Archive Gossip – the saai Podcast
Archive Gossip takes you on an exploration of one of the largest architecture archives in Germany, the saai in Karlsruhe. As an audio platform, we work in two directions: In the podcast, Archive Gossip brings out the stories that can be discovered in things and told through them as voices from the archive. In oral histories and interviews, we search for and collect the voices that the archive needs for a more inclusive and diverse future but does not yet have in order to supplement our holdings.
The Archive Gossip team meets with staff, researchers and archive experts to delve deep into the boxes and cupboards, rolls and drawers, sketches, photos, index cards and notes at saai. Together, we want to dedicate ourselves to known and forgotten stories and objects and also question the archive as a place of knowledge and an institution.
Idea and realization: Sina Brückner-Amin
Production and assistance: Simon Rieß and Isabel Winter
In the second episode, Mechthild Ebert, research associate at the saai, is our guest. Together with Sina, she talks about her work in and with the estates of the archive in Karlsruhe and the special finds she makes 'in the margins' of these archive materials. This is about forgotten and overlooked stories and protagonists in the archive and, subsequently, the question of the extent to which metadata is actually material - and what can be discovered in it.
The episode is available on SoundCloud.
In the first episode, Sina Brückner-Amin talks to Manuela Gantner, researcher in architectural theory from Karlsruhe. Manuela is currently working on a cooperation project between the Wüstenrot Foundation and the saai archive on the architect Conrad Roland, whose estate is located at saai. Topics include: What architectural visions did Conrad Roland actually have, who is famous today for very different work than he ever intended? What are the special features of his estate? And how does one approach such a comprehensive project productively?
The episode is available on SoundCloud.