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

Night White Skies
Podcast Episodes
087 _ Margret Grebowicz _ 'Origin Stories' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:24
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…
086 _ Daniel Barber _ 'Climate Histories' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:17
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…
085 _ Jackie Higgins _'Sentient' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:04
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 B…
084 _ Aubrey Anable _ 'Rehearsing Our Feelings' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:07
'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 calen…
Ep. 083 _ Robert Markley_ 'Kim Stanley Robinson; [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:09
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…
Ep._082 _ Stewart Hicks / Allison Newmeyer _'Character' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:37
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: narra…
Ep. 081 _ Elena Manferdini _'Material Forms' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:15
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.
Ep. 080 _ Amy Brady _ 'Burning Worlds' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:35
Amy writes about arts, culture, and the environment. She is the Deputy Publisher of Guernica magazine and the Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago Review of Books, where she also writes a monthly column called "Burning Worlds.…
Ep. 079 _ Michael Benedikt _ 'Architecture Beyond Experience' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:33
Michael Benedikt is an ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Hal Box Chair in Urbanism and teaches design studio and architectural theory. He is a graduate…
Ep. 078 _ John May _ 'Signal, Image, Architecture' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:32
This week is a conversation with John May and we're discussing a book he recently wrote called 'Signal, Image, Architecture. It's a short book with an objective to define the playing field today for this discussion. The…