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The Super Urban Podcast

Super Urban Lab
Urban Design
Adelaide
Singapore
Kumbh Mela
Sydney
ARM Architecture
Melbourne
Public Housing (HDB)
Office For Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
Sensible Cities Lab
Urban Density
Public Realm
Marion Cultural Centre
Greater Adelaide 30-Year Plan
Fisherman's Bend
Architecture
Kopitiam
Void Deck
Garden City
Land Reclamation

SUP – The Super Urban Podcast is a conversation about cities and how they’re designed; how we imagine them and how we could re-imagine them. Cities are the most complex things ever constructed and they are also our everyday, barely noticed environment. We’re here for a talk about cities from as many perspectives as possible. Each episode will focus on a specific theme, blending diverse viewpoints ... more

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This episode of the Super Urban Podcast explores one of the most pressing questions facing architecture today: what happens to architectural agency when the architect becomes increasingly separated from the institutions and systems that produce citie... more

This episode of the Super Urban Podcast ventures into one of the most expansive propositions in contemporary architectural thinking: that everything is urbanism. Drawing from Winy Maas's 2019 guest editorship of Domus, theconversation explores what i... more

This episode of the Super Urban Podcast turns to the city as a live, legible system — one that can be continuously read, measured, and acted upon in real time. The concept of the 'senseable city', as developed through the work of the MIT Senseable Ci... more

This episode of the Super Urban Podcast centres on the evolving nature of urban practice — from the design of discrete forms toward the orchestration of complex systems. The conversation frames contemporary urbanism as a practice of alignment: betwee... more

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Recent Guests

Finn Williams
Architect, urbanist and public sector design leader; founder of Public Practice
Public Practice; City Architect of Malmö, Sweden
Episode: The Public Architect with Finn Williams
Winy Maas
Architectural thinker and practitioner, co-founder of Mvrdv and founder of The Why Factory
Mvrdv; The Why Factory
Episode: Hyper Cities with Winy Maas
Fabio Duarte
Associate Director of Research and Design at the Sensible Cities Lab, MIT; Principal Research Scientist at MIT
Sensible Cities Lab, MIT
Episode: Senseable Cities with Fabio Duarte
Caroline Bos
Dutch architect, co-founder and principal urban planner of UNS
UNS (formerly UNStudio)
Episode: Global Cities with Caroline Bos
Desirée Grunewald
Designer and illustrator, former design lecturer from Majorca
Independent designer; former lecturer; research on vernacular architecture in Ho Chi Minh City
Episode: Cineurbano
Jésus Mayordomo
Geographer from Madrid
Spanish chamber of commerce; organizes trade missions
Episode: Cineurbano
Vaishnavi Laddha
Urban designer, Junior Urban Designer in the Urban Design Planning Team at Dewan Architects and Engineers in Dubai
Dewan Architects and Engineers
Episode: Kumbh Mela with Vaishnavi Laddha
Tat Haur Lee
Architect, researcher, principal architect of TAD Architects and PhD candidate at SUTD
TAD Architects; Singapore University of Technology and Design
Episode: Singapore with Tat Haur Lee
David Gianotten
Partner at Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
OMA
Episode: Global Cities with David Gianotten

Hosts

Ian Nazareth
Host of SUP – The Super Urban Podcast; engaged in urban design discourse and city-making
Graham Crist
Co-host focused on urban design dialogue and collaboration with guests
Christine Phillips
Co-host contributing design and urbanism perspectives

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#126
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#63
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Hyper Cities with Winy Maas
Q: What is biotopia and how realistic is it as a future city vision?
Biotopia is a future condition where buildings are living, adaptive systems that host biodiversity and integrate ecological processes; while ambitious, it's framed as a research-driven trajectory that guides design thinking and project strategies rather than a quick, universal blueprint.
Hyper Cities with Winy Maas
Q: How do you see the role of the architect changing if everything is urbanism?
The architect shifts from designing singular buildings to coordinating distributed systems that extend across climate, biology, data, and infrastructure, effectively becoming a facilitator of complex urban ecologies.
Senseable Cities with Fabio Duarte
Q: What is your stance on branding cities as Smart City vs Sensible City, and how does that influence outcomes?
Labeling matters; Sensible City emphasizes sensing with human and technological inputs and avoids over-reliance on top-down optimization, aiming to preserve serendipity and human-centric outcomes while enabling intelligent infrastructure.
Senseable Cities with Fabio Duarte
Q: What does it mean to inhabit a city that is constantly sensing itself, and how does that affect design and policy?
It means moving from static representations to ongoing, real-time understanding where design must accommodate continuous observation, interpretation, and adjustment, while policy should support flexible, science-informed decision-making without expecting the lab to do all planning.
Cities as Provocation with Paul van Herk
Q: How do you see your work operating within the contemporary city as an antidote to traditional planning?
By treating urban design as a media practice that not only visualizes a city but also provocatively challenges dominant planning narratives, opening space for critique, dialogue, and alternative futures.

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A thoughtful collection of conversations about how cities are imagined, designed, and governed, with a strong emphasis on systems thinking in urbanism. Episodes commonly explore how policy, governance, data, and spatial design intersect to shape everyday urban life—from public-sector leadership and upstream city-building to global practice, dense housing, and the social implications of large-scale interventions. Guests range from architects and urban designers to researchers and city-makers, offering both practical case studies and speculative visions that challenge conventional practice. The show often foregrounds public realm, infrastructure, and community well-being, and it frequently pairs technical insight with cultural and political c... more

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