We are pleased to announce the launch of Worldchanging's new podcast series, hosted by our colleague and ally, Jennifer Leonard.
Each week, Jennifer will present interviews with innovators across numerous fields, gathered live in the field and delivered fresh to you. Without further ado...
Welcome to my podcast, Worldchangers! It’s about the world of design and the design of the world. It’s about live dialogue with creative thinkers and doers the world over. It’s about change and how we ride it into a better tomorrow. I’m calling it 4’33”, taking inspiration from John Cage’s notorious (same-named) composition. His 4’33” was essentially a timeframe of four minutes and thirty-three seconds in which whatever sounds ‘happened’ were exactly the right sounds for that place and time. My first podcast is one of six field recordings from a recent design conference I attended in Belgium called Luminous Green. Most of the recordings I did outdoors, so you’ll hear environmental clamor, like church bells and lawn mowers, as well as natural sounds, like chirping birds and gusts of wind. Rather than diminish the found sounds within the context of a more formal interview, I’ve decided to embrace them. And I will continue to do so. Most of the interviews here on out I aim to do outside of a recording studio, in the appropriate context of the moment, with all the appropriate sounds that go along with it.
-- Jennifer Leonard
Jun 6: Luminous Green (1/6) - Massive Change Revived
The first of six in this series is my attempt to do two things: 1--bridge the gap between this new podcast experiment and my last radio show, Massive Change (on CIUT 89.5FM, University of Toronto) and 2--reinvigorate quotes from the Massive Change book*, with the view to iterate and provoke further dialogue around the power and promise of design. Live dialogue to (dead) text to live dialogue all over again. Conversant to concrete to conversant again. Flexible to inflexible to flexible again. My cycle-to-cycle process: I pulled quotes from the book that were originally part of a live discussion I had on the radio with various thought leaders across disciplines (which was my primary research methodology for gathering content for the Massive Change book); then I crumpled up the individual quotes into little balls of paper and asked the group members to each choose one, read aloud and comment; finally, one at a time, each person interpreted the quotes however he or she chose to, and the discussion went from there.
* for full context in which referenced quotes appear, see my original edited transcripts in the Massive Change book.
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Group discussion members:
Joey Berzowska
Amy Franceschini
Nik Gaffney
Mathias Gmachl
Randall Krantz
Maja Kuzmanovic
Oliver Lowenstein
Myriel Milicevic
Marko Peljhan
Steven Pickles
Bart Vandeput
Angelo Vermeulen
Rachel Wingfield
Coming Soon on 4’33” ~
Jun 11: Luminous Green (2/6) - Maja Kuzmanovic
Jun 18: Luminous Green (3/6) - Randall Krantz, Climate Change Initiative, World Economic Forum
Jun 25: Luminous Green (4/6) - Angelo Vermeulen, mixed media artist and PhD biologist
Jul 02: Luminous Green (5/6) - Marko Peljhan, Interpolar
Jul 09: Luminous Green (6/6) - Carole Collet, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Textile Futures
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