Conversation with dancer and choreographer JASMIN SHEPPARD about PREPARING GROUND – a new dance work that invites us to join First Peoples’ care of Land as an urgent act for our shared future.

PREPARING GROUND is a First Nations-led dance work co-directed by pioneering indigenous artist Marilyn Miller, alongside Jasmin Sheppard and Katina Olsen. It dances of the future Future—a world where care for Country and community continues generationally. It reminds us that our survival depends on an enduring relationship with the land, and that the path forward is one we must walk together.

More about this work: https://www.blakdance.org.au/articles/preparing-ground

Also featured on the show, a music from SOUND THE ALARM, a 16-piece ensemble led by double bassist Clayton Thomas, in response to the genocide in Palestine. 

The track was recorded during their live performance at Johnston Street Jazz (June 2024). The music is a composed improvisation, described by Clayton as “a sonic allegory and a simple way to collect human energy in the right place for the right reasons.”

All the proceeds from the album go towards humanitarian aid in Gaza: https://claytonthomas.bandcamp.com


Originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 12 May 2025.

The track featured at the very beginning is by Samuel Pankhurst who is a sound designer on PREPARING GROUND. 

Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come.

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PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

EP73: Jasmin Sheppard (Preparing Ground)

ICT’s Message to Struggling Traders - ICT Motivation/Speech

Why You’re Not Seeing Results - Ict Motivation

Data driven marketing is just like sport for Nikita Kucheryavy - you need to train it, you need to have the right warm-up, and you have to develop good technique to get the most out of it. In this episode, he also shares the benefits of having pursued an international career within Mars Petcare, and tells us why he's picked retail media as a shiny new object.

Episode 295 / Nikita Kucheryavy / Mars Petcare / Digital Activation Head

Is using AI in social media content production and analysis cheating, or is it being smart and adding a human touch to make it authentic? Paola Rosciano, Social Media Manager at Remote, explains why AI in social media marketing is her shiny new object, as long as it's being used right. Find out how she sees AI tools changing the marketing landscape and listen to her top tips for better time management and getting more out of your data.&nbsp;

Episode 297 / Paola Rosciano / Remote / Social Media Manager

Professor Shannon Vallor, Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures and author of "The AI Mirror," explores how her background shaped her approach to research on the ethics of AI. For her, AI is a mirror to society, and she argues that we need to look to humans, not machines, for how to adapt to this emergent technology.

Shannon Vallor: The Ethics of AI

Izrael zaútočil na Írán, trhy reagují propadem. Co to znamená pro investory? Sledujte nový díl Traders Talk s makléřem Matějem Vlčkem, který rozebírá dopady útoku na akcie, komodity i měny.

Traders Talk: Útok na Írán otřásl trhy. Akcie padají, zlato a ropa rostou

Marketing is changing: where we were trying to avoid bot traffic before, we're now increasingly having to optimise for AI and agentic systems instead. But, soon everyone's content will be similar, and it's where the human element will set us free, according to Katherine Freeley, Head of Media at Boehringer Ingelheim. Katherine comes back to the podcast five years since her last appearance, sharing why we should use AI to super charge our human capabilities and reflecting on how marketing has and will continue to change.&nbsp;

Episode 299 / Katherine Freeley / Boehringer Ingelheim / Head of Media

Society has yet to fully grapple with the administrative chaos that has ensued from the growth of the urban. One such city allows tremendous insight into the process of urbanization in the new millennium: Bengaluru. During the past two decades, Bengaluru’s real estate sector and infrastructure investments have exploded in a massive transformation that stimulated rapid urbanization and unbounded growth. The coedited collection of writings Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru explores how people caught up in the whirlwinds of change—construction laborers, street vendors, gig workers—experience, struggle, strive, and speculate to make a livable city for themselves.


Several contributors to this project are gathered here in conversation:


Vinay Gidwani is professor of geography and global studies at the University of Minnesota and author of Capital Interrupted: Agrarian Development and the Politics of Work in India.

Hemangini Gupta is lecturer in gender and global politics and associate director of GENDER.ED at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India and coeditor of Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader.

Kaveri Medappa is a postdoctoral researcher in human geography at the University of Oxford. 

Swathi Shivanand is assistant professor at the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.

Michael Goldman is associate professor of sociology and global studies at the University of Minnesota and author of Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization.



Praise for Chronicles of a Global City:

“A nuanced investigation into the precise nature in which Bengaluru (and the global sphere) has embraced what the authors have dubbed 'speculative urbanism', a capital-led paradigm that has monopolised the imagination over public spaces and city-building.”
—Frontline Magazine



Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru is available from University of Minnesota Press.

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Inspirace pro Vaše investice. Podcasty retailové jedničky mezi brokery Patria Finance, jejíž součástí je respektovaný ekonomický a investiční portál Patria.cz. Zaposlouchejte se do investičních tipů, tržních výhledů, investičního vzdělávání a osvěty nebo rozhovorů se zajímavými osobnosti světa investování i byznysu.

"Futures Conversations" brings you thought-provoking dialogue showcasing the intersections of disciplines, ideas, and possibilities being tackled at the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Futures Institute.

PODCAST-CONVERSATIONS with artists and art theorists, from visual to performing arts, discussing conceptual frameworks and philosophical outlooks. Also some SOUND-COLLAGES, assembled together on variety of themes, such as: sleep, silence, intuition, collaboration, failure, and more. 

Available via iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artemis-projects/id1462300886

PRODUCER & HOST: Ira Ferris (https://www.artemisprojects.com.au/projects-ira-ferris)

'Shiny New Object' is a podcast about the future of marketing. Each episode is a conversation with an insightful and influential leader in the industry about the latest tech, trend or talking point to catch their eye. 

Now brands are wielding incredible power to influence our choices in every corner of our lives. Algorithms control how we stay in touch with our friends, the price we pay for our food, the films we watch and even who we fall in love with.

If a brand can pay; then facebook, google and Amazon can make them play - with the hearts and minds of consumers.

Marketing tech is the most powerful force in commerce today.

The ‘Shiny New Object’ Podcast investigates the latest marketing technology and makes sense of it for brands and their agencies.

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