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107 _ Jeffrey Nesbit / Charles Waldheim_'Technical Lands'

Night White Skies - April 16, 2024 14:27 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Today’s conversation is with Jeffrey Nesbit and Charles Waldheim about their book Technical Lands.  It was great to have both Jeffrey and Charles back on the program. They’ve both been on here separately but today we’re discussing their new edited book ‘Technical Lands: A Critical Primer’. As...

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106 _ Catherine Ingraham _ 'Architecture's Theory'

Night White Skies - March 12, 2024 12:25 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Today’s conversation is with Catherine Ingraham and we're discussing her latest book, ‘Architecture’s Theory’.   We each had our own experience in school when first introduced to architectural theory. Those classes were probably somewhat opaque for all of us. Even today you might read new ar...

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105 _ Christopher Schaberg _ 'Adventure'

Night White Skies - January 30, 2024 14:13 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Sometimes it’s only through repetition and time that insight into your actions are revealed. This might come about because aspects of those actions aren’t always fully intentional. When it comes to Night White Skies, I firmly believe to be routed in architecture, but I’ve heard it described b...

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104 _ Vahid Vahdat and James Kerestes _ ‘Cinematic Betwixt’

Night White Skies - November 20, 2023 01:01 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Today’s conversation is with Vahid Vahdat and James Kerestes about their book ‘Architecture, Film and the In-Between, Spatio Cinematic Betwixt’.  Discussions about trying to give shape to an uncertain future have been a recurring topic on this program. This is in part because it seems that e...

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103 _ Aleksandra Jaeschke _ ‘Greening Codes’

Night White Skies - October 16, 2023 00:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Today’s conversation is with Aleksandra Jaeschke about her book ‘The Greening of America’s Building Codes, Promises and Paradoxes’.  There are realities we live with that are so ingrained in all aspects of our lives that we rarely think to question their origins. They are either intertwined ...

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102 _ Dr Laura Ferrarello _ 'Design Ethics'

Night White Skies - September 11, 2023 08:41 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Today's conversation is about the role of teaching and discussing ethics during the design process.  This week's conversation is about the role of ethics during the design process. For many people, whether working in an office or academia, ethics is likely just a passing topic discussed once a...

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101 _ Jeffrey S. Nesbit _ ‘Nature of Enclosure’

Night White Skies - August 21, 2023 00:01 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Today’s conversation is with Jeffrey Nesbit about his book ‘Nature of Enclosure’.  So much of our architectural education and practice is reliant on the idea of control. Take representation for example. Without being able to quantify information about a site, materials or even people, how can...

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100 _ Fred Scharmen _ 'Space Forces'

Night White Skies - August 06, 2023 17:44 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Today’s conversation is with Fred Sharmen about his book ‘Space Forces’.  Sometimes what you need is a little distance to get a clearer perspective on your current situation. Doing so lets you see a larger whole which often allows you to ask questions that might otherwise go unasked. This new...

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099 _ Tools for Stories w/ Sava Zivkovic

Night White Skies - July 25, 2023 13:24 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Today’s conversation is about the potential impact of new tools for video games on architecture.    As architects, we have no shortage of external pressures we need to be aware of and engage. From climate change to new forms of communication technologies and social justice to name only thr...

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098 _ Parson & Charlesworth _ 'Catalog for the Post-Human'

Night White Skies - July 01, 2023 16:20 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
This week’s conversation is with Jessica Charlesworth and Tim Parsons and we are talking about their design work which explores some of the key social, ecological, and technological challenges of our time. Parsons & Charlesworth is an art and design studio that develops tangible worlds as disc...

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097 _ Michael Jakob _ 'Faux Mountains'

Night White Skies - June 19, 2023 08:37 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Today is a conversation with Michael Jakob and we’re talking about his writing on Faux Mountains. These are the mounds, piles, and hills that are linked not only to architecture and landscape architecture but Land Art, Urban Design and beyond. With such a long history, this shape has been a con...

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096 _ Brain Fagan _ 'Resilience'

Night White Skies - June 05, 2023 13:01 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Brain Fagan is one of the world's leading archaeological writers and an internationally recognized authority on world prehistory. He is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of several widely read books on ancient climat...

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095 _ Amy Brady _ 'The World as We Knew It'

Night White Skies - May 22, 2023 00:01 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Amy Brady is the author of Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks–a Cool History of a Hot Commodity. She is also the executive director of Orion magazine, a contributing editor for Scientific American, and coeditor of The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate. Brady has made ...

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094 _ Sheila Jasanoff _ ‘Ethics of Invention’

Night White Skies - March 01, 2022 09:50 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Today is a conversation with Sheila Jasanoff about her book ‘The Ethics of Invention’ and her research and work as the Director of the STS (Science and Technology Studies) at Harvard.  *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies ar...

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093 _ Adam Frank _’Alien Anthropocenes’

Night White Skies - January 24, 2022 01:01 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
My conversation this week is with Astrophysicist Adam Frank is a leading expert on the final stages of evolution for stars like the sun, and his computational research group at the University of Rochester has developed advanced supercomputer tools for studying how stars form and how they die. To...

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092 _ Chris Forman and Claire Asher _ 'Brave Green World'

Night White Skies - December 27, 2021 01:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Chris Forman is a physicist with a PhD in protein engineering, conducting research at Northwestern University into the organization of soft matter using experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches. Claire Asher is a biologist with a PhD in evolution and genetics, specializing in the ...

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091 _ Henry T. Greely _ ‘CRISPR People’

Night White Skies - December 06, 2021 01:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Henry Greely is Professor of Law at Stanford University and Professor by courtesy of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine; Director, Center for Law and the Biosciences; Director, Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society; and Chair, Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics. *...

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091 _ Henry T. Greely _ ‘CRISPR People’

Night White Skies - December 06, 2021 01:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Henry Greely is Professor of Law at Stanford University and Professor by courtesy of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine; Director, Center for Law and the Biosciences; Director, Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society; and Chair, Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics. *...

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090 _ Emanuele Coccia _ ‘The Life of Plants’

Night White Skies - November 25, 2021 18:51 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Emanuele Coccia is an Associate Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He received his PhD in Florence and was formerly an Assistant Professor of History of Philosophy in Freiburg, Germany. He worked on the history of European normativity and on aesthetic...

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089 _ Sherryl Vint _ ’Science Fiction’

Night White Skies - November 08, 2021 01:01 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Today is a conversation about science fiction with Sherryl Vint. Sherryl is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where she directs the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program. *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futu...

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088 _ Boris_Magrini _ 'Radical Gaming'

Night White Skies - October 25, 2021 00:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
This week is a conversation with curator Boris Magrini about the 'Radical Gaming' exhibition currently at the House of Electronic Arts (HEK) in Basel Switzerland. *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for desig...

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087 _ Margret Grebowicz _ 'Origin Stories'

Night White Skies - October 11, 2021 00:01 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Margret Grebowicz is an environmental philosopher living in upstate New York. She is the author of four books--Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. the End of the World, Whale Song, The National Park to Come, Why Internet Porn Matters--and is currently finishing a new short book, Rescue Me: On Dog...

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086 _ Daniel Barber _ ’Climate Histories’

Night White Skies - September 27, 2021 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Daniel A. Barber is Associate Professor and Chair of the PhD Program in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching narrate eco-critical histories of architecture and seek pathways into the post-hydrocarbon future. We discuss on this episode his most recent book '...

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085 _ Jackie Higgins _’Sentient’

Night White Skies - September 20, 2021 00:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
This week is a conversation with Jackie Higgins. Jackie is a television documentary director and writer, who read zoology at Oxford University, as a student of Richard Dawkins. She made wildlife films for a decade, for BBC as well as for Channel 4, National Geographic and The Discovery Channel...

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084 _ Aubrey Anable _ 'Rehearsing Our Feelings'

Night White Skies - April 26, 2021 00:01 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
'Rehearsing our Feelings'   When it comes to trying to plan for the future, various tools are used to help us with the process. If you have a series of appointments to attend in the coming months, you'll likely use a calendar to schedule time and place. If you plan on building a structure or ...

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Ep. _084 _ Aubrey Anable _ 'Rehearsing Our Feelings'

Night White Skies - April 26, 2021 00:01 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
'Rehearsing our Feelings'   When it comes to trying to plan for the future, various tools are used to help us with the process. If you have a series of appointments to attend in the coming months, you'll likely use a calendar to schedule time and place. If you plan on building a structure or ...

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Ep. 083 _ Robert Markley_ 'Kim Stanley Robinson;

Night White Skies - April 12, 2021 00:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
There is probably no bigger name in science fiction in the last 50 years than Kim Stanley Robinson. Robert Markley (who I’m speaking with today) wrote a book with that very title, 'Kim Stanley Robinson' that looks at his work. The book looks at the works including the alternate histories of Th...

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Ep._082 _ Stewart Hicks / Allison Newmeyer _'Character'

Night White Skies - March 29, 2021 00:02 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
What does it mean for architecture to have character? Stewart and Allison are co-founders of Design With Company, who's work is interested in concepts that are shared between architecture and literature, including: narrative fictions, type, and character. The work has earned awards such as the ...

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Ep. 081 _ Elena Manferdini _'Material Forms'

Night White Skies - March 15, 2021 00:01 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Elena Manferdini, principal of Atelier Manferdini. She currently teaches at the Southern California Institute of Architecture SCI-Arc where she serves as the Graduate Programs Chair.

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6. Matthew Wimberley

Growing In Mind - January 01, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Matthew Wimberley is rooted in the southern Appalachians of rural North Carolina. His first book of poems, “All the Great Territories”, explores the grieving process following his father’s death. His work has been published in Best New Poets, Missouri Review, Orion, diode, Pleiades, and others. ...

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