108 _ THE END w/ Thoughts For Tomorrow

108 _ THE END w/ Thoughts For Tomorrow

Author: Sean Lally August 22, 2024 Duration: 16:02

After eight years and over 100 episodes, the Night White Skies podcast is coming to an end. The program began as a look towards architecture's future knowing that both earth's environments and our human bodies are now open for design, and that's where we'll end. 

 

The program sought to engage a diverse range of perspectives for a better picture of the scenarios currently unfolding. Guests included philosophers Timothy Morton, and Emanuelle Coccia, architectural authors such as Catherine Ingraham, Fred Scharmen, Sylvia Lavin, Rachel Armstrong, designers like Neil Denari, Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy, researchers in ethics like Sheila Jasanoff, curators including MOMO's Paola Antonelli, scientists Adam Frank, and Henry T. Greely, as well as science fiction authors James Bradley and Sherryl Vint and many, many more. 

 

A searchable achieve of all episodes is available at www.NightWhiteSkies.com and will remain available for the foreseeable future. 

 

In this final episode, I bring together some reoccurring topics and thoughts over the last eight years of conversations as a means for outlining a course forward, or at the very least, playing out a hunch on work still to be done. 

 

You can find all episodes at www.NightWhiteSkies.com 

Thoughts or suggestions, email me at seanlally@gmail.com 


In a world where the very ground we stand on and the bodies we inhabit are becoming malleable territories for design, Night White Skies offers a necessary space for conversation. Host Sean Lally guides these discussions, which venture far beyond traditional architectural discourse to ask what kind of future we are actually building. This podcast thrives on the friction and insight generated by bringing together an unexpected mix of voices-from philosophers and scientists to policy makers and science fiction authors. You’ll hear how a cultural anthropologist’s research on ritual intersects with a material scientist’s work on smart environments, or how a novelist’s vision of tomorrow clarifies the ethical dilemmas faced by urban planners today. Each episode is a deep, meandering exploration, avoiding easy answers in favor of nuanced, often surprising connections. The aim is to piece together a broader, more complex picture of the transformations currently unfolding around and within us. By engaging with such a diverse range of thinkers, the Night White Skies podcast doesn't just report on change; it actively participates in the difficult, essential work of imagining what comes next.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 108

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097 _ Michael Jakob _ 'Faux Mountains' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:34
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096 _ Brain Fagan _ 'Resilience' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:41
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,…
095 _ Amy Brady _ 'The World as We Knew It' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:03
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 T…
094 _ Sheila Jasanoff _ 'Ethics of Invention' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:59
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 a…
093 _ Adam Frank _'Alien Anthropocenes' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:22
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 a…
092 _ Chris Forman and Claire Asher _ 'Brave Green World' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:59
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 Ash…
091 _ Henry T. Greely _ 'CRISPR People' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:45
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 Soc…
090 _ Emanuele Coccia _ 'The Life of Plants' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:27
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…
089 _ Sherryl Vint _ 'Science Fiction' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:47
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 S…
088 _ Boris_Magrini _ 'Radical Gaming' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:10
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 futur…