On February 13th, urban designer Manuel Cook and architect Megan Lutz sat down with Lauren Martin to talk about the evolution of planning processes and their cultural, spatial, and political implications on the role of public artwork in civic life.

Jewel Rodgers is one of Amplify’s 2026 Generator Series project recipients. Her project, All About Love, explores love as an active practice of self-awareness and repair. We sat down with Jewel to talk more about her work and what it means to love within bodies conditioned by histories of survival.

On December 12th, Cady de la Cruz, Keegan Dunn, and Ami Polite sat down with moderator Sara Jacobson for a conversion about how environmental histories, cultural inheritance, and our ties to the land shape creative subjectivities.

On October 12th, Caitlin Cass, Ilaamen Pelshaw, and Ella Weber sat down with Michael Griffin to take a closer look at irony, contradiction and exaggeration as critical strategies in creative practice that subvert dominant narratives and challenge long-held assumptions with a wink and a smile.