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 BBC as well as for Channel 4, National Geographic and The Discovery Channel. She then joined the BBC's science department, researching and writing, directing and producing programs such as Tomorrow’s World and Horizon. Today we’re talking about her book ‘Sentient’.  &nbsp; &nbsp;  Music samples used.  Richard Devine, 'Etch n Sketch'&nbsp;  Cinematic Laboratory, 'Eurotrack Starter Kits ep. 01

085 _ Jackie Higgins _’Sentient’

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 post-hydrocarbon future. We discuss on this episode his most recent book 'Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (Princeton UP, 2020)

086 _ Daniel Barber _ ’Climate Histories’

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 Porn Matters--and is currently finishing a new short book, Rescue Me: On Dog Abundance and Social Scarcity. *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.    Thanks to  for sample permission.

087 _ Margret Grebowicz _ 'Origin Stories'

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 futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.    Thanks to  for the use of several sample permission.

088 _ Boris_Magrini _ 'Radical Gaming'

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 Science program. *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.    Thanks to  for the use of several sample permission.

089 _ Sherryl Vint _ ’Science Fiction’

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, Germany. He worked on the history of European normativity and on aesthetics. *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.    Thanks to  for sample permission.

090 _ Emanuele Coccia _ ‘The Life of Plants’

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 Society; and Chair, Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics. *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.    Thanks to  for sample permission.

091 _ Henry T. Greely _ ‘CRISPR People’

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 Asher is a biologist with a PhD in evolution and genetics, specializing in the behavior of ants. A widely published science writer, she has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Bloomsbury Theatre and appeared on BBC 4 and BBC Radio 4. *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.    Thanks to  for sample permission.

092 _ Chris Forman and Claire Asher _ 'Brave Green World'

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 advanced supercomputer tools for studying how stars form and how they die. Today we’re discussing his book, ‘Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth’.&nbsp; *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.   Thanks to  for sample permission.

093 _ Adam Frank _’Alien Anthropocenes’

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.&nbsp; *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.  &nbsp;

094 _ Sheila Jasanoff _ ‘Ethics of Invention’

Sean Lally’s work is a synthesis of two intense pressures on society today: humanity’s manipulation of the en­vironment and the bio engineering of the human body. The first is changing the makeup of the physical spaces we occupy and the second, the very body that perceives that space. Lally’s work with Weathers are experiments that report on potential futures ahead, ones that do not fall along the false dichotomy presented in the media that earth can only be preserved or destroyed. The work instead embraces the belief that for humanity to live sus­tainably and responsibly, earth’s environments, as well as the human body, will just have to artificially evolve together. Lally’s work speculates on the shapes and aesthetics of space including the social and political dynamics that will emerge when both the design of the environment and the human body are recognized as necessarily elastic for humanity to move forward.

 Lally received his Bachelors degree in Landscape Architecture from UMASS Amherst, his Masters in Architecture from UCLA and is a tenured associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the School of Architecture. Lally is the author of the The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come and recipient of the Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in Landscape Architecture.

094 _ Sheila Jasanoff _ ‘Ethics of Invention’

Night White Skies w/ Sean Lally

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