mp3","summary":"Francis Kéré, architect, educator, builder, and one of the most compelling advocates for architecture as a force for dignity, participation, and social transformation. Kéré’s architecture begins with people and for a building to exist, it has to traverse a process of listening, learning, and designing and fabricating together with the public it is meant for. Born in Gando, Burkina Faso, and based in Berlin, Kéré first came to international attention through a school he designed for his home village while still a student, in 2001. Built with local materials and the participation of the community, the project demonstrated that architecture could be elegant, climate-responsive, and socially transformative. Since then, his work has expanded from schools and clinics to national assemblies, memorials, museums, and cultural institutions around the world. In 2022, he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest honor in his field. In this conversation with Paola Antonelli, Kéré reflects on his new book,  Building Stories , which foregrounds sketches, conversations, memories, and acts of collective making rather than finished masterpieces. Together, they discuss participation, local knowledge, democracy, and architecture's capacity to create dignity, agency, and belonging. You can find images related to this interview on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Francis Kéré, architect, educator, builder, and one of the most compelling advocates for architecture as a force for dignity, participation, and social tr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1974,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/design-emergency-5826807/episodes/francis-k-r-on-building-stories/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807/francis-k-r-on-building-stories.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}