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095 _ Amy Brady _ 'The World as We Knew It'

Night White Skies

Release Date: 05/22/2023

108 _ THE END w/ Thoughts For Tomorrow show art 108 _ THE END w/ Thoughts For Tomorrow

Night White Skies

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...

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107 _ Jeffrey Nesbit / Charles Waldheim_'Technical Lands' show art 107 _ Jeffrey Nesbit / Charles Waldheim_'Technical Lands'

Night White Skies

Today’s conversation is with Jeffrey Nesbit and Charles Waldheim about their book Technical Lands.  It was great to have both Jeffrey and Charles back on the program. They’ve both been on here separately but today we’re discussing their new edited book ‘Technical Lands: A Critical Primer’. As they state in the book, designating land as technical is a political act and doing so entails dividing, marginalizing, and rendering portions of the Earth inaccessible. This is land that is often invisible and remote. The range of contributing authors includes architectural...

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106 _ Catherine Ingraham _ 'Architecture's Theory' show art 106 _ Catherine Ingraham _ 'Architecture's Theory'

Night White Skies

Today’s conversation is with Catherine Ingraham and we're discussing her latest book, ‘Architecture’s Theory’.   We each had our own experience in school when first introduced to architectural theory. Those classes were probably somewhat opaque for all of us. Even today you might read new articles and books related to theory and find yourself trying to hold onto ideas like dry sand in your hands. Over time, I’ve come to recognize that important concepts are often intrinsically unstable. Unlike the rest of your education up to that point which placed value on...

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105 _ Christopher Schaberg _ 'Adventure' show art 105 _ Christopher Schaberg _ 'Adventure'

Night White Skies

Sometimes it’s only through repetition and time that insight into your actions are revealed. This might come about because aspects of those actions aren’t always fully intentional. When it comes to Night White Skies, I firmly believe to be routed in architecture, but I’ve heard it described by others as often drifting beyond this topic.  But what I’ve come to appreciate more and more over time is the importance of a ‘hunch’. The idea that experience over time offers you the ability to see patterns and outcomes enough times that when an opportunity presents itself, you can...

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104 _ Vahid Vahdat and James Kerestes _ ‘Cinematic Betwixt’ show art 104 _ Vahid Vahdat and James Kerestes _ ‘Cinematic Betwixt’

Night White Skies

Today’s conversation is with Vahid Vahdat and James Kerestes about their book ‘Architecture, Film and the In-Between, Spatio Cinematic Betwixt’.  Discussions about trying to give shape to an uncertain future have been a recurring topic on this program. This is in part because it seems that even the most informed people are aware of just enough to know how much they don’t know. A changing climate, an evolving human body, and ubiquitous communication networks, AI, and social justice are just a few of the pressures facing us today. Such sustained change makes one wonder if...

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103 _ Aleksandra Jaeschke  _ ‘Greening Codes’ show art 103 _ Aleksandra Jaeschke _ ‘Greening Codes’

Night White Skies

Today’s conversation is with Aleksandra Jaeschke about her book ‘The Greening of America’s Building Codes, Promises and Paradoxes’.  There are realities we live with that are so ingrained in all aspects of our lives that we rarely think to question their origins. They are either intertwined with base economic standards or current laws and regulations and so to imagine an alternative would require not simple tweaks and updates but a fundamental restructuring of the whole system, and that’s just not something many have time or even the inclination to pursue.  I...

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102 _ Dr Laura Ferrarello _ 'Design Ethics' show art 102 _ Dr Laura Ferrarello _ 'Design Ethics'

Night White Skies

Today's conversation is about the role of teaching and discussing ethics during the design process.  This week's conversation is about the role of ethics during the design process. For many people, whether working in an office or academia, ethics is likely just a passing topic discussed once a year in required seminar training or ‘code of conduct’ handouts. But today we are discussing how ethics can play a role during the design process. As Dr Laura Ferrarello states, it is not about claiming solutions when including ethics. Instead, we discuss exploring potential outcomes to...

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101 _ Jeffrey S. Nesbit _ ‘Nature of Enclosure’ show art 101 _ Jeffrey S. Nesbit _ ‘Nature of Enclosure’

Night White Skies

Today’s conversation is with Jeffrey Nesbit about his book ‘Nature of Enclosure’.  So much of our architectural education and practice is reliant on the idea of control. Take representation for example. Without being able to quantify information about a site, materials or even people, how can we be expected to make decisions about what we ultimately build. If you can’t quantify it in a representation of some sort, how can you be expected to design with it. How can you be expected to make creative and informed choices? I'm confident in saying that’s the prevailing...

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100 _ Fred Scharmen _ 'Space Forces' show art 100 _ Fred Scharmen _ 'Space Forces'

Night White Skies

Today’s conversation is with Fred Sharmen about his book ‘Space Forces’.  Sometimes what you need is a little distance to get a clearer perspective on your current situation. Doing so lets you see a larger whole which often allows you to ask questions that might otherwise go unasked. This new distance might not give you any new answers to your current situation at first but just having new questions can be enough to keep you moving. When it comes to the topic of outer space, many people question why we would put so many resources into exploring a future in space when we have so...

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099 _ Tools for Stories w/ Sava Zivkovic show art 099 _ Tools for Stories w/ Sava Zivkovic

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Today’s conversation is about the potential impact of new tools for video games on architecture.    As architects, we have no shortage of external pressures we need to be aware of and engage. From climate change to new forms of communication technologies and social justice to name only three ...the list is long and at times overwhelming to think about. Many of these issues that we’re looking to better understand are not new, but how we tackle them today and intertwine a few of them together probably should be. So, it would make good sense for architecture to keep an eye...

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Amy Brady is the author of Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks–a Cool History of a Hot Commodity. She is also the executive director of Orion magazine, a contributing editor for Scientific American, and coeditor of The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate. Brady has made appearances on the BBC, NPR, and PBS. She holds a PhD in literature and American studies and has won writing and research awards from the National Science Foundation, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the Library of Congress. 

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