Internal Architecture
SYSTEMIC ISSUES ARE STRUCTURAL - HERE'S YOUR SLEDGEHAMMER
A podcast for designers and architecturally curious humans who want to identify the invisible structures in their daily lives.
What would you need to hear to be convinced that architecture is more than the buildings we see around us? What would it take for us as humans to confront and redesign the structure of our very own perspectives, beliefs, and conditioning as a means to creating and voicing systemic change. In this podcast we will see that our work is not only in the details of drawing, but in the details of our everyday life and the potential of a great conversation.
Welcome to Internal Architecture - Class is in session but instead of walking into a stale room with rows of desks it’s a virtual space filled with inspiring and radical conversations all in the comfort of your own home. Get ready to learn, listen, and question "How the f*ck is this related to architecture?"
Warm squeezes and happy listening,
Professionally of course ;)
- Cassie
MEET YOUR HOST
Cassandra Brown holds her master’s in architecture alongside a decade of play in intrapersonal and interpersonal communication spaces. She is eager to grow and connect with others who hold inspiring visions for this field. Humanizing the process of systemic change through conversations that bridge our dreams and where we are at now.
Internal Architecture
STRUCTURE OF AN ANIMIST | DÃMASA GERMAINE PERRY
Take a hike to Grotto Falls with Dãmasa Germaine Perry as she shares her life's work as an animist. Through powerful storytelling, we traverse her recent rights of passage initiations in Gabon, Africa. Diving into the world of energetics, ancestors, and right relationship to the world around us, which includes being in devotion and in ritual with our everyday life. As she likes to say - Enter with respect.
This episode is a long form recording of our hike—almost two hours that honors storytelling over information dumping. Listen as it calls to you.
Meet our guest:
Dãmasa is an animist, ancestral guide, and embodied intimacy facilitator whose work centers African and Indigenous practices as a pathway to profound remembrance and power. Rooted in West and Central African lineages, she is an initiate of Dagbon, Dagara, Ndjembe, and Bwiti traditions. Through ritual, intuitive somatic touch, and energetic attunement, she supports individuals in restoring their connection to mind, body, and the natural and unseen worlds. Dãma’s practice is dedicated to decolonization fostering right relationship with spirit and the land, moving away from individualism in service of community and global Indigenous liberation.
Click here for her instagram @damasoul_sacred
Linktree DãmaSoul Sacred
Chapters
Content Warning: This episode includes brief language surrounding sexual violence at 36:14.
00:00 - PART 1: Introduction to Animism & Ancestral Work
10:16 - PART 2: The Journey to Initiation in Gabon
28:30 - PART 3: Power, Oppression & Decolonization
59:30 - PART 4: Right Relationship, Nature, Community
1:18:45 - PART 5: The Bridge, The Liminal, Women's Wisdom & Closing