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Simon Critchley on Finding Clarity in Philosophy and Comedy
Season 3 Episode 42
Simon Critchley has seen his share of accidents. In his younger years, he damaged his hands while working in manufacturing plants, and ruined his hea…
5 years, 8 months ago
Monique Péan on the Transformative Nature of Fossils, Rocks, and Meteorites
Season 3 Episode 41
New York–based jewelry and object designer Monique Péan sees fossils and extraterrestrial materials as portals to another time, space, and place. Pyr…
5 years, 9 months ago
Dan Colen on Shifting Perspectives Through Farming and Art
Season 3 Episode 40
Artist Dan Colen built Sky High Farm in the same way all his ideas are realized: intuitively, and with the faith to see it through. A 40-acre self-su…
5 years, 10 months ago
Angel Chang on Building Resilience Through Centuries-Old Crafts
Season 3 Episode 39
To make her namesake womenswear line, New York–based designer Angel Chang had to forget everything she knew about fashion. Her label’s clothing is ma…
5 years, 11 months ago
Daniel Boulud on Maintaining Consistency Over the Long Haul
Season 3 Episode 38
Asked how the coronavirus pandemic has affected his relationship with time, Daniel Boulud chokes up. The New York–based French chef—who owns 13 resta…
6 years ago
Tom Kundig on the Parallels Between Mountain Climbing and Architecture
Season 3 Episode 37
Tom Kundig brings a refreshingly laid-back, aw-shucks, go-with-the-flow attitude to an industry that seems, on the whole, largely to lack that kind o…
6 years, 3 months ago
Special Episode: Spencer Bailey and Andrew Zuckerman on Putting Time Sensitive on Hiatus During the Covid-19 Quarantine
Season 3
The show’s co-host’s announce that the podcast is on hold until they can get back into The Slowdown’s Manhattan studio; talk about the company’s new …
6 years, 6 months ago
Ibrahim Mahama on the Great Potential of Art to Change How We Look at the World
Season 3 Episode 36
Over the past decade—and especially in the last year—the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has swiftly risen to become one of the most prominent African…
6 years, 6 months ago
Julia Watson on the Power of Indigenous Technologies to Transform Our Planet
Season 3 Episode 35
Julia Watson is really into TEK. Not necessarily the Silicon Valley variety of tech, but rather traditional ecological knowledge. An anthropologist, …
6 years, 6 months ago
Dustin Yellin on His Quest to Reimagine Learning in the 21st Century
Season 3 Episode 34
Since establishing the Pioneer Works nonprofit cultural center in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood in 2013, artist Dustin Yellin has slowly grown the…
6 years, 6 months ago