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
Ep. 077 _ Holly Jean Buck _ 'After Geoengineering' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:53
Today is a conversation with Holly Jean Buck and we're discussing her book After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair and Restoration. I think for many of us that like to think we're working in at least the general wh…
Ep. 076 _ James Bradley _ 'Ghost Species' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:13:59
James Bradley is an author and critic. His books include the novels, Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist and Clade, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus and the Penguin Book of the Ocean and of course most recently Gh…
Ep. 075 _ Sylvia Lavin _ 'Postmodernization' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:49
Today is a conversation with Sylvia Lavin and we're discussing her recent book 'Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernization Effects'. Book Sylvia Lavin is Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton…
Ep. 074 _ Natasha Sandmeier _ 'Stranger than Fiction' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:32
Natasha Sandmeier's work and research straddles the worlds of architecture and visualization – with a long-standing interest the role of media within the creation and production of speculative architectures and environme…
Ep. 073 _ Jeffrey Nesbit _ 'Extraterrestrial' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:29
Just yesterday two astronauts launched into outer space from the United States for the first time in 9 years. Interesting side note, this launch was the first time in 40 years that NASA astronauts launched in a new space…
Ep. _072 _ Jane Hutton _'Reciprocal Landscapes' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:32
Jane Hutton is a landscape architect and Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Her research looks at the extended material flows of common construction materials and their social and e…
Ep. 071 _ Larry D. Busbea _'Responsive Environments' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:16
Larry Busbea is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Topologies: The Urban Utopia in France, 1960-1970 (MIT Press, 2007), The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, an…
Ep. 070 _ Fred Scharmen _ 'Space Settlements' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:36
Fred Scharmen teaches architecture and urban design at Morgan State University's School of Architecture and Planning. He is the co-founder of the Working Group on Adaptive Systems, an art and design consultancy based in…
Ep. 069 _ Christopher Schaberg _'Searching for the Anthropocene' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:22
Christopher Schaberg is Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. In addition to his new book Searching for the Anthropocene: A Journey into the Environmental Humanit…
Ep. 068 _ Elisa Iturbe _ 'Carbon Form' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:56
Elisa Iturbe is a critic at the Yale University School of Architecture (YSoA), where she also coordinates the dual-degree program between YSoA and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Her writings have be…