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Sean Lally speaks with Sheila Jasanoff about ‘Ethics of Invention’ for episode 94 of Night White Skies

2022-03-10T14:51:00-05:00

In partnership with Sean Lally's Night White Skies podcast, we're sharing new podcast episodes with our readers here on Archinect. Night White Skies addresses "architecture’s future, as both earth’s environment and our human bodies are now open for design," with recent episodes covering issues such as contemporary fiction, CRISPR, evolution and genetics, Radical Gaming & Climate Histories.

In Sean's latest episode his guest is Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. The following text is written by Sean...

Architects share as much in common with science fiction authors as we do with the engineers whose tools we so often emulate. Making a Venn diagram of the disciplines that overlap with architecture shows just how much of what we do comes down to being able to synthesize the diversity of knowledge on our periphery. While some look to carve out an even smaller circle at the center of that Venn diagram, free from any over...

Sean Lally speaks with Adam Frank about ‘Alien Anthropocenes’ for episode 93 of Night White Skies

2022-01-26T10:49:00-05:00

In a new partnership with Sean Lally's Night White Skies podcast, we're going to be sharing new podcast episodes with our readers here on Archinect. Night White Skies addresses "architecture’s future, as both earth’s environment and our human bodies are now open for design," with recent episodes covering issues such as contemporary fiction, CRISPR, evolution and genetics, Radical Gaming & Climate Histories.

In Sean's latest episode his guest is Astrophysicist Adam Frank, author of the book ‘Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth.’ The following text is written by Sean...

There is a burden that comes with believing you’re unique. It’s not particularly overbearing when it’s an individual's talent or an animal’s quirky behavior, celebrated for its differences. But somehow believing you're unique in your destructive thoughts and behaviors is quite an alienating experience.

Most of us deal with such shortcomings knowing others also deal with them. Seeing others work ...