Architecture & Anthropocene, is a podcast produced by Triennale Milano and hosted by journalist David Plaisant.
In this 7-episode podcast David meets with XXII Triennale curator Paola Antonelli, Forensic Architecture founder Eyal Weizman, bio-acoustician Bernie Krause, urban thinker Ricky Burdett, and architects Shigeru Ban, Tatiana Bilbao and Assemble the London based architecture collective. A series of vital conversations expand and extrapolate the themes of the XXII Triennale di Milano titled Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival. Architecture & Anthropocene goes behind the scenes, speaking with the men and women who are shaping the way our world is changing. Through these informal dialogues Triennale Milano is engaging with the most important issues facing the planet today.
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Host: David Plaisant
Produced by Marco Martello and Martina Corbella

Architecture & Anthropocene

Triennale Milano presents its new Public Program of lectures, meetings, projects and events covering topics related to contemporary research, to be held throughout 2020 and curated by Leonardo Caffo, Paola Nicolin and Gianluigi Ricuperati
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“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.”

Design critic and writer Alice Rawsthorn collaborates with Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator of the Triennale Milano’s Enzo Mari retrospective, on Enzo Mari Costellazione: a podcast in which Mari’s friends and collaborators share their memories and observations of the designer.

Architect Stefano Boeri describes him as “a constellation”. Curator Paola Antonelli sees him as “the conscience of Italian design”. While designer Martino Gamper remembers Enzo Mari as having “insulted me in a way that I’ve never been insulted by another designer.” Marva Griffin Wilshire, founder and creator of Salone Satelline, defines him as “an outsider” whilst design duo Formafantasma unfolds the influence Enzo Mari had on their work about the “implication of production” in design processes. As Hans Ulrich Obrist discusses with Alice Rawsthorn: “the exhibition is an exhibition about the many Maris”.

Enzo Mari passed away on October 19, 2020 at the age of 88. The episodes of Enzo Mari Costellazione were recorded in September 2020.

Host and curator: Alice Rawsthorn
Recording and Sound editing: Spiritland Productions
Produced by: Marco Martello and Martina Corbella

Enzo Mari Costellazione

From the Moon the Earth seems to be a serenely beautiful sphere of blues, greens and whirling white clouds. From the Moon is where we can finally step back and look at the state of our planet; from the extinction and destruction being caused by climate change to the interlinked conflict and crises that is affecting our population. This podcast will look at Planet Earth as if we are broadcasting from the Moon, the distance allowing us to make sense of the immense beauty that sometimes coexists, but that can often disappear when faced with such grave challenges.

Bringing together the fields of design, innovation, science, art, philosophy and more besides, the From the Moon podcast tries and unpacks the state of the planet via different, distinct topics that interweave and complement the theme of the 23rd International Exhibition. The conversations broadcastin From the Moon will offer solutions and warnings, and should inspire and critique in equal measure.

Hosted by David Plaisant

From the Moon

Triennale Milano has been working for some time on a series of in-depth analyses of its programmes in podcast form. From the Moon is part of this project and will accompany the public towards the opening of the International Exhibition. The series, which will be in English, consists of seven episodes, in which leading names from the world of culture and science will discuss some of the key issues facing the world today.
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Hosted by David Plaisant

From the Moon - Trailer

With Stefano Boeri, Ersilia Vaudo, Paola Antonelli, Formafantasma, Andrés Jaque, Legacy Russell.
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We take stock of the planet’s environment, both natural and manmade. Can we still talk of an Anthropocene Era? What is the planet’s culture as seen from the Moon? What is culture beyond the pandemic?
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From the Moon the Earth seems to be a serenely beautiful sphere of blues, greens and whirling white clouds. From the moon, is where we can finally step back and look at the state of our planet; from the extinction and destruction being caused by climate change to the interlinked conflict and crises that is effecting our population. This podcast will look at Planet Earth as if we are broadcasting from the Moon, the distance allowing us to make sense of the immense beauty that sometimes coexists, but that can often disappear when faced with such grave challenges.

Seven episodes of From the Moon will try and unpack the state of the planet via different, distinct topics that interweave and complement the XXIII Triennale theme. Bringing together the fields of design, innovation, science, art, philosophy and more besides, conversations broadcast From the Moon will offer solutions and warnings, they should inspire and critique in equal measure.

The 2020 pandemic is of course present in all our consciousness, and rather than addressing this as its own topic or episode it has to be taken as a subtext of the whole podcast series.

Some episodes will have particular resonance when it comes to assessing the impact and consequences of the Covid-19 crisis.

HOSTED BY DAVID PLAISANT
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David Plaisant is a freelance journalist and writer based in Italy. He began his career in London, where he worked in architecture and design advocacy groups and then as a design writer and radio producer for multimedia brand Monocle.
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All the conversations were recorded in November and December 2020

From the Moon – Episode 1 – Blue and green planet

With Andres Jaque, Nico Daswani, Hou Hanru, Anupama Kundoo, Kandis Williams.
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We look at the divisions that run through our societies, from race to wealth. The information age has shone a light on a world that is more divided than ever. Maybe a new culture is the only hope of survival?
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Hosted by David Plaisant
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All the conversations were recorded in November and December 2020

From the Moon – Episode 2 – Divided planet

With Hangama Amiri, Rabih Mroué, Thyago Nogueira, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli.
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From demarcations in the Amazon to data front lines on our smartphones and under the oceans, we look at the visible and invisible frontiers that continue to affect billions of people.
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Hosted by David Plaisant
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All the conversations were recorded in November and December 2020

From the Moon – Episode 3 – Frontiers: visible and invisible

With Ricky Burdett, Angela Rui, Joni Baboci, Hou Hanru.
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From space the planet lights up at night as humankind switches on, emits, consumes, and sleeps. We look at what those lights might tell us, and what the darkness reveals too.
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Hosted by David Plaisant
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All the conversations were recorded in November and December 2020

From the Moon - Episode 4 - The world at night

With Ben Ware, Tom Hughes, Tiago Rodrigues, Anne Laudisoit, Emanuele Coccia, Katie Mack, Marta Boffito. 
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Not as bleak and fatalistic as it may sound, we imagine a utopia or dystopia (depending on how you look at it) : the world without humans, and the very final stages of the universe beyond that. Speaking to two philosophers, a biologist, a theatre director, an ecologist,  an HIV AIDS specialist and more besides; this is the most interdisciplinary and thought-provoking episode yet. 
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Hosted by David Plaisant 
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All the conversations were recorded in November and December 2020

From the Moon – Episode 6 – Farewell humanity!

With Joseph Grima, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Giorgia Lupi, Matthew Claudel. 
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Looking to the future near and distant we ask if there are reasons to be hopeful. Can innovation and the harnessing of human potential give us hope? In an age of activism and renewed social awareness is it even enough to passively talk about hope? 
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Hosted by David Plaisant 
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All the conversations were recorded in November and December 2020

From the Moon – Episode 7 – Hope

Fact vs Fiction sees the host of the podcast, David Plaisant, converse with research-driven design and art studio Nonhuman Nonsense about its project Planetary Personhood. A Universal Declaration of Martian Rights.

From the Moon 2 - Episode 3 - Fact vs Fiction

Mangiare Mangiarotti - Trailer

Chi era Basilico prima di diventare un grande fotografo? La laurea in architettura, la scoperta della fotografia, il Basilico meno conosciuto e più inaspettato, un fotografo itinerante, veloce, una fotografia piena di gente, “abitata”, ironica.

Il mio Gabriele Basilico - Ep.1 - Basilico prima di Basilico

Sei un essere alieno caduto sulla terra che finisce in una mostra di pittura. Che cosa vedi? Tanti rettangoli. Focus sugli artisti Andrea Chiesi, Stanislao Di Giugno, Sofia Silva.

Triennale Milano - Pittura italiana oggi - Ep.1 - Chi comanda dentro i rettangoli

"Pittura italiana oggi" è un podcast, scritto e condotto da Tiziano Scarpa, creato in occasione dell'omonima mostra che racchiude 120 opere di artisti italiani contemporanei.

Triennale Milano - Pittura italiana oggi - Trailer

The exhibition at Triennale Milano 'Gae Aulenti (1927 – 2012)' is accompanied by a podcast series that explores her impact on architecture and design, and her legacy. The podcast, hosted by British design critic and author, Alice Rawsthorn, traces the evolution of Gae Aulenti through the voices of friends, curators and international architects who knew her personally or through her work. The five episodes focus on different aspects of her relationship with architecture, design, art and performance during the course of her career.

Trailer - Gae Aulenti's Legacy

Paola Antonelli on Gae Aulenti and Design

Farshid Moussavi on Gae Aulenti and Architecture

Antonia Jannone on Gae Aulenti and Milan

Ludovico Einaudi on Gae Aulenti and Performance

C'è tutto un mondo intorno. La vita e il mondo di Elio Fiorucci è un podcast, scritto e condotto da Andrea Batilla, creato in occasione della mostra Elio Fiorucci (Triennale Milano, 6 novembre 2024 - 16 marzo 2025), dedicata alla figura dell'imprenditore e cool hunter italiano.

C'è tutto un mondo intorno. La vita e il mondo di Elio Fiorucci - Ep.7 - Eredità

C'è tutto un mondo intorno. La vita e il mondo di Elio Fiorucci - Ep.6 - Successo, fama, celebrities

C'è tutto un mondo intorno. La vita e il mondo di Elio Fiorucci - Ep.5 - Fiorucci nel mondo

C'è tutto un mondo intorno. La vita e il mondo di Elio Fiorucci - Ep.4 - Mondo Fiorucci

C'è tutto un mondo intorno. La vita e il mondo di Elio Fiorucci - Ep.3 - Corso Vittorio Emanuele

C'è tutto un mondo intorno. La vita e il mondo di Elio Fiorucci - Ep.1 - La famiglia

C'è tutto un mondo intorno. La vita e il mondo di Elio Fiorucci - Trailer

C'è tutto un mondo intorno. La vita e il mondo di Elio Fiorucci - Ep.2 - La rivoluzione

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Architecture & Anthropocene, is a podcast produced by Triennale Milano, Italy’s foremost institution for design and contemporary culture, hosted by journalist David Plaisant. This is a discussion on architecture, design, nature and technology in this the age of humans, the so-called anthropocene era. In this 7-episode podcast David meets with design curator Paola Antonelli, Forensic Architecture founder Eyal Weizman, bio-acoustician Bernie Krause, urban thinker Ricky Burdett, and architects Shigeru Ban, Tatiana Bilbao and Assemble, the London based architecture collective.

Architecture & Anthropocene – Trailer – Architecture & Anthropocene

David Plaisant meets with Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator at MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design and Curator of the XXII Triennale di Milano Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival and Glenn D.Lowry, the ‘David Rockefeller Director’ of MoMA, to discuss whether Cultural Institutions are the R&D of today’s society.

Architecture & Anthropocene – Episode 1 – Cultural Institutions: the R&D of society?

David Plaisant meets with Eyal Weizman, British Israeli architect and founder of Forensic Architecture to discuss the inevitable politicization of his work and how we shouldn’t distinguish between the effects of conflict and natural disasters.

Architecture & Anthropocene – Episode 2 – Truth as a practice

David sits down with Bernie Krause, author, bio-acoustician, speaker, natural sound artist, to discuss his life’s work in sound.

Architecture & Anthropocene – Episode 3 – The ears of the world

David Plaisant meets with renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who was awarded the Pritzker prize in 2014 and discuss his approach to architecture.

Architecture & Anthropocene – Episode 4 – Temporary or permanent?

In this episode David Plaisant meets with thinker Ricky Burdett, professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and director of Urban Age project which he founded in 2005. At the end of 2018 Burdett launched “Shaping Cities in an Urban Age” the third in the Urban Age series of publications published by Phaidon.

Architecture & Anthropocene – Episode 5 – The urban age

Valerio Magrelli presenta la lecture "Da una lingua all’altra, da un sapere all’altro. La traduzione come atto poetico fondamentale"
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Valerio Magrelli presents the lecture: "From one language to another, from one kind of knowledge to another. Translation as a crucial poetic act"

Valerio Magrelli

Il filosofo Gianni Vattimo presenta la lecture "1980-2020: il Postmoderno quarant’anni dopo"
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Philosopher Gianni Vattimo presents the lecture: "1980-2020: The Postmodern world forty years later"

Gianni Vattimo

Un ricordo di Alberto Arbasino

Stefano Boeri con Marco De Michelis e Pierluigi Nicolin rendono omaggio al grande architetto

Un ricordo di Vittorio Gregotti

Nobodys Indiscipline is an independent and multidisciplinary platform for the exchange of practices in performing arts that has generated, in recent years, encounters, production of thoughts, exchanges, links, and a moment of breathing sideways to the logic of production.
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Curated and organized by Annamaria Ajmone and Sara Leghissa. With: Annamaria Ajmone, Dyonisis Argyropoulous, Daniela Bershan, Rahel Barra, Deborah Birch, Alice Daneluzzo, Matteo de Blasio, Valentina Desideri, Rita Duina, Veza Maria Fernandez Wenger, Paola Granato, Catalina Insignares, Jacopo Jenna, Sara Leghissa, Sara Manente, Paola Stella Minni, Giulia Pallidini, Sarah Parolin, Livia Andra Piazza, Giulia Polenta, Petra Rocca, Glauco Salvo, Marcela Santander Corvàlan, Valerio Sirna, Stella Succi, Chiara VacircaNOBODYS INDISCIPLINE 2020/ UNTOUCHABLE VERSION is an independent platform produced by SPINA and supported by Triennale Milano Teatro, Ariella Vidach AIEP/DID STUDIO. Hosted and supported in its NESSUNO/nobody's party form by COX18. Nobody's Indiscipline is part of the Nobody's Business project imagined by Eleanor Bauer, Alice Chauchat and Ellen Söderhult.

Nobody's Business

Il filosofo Giulio Giorello e il regista Alessandro Serra in dialogo con Valeria Cantoni in occasione dello spettacolo del 2018 "Macbettu"

Giulio Giorello e Alessandro Serra in dialogo con Valeria Cantoni

“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.”

Stefano Boeri, President of Triennale Milano, remembers his long-term friendship with Enzo Mari in conversation with Alice Rawsthorn and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Enzo Mari Costellazione – Episode 6 – Stefano Boeri and Hans Ulrich Obrist

“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.”

Design duo Formafantasma explains the influence Enzo Mari had on their ongoing research about the “implication of production” in design processes.

Enzo Mari Costellazione – Episode 4 – Formafantasma

“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.”

Design curator Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn discuss Mari’s influence on today’s understanding of design: from his project of the Milanese Panettoni to the masterpiece Proposta per un’Autoprogettazione.

Enzo Mari Costellazione – Episode 3 – Paola Antonelli

“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.”

Series host Alice Rawsthorn sits down with London-based designer Martino Gamper, who remembers his uncompromising master Enzo Mari.

Enzo Mari Costellazione – Episode 2 – Martino Gamper

“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.”

Series host Alice Rawsthorn sits down with the curator of the Enzo Mari retrospective at Triennale Milano to discuss how he approaches an exhibition about “the many faces of Mari”.

Enzo Mari Costellazione – Episode 1 – Hans Ulrich Obrist

“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.”

Design critic and writer Alice Rawsthorn collaborates with Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator of the Triennale Milano’s Enzo Mari retrospective, on Enzo Mari Costellazione: a podcast in which Mari’s friends and collaborators share their memories and observations of the designer.

Architect Stefano Boeri describes him as “a constellation”. Curator Paola Antonelli sees him as “the conscience of Italian design”. While designer Martino Gamper remembers Enzo Mari as having “insulted me in a way that I’ve never been insulted by another designer.” Marva Griffin Wilshire, founder and creator of Salone Satelline, defines him as “an outsider” whilst design duo Formafantasma unfolds the influence Enzo Mari had on their work about the “implication of production” in design processes. As Hans Ulrich Obrist discusses with Alice Rawsthorn: “the exhibition is an exhibition about the many Maris”.

Enzo Mari Costellazione is brought to you by Triennale Milano
Host: Alice Rawsthorn
Sound editing and recording: Spiritland Productions
Produced by Marco Martello and Martina Corbella

Enzo Mari Costellazione – Trailer

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