WHAT IF?

rAADio season 04
rAADio is a collective inquiry by the Advanced Architectural Design cohort at Columbia GSAPP. Formed through a convergence of diverse backgrounds and perspectives, we examine the shifting and intersecting entanglements that define architecture today. Our work asks how architecture can move beyond its conventional boundaries—toward the spaces between assemblages, relations, bodies, and technologies—where translation becomes not a question of scale, but of interaction, mediation, and coexistence.

In season 4 of rAADio, we start with the question WHAT IF? We delve into narratives, challenge historical legacies, amplify marginalized voices, explore imaginative methodologies, and reimagine our realities with a critical lens. We talk about speculation and how it can become a tool to create alternative realities grounded in truth, while also questioning the very nature of the truth.

Season 4 of rAADio is produced and directed by: Hadass Rozental, Vaishnavi Chandra Kumar, Ammar Rassai, Harshini Ashok & Manfei Shi

S04 E04 : Queer Time
The episode of rAADio, titled Queer Time, unfolds as an intimate and critical dialogue, exploring how time, history, and belief intersect in contested geographies. This episode dissects how political power, religion, and collective memory shape territorial claims and public sentiment. 

Guest Narrator: Danyel D. Hueyopan
Collaborators: Danyel D. Hueyopan, Weon Wills
Director and Creative Producer, Sound Design, Editing: Max Lauter
Sound Designer & Composer, Lead Audio Engineer: Alex Hamadey
Recording Audio Engineer: Camila Agosto

References
Miriam Abraham Hillawi and Nasra Abdullahi: The Horn of Africa. Fracturing Timelines (The Funambulist) 
        https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/they-have-clocks-we-have-time/the-horn-of-africa-fracturing-timelines 

The Ayodhya Conflict:
Timeline of Babri Masjid/Ayodhya Dispute
       https://www.scobserver.in/journal/timeline-key-events-in-the-babri-masjid-ram-mandir-controversy/
Inaugration of the new tample
       https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/23/india/photos-ayodhya-ram-mandir-temple-inauguration-intl-hnk/index.html
A non conservative opinion about the case
       https://thewire.in/religion/diaspora-groups-ram-temple-consecration-precedent
Official Instagram for the temple
       https://www.instagram.com/shriramteerthkshetra/?hl=en

On Positionalities:
Ronaldo Vázquez: Vistas of Modernity — decolonial aesthesis and the end of the contemporary (Amsterdam: Mon- driaan Fund, 2020).
       https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/en/activities/essays/vistas-of-modernity-decolonial-aesthesis-and-the-end-of-the-contemporary/