GSA Talk: Léopold Lambert- The Funambulist Magazine: Politics of Space and Bodies
Date: Friday, 10 October 2025
Time: 11:30 – 12:30
Venue: LG011, JBS Park
RSVP by 07 Oct using the ink below:
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Léopold Lambert, architect and editor-in-chief of The Funambulist, will speak at the GSA as part of the Black Intellectual Praxes + GSA workshop. All are invited to attend both events or just Léopold’s talk, please RSVP.
In his talk, Lambert will tie his reflections to the broader themes of the day by discussing both the politics of content and the politics of production in The Funambulist. He will examine how publishing can act as a critical tool for understanding the role of architecture in systems of oppression while also envisioning solidarities across various geographies and struggles.
This session directly connects to the event’s emphasis on publishing as praxis, highlighting how both printed and digital material serve as spaces for collective world-making.
Léopold Lambert is a trained architect living in Paris. He is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist, a print and online magazine dedicated to the politics of space and bodies, as well as internationalist solidarities between anticolonial, antiracist, queer, and feminist struggles. He is also the author of four books examining the complicity of architecture with various regimes of oppression. The first one, published in 2012, was entitled Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence. His next book project will follow this trajectory by examining the role of architecture in five various settler colonial contexts (South Africa, Palestine, Algeria, Ireland, and Kanaky).
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