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A regular digest of matters engineering, creativity and practical philosophy from your host, Oliver Broadbent.

#19 - The allotment tapes - Seven variations on climate and creativity 05/30/2020

#19 - The allotment tapes - Seven variations on climate and creativity This episode is about seven themes all related in some way to climate and creativity that keep coming to mind when I'm doing the watering, which is rather a lot at the moment: /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/14631179

#18 - Hazel Hill Wood - Dawn chorus sonic lockdown therapy 04/30/2020

#18 - Hazel Hill Wood - Dawn chorus sonic lockdown therapy 30 minutes of uninterrupted dawn chorus Hazel Hill Wood, a woodland nature reserve and education centre helping frontline staff develop resilience and wellbeing. While people are prevented from visiting the woods during lockdown, the team are working on ways to bring the wood to them during lockdown. Listening suggestions: /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/14212934

#17 - Tabitha Pope - Participatory Architecture 03/12/2020

#17 - Tabitha Pope - Participatory Architecture Tabitha Pope is an architect and lecturer, with a specialism temporary structures and participatory archiecture and a passion for work that sits at the boundary of art and architecture. In this episode, produced in support of International Women’s Day, my colleague Lucy Barber interview Tabatha about: What is participatory design and what benefits does it offer us in the climate emergency. Challenging power in order to make architecture a more inclusive space for all under-represented groups, not just women. How her practice of carpentry allows her to intervene in the design process in a different way. Establishing a nature connection to help designers and citizens alike tackle the biodiversity crisis. Stepping into a space of vulnerability in design in order to do things differently. Creating spaces for joy and encounter to tackle loneliness and build resilience in communities. ...And lots more. Enjoy! /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/13521761

Bengt Cousins-Jenvey - How to save a million tonnes of carbon 02/13/2020

Bengt Cousins-Jenvey - How to save a million tonnes of carbon Bengt is a consultant and 're-designer', working in sustainability and circular design in the built environment. This year we are working together to create training in response to the climate emergency. In this interview I ask Bengt about his big question: what single thing can you do to save a million tonnes of carbon. Exploring this question we get into: /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/13144856

Creativity, climate and clowning - Alexie Sommer interviews Oliver Broadbent 01/23/2020

Creativity, climate and clowning - Alexie Sommer interviews Oliver Broadbent In this episode we flip the format: Alexie Sommer, Independent Design and Communication Director and collaborator on many of my projects interviews me about why I set up Eiffel Over and Constructivist Ltd, and what our plans are for 2020. We get into: /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/12865820

#14 Sophie Thomas - Circular Design 07/30/2019

#14 Sophie Thomas - Circular Design Sophie is an unusual mix of campaigner, practising designer and Chartered Waste Manager. She’s been working in the fields of sustainable design, behaviour change and material process for nearly 20 years. I invited Sophie on to the show to talk about waste and circular design. We talk about the engineering of circular products, creative thinking for circular design and why you should beware of using glue that's too strong. /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/10706843

#13 - The Forth Bridge - An Engineering Detour 06/21/2019

#13 - The Forth Bridge - An Engineering Detour An engineering detour is something engineers do when they go out of their way, usually on holiday, to go and check out a piece of engineering infrastructure. In this episode I take an engineering detour to the mighty Forth Bridge. /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/10085078

#12 - Roma Agrawal - How to build a skyscraper 01/18/2018

#12 - Roma Agrawal - How to build a skyscraper Don’t try to build a skyscraper yourself without listening to this first: a step-by-step guide on how to build a skyscraper with structural engineer Roma Agrawal, author of 'Built, the Hidden Stories Behind our Structures’. We get into the engineering, creativity and philosophy of sky scrapers and their designers. /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/6163169

#11 Jack Bardwell - Spine-tingling creativity 01/04/2018

#11 Jack Bardwell - Spine-tingling creativity I recorded this episode last summer with my colleague, graphic designer Jack Bardwell just before he left to puruse new adventures in interior architecture. It has been a pleasure therefore to listen his voice in the edit, and to hear the many fascinating things he has to say about his creative process, what he has learnt from working with engineers, and, most intriguingly, the spine-tingling effect other people's creativity can have on him. I've got a feeling this going to be one of those episodes I keep coming back to when I need angles for looking at the world. Enjoy! /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/6116635

#10 - The J-P Flintoff meta podcast - saving the world one creative project at a time. 11/27/2017

#10 - The J-P Flintoff meta podcast - saving the world one creative project at a time. Journalist and author J-P Flintoff is this person who inspired me to start this podcast. He talks passionately about how to get people started on their creative projects and the positive impact their creativity has on the world. This interview gets very meta: a podcast about the creative process of podcasting. /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/5982345

#9 - Andrew Koskinski: Engineering transport in San Francisco 11/24/2017

#9 - Andrew Koskinski: Engineering transport in San Francisco I can’t think of metropolitan landscape that offers more varied and exciting opportunities for designing transport infrastructure than San Francisco, with its steep hills, its bay, its rapidly changing economy and its tantalisingly separated land masses. In this episode I catch up San Francisco-based transport engineer and old friend Andrew Kosinski and we geek out on transport-related matters /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/5976155

Eiffel Over on tour in San Francisco 05/12/2017

Eiffel Over on tour in San Francisco Thoughts, interviews and soundbites on engineering, creativity and practical philosophy from the West Coast. Ditching google maps + riding the bart + cycling downtown + Golden Gate Bridge + big trains + hidden cognitive demand of team work and collaboration + measuring student brave waves + what is reality + the latest from Paolo Alto /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/10108667

#7 - Ellie Westgarth Flynn - Creative strategies, instruments as extensions to our bodies and the importance of feedback 04/24/2017

#7 - Ellie Westgarth Flynn - Creative strategies, instruments as extensions to our bodies and the importance of feedback Song writer and piano player Ellie Westgarth-Flynn and I talk creative musical strategies, instruments as extensions of our bodies, the tension between technical mastery and creativity and the importance of audience feedback. We also have a jam. /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/5294933

#6 - Riding the Northern Line ghost train 04/03/2017

#6 - Riding the Northern Line ghost train In this episode I attempt a sonic recreation of a part of the London Underground that never got built, a stretch of the Northern Line that would have run from Moorgate to Alexandra Palace. En route I reflect on the transport infrastructure shapes our experience of the city and the difference between what engineers plan and what actually gets built. /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/5230751

#5 Nick Cobbing - photographing the Arctic 03/02/2017

#5 Nick Cobbing - photographing the Arctic Photographer and photojournalist Nick Cobbing talks about photographing the Arctic, what happens to photographic equipment at minus 38 degrees, using drones to take photos, the role of the audience in the creative process, being reduced to tears by the beauty of the planet, the best places to swing dance north of the Arctic, life hacks for creative people working on their own and whether penguins tango or waltz. /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/5135014

#4 Crossing France very very fast - a paean to TGVs 02/12/2017

#4 Crossing France very very fast - a paean to TGVs Ever since I saw my first one zoom past as a boy I’ve loved TGVs. In January I travelled from one side of France to the other and back by high-speed train to get to a conference, and used the chance to try to capture some of what I love about fast trains in France. It’s a mash up of travel diary, interviews and engineering history, all stitched together with familiar SNCF noises. Close your eyes and bon voyage... /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/5077613

#3 Andrew Scoones - Is there such a thing as engineering culture? 01/25/2017

#3 Andrew Scoones - Is there such a thing as engineering culture? Andrew is a filmmaker specialising in the built environment. Andrew seems to have interviewed or met almost all of my engineering design heroes (except Eiffel), and so I was equally delighted and nervous when he agreed to let me interview him! In this podcast we explore one of Andrew’s passions, the identification and celebration of engineering culture. Along the way way we get in to some great stories about designers, what they design and how they do it. /episode/index/show/eiffelover/id/5023066

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