16 episodes
Endless Vital Activity Accept & Proceed
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Endless Vital Activity is a podcast developed by creative studio Accept and Proceed, bringing you conversations to inspire radical action. Throughout this series, Accept and Proceed’s founder, David Johnston, will engage in wide-ranging conversations with radical thinkers, artists, scientists, and activists about the problems we have been given to solve, seeking new perspectives to reimagine our world. The creative studio partners with visionaries and believes the cross-pollination of minds and ideas is vital; that solutions can’t be found in isolation. Connection and collaboration are critical. If you would like to submit any questions, comments or would like to feature on Endless Vital Activity, please contact info@acceptandproceed.com
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Bethany Koby
In this episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston meets with Bethany Koby – mum, CEO, Social entrepreneur, designer, educator and art director.
Bethany journeys through her trajectory, from her education to the inception of Fam Studio and Tech Will Save Us. Johnston and Koby interrogate how technology can be an expressive medium, as opposed to just a tool, and also discuss the challenges & opportunities of parenting in the digital age.
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Adrian Lahoud
In this episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston meets with Adrian Lahoud - architect, urban designer, researcher and dean of the School of Architecture at London's Royal College of Arts. Johnston and Lahoud discuss Second Sea, why we need to stimulate debate around reparations, and the importance of reciprocity.
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Michael Pawlyn
In this episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston welcomes a radically new perspective to the season with architect Michael Pawlyn. Listen to the conversation on what lies between our built environment and our natural environment: biomimicry.
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Charles Eisenstein
In this episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston speaks with none other than whom many consider as one of the great philosophers and writers of our time: Charles Eisenstein. In this special conversation, join David and Charles for an enlightening mind journey on the topic of Rethinking Meta-Systems.
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Jessica Ennis-Hill
Our first guest kicking off this season is Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, an Olympic champion, three-times world champion heptathlete and the founder of Jennis, a fitness app synced to its user’s unique hormonal cycle. This season’s theme is Rethinking Systems, and with Jessica, we are Rethinking Women’s Health.
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Paola Antonelli
“Commercialism is not the antithesis of culture; it can be part of it, but a well-rounded culture does not keep culture and commerce in antithesis”
In this episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston speaks with Paola Antonelli, senior curator of the Department of Architecture & Design and Director of R&D at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
David and Paola explore her philosophy of design for the people, why she compares her role as a curator to that of a movie director as oppose to a storyteller, plus Paola lifts the lid on the production of her speaker series, Salon, uncovering the work that goes into setting the theme of each event.