Thought Starters

White City Place

Produced out of White City Place, Thought Starters is a podcast about the relationship between business and creativity.

  1. The Art of Writing - Writing for Love

    19/12/2021

    The Art of Writing - Writing for Love

    This week’s Thought Starter discusses writing love stories, his first novel, and how everything starts from a blank page. Recorded live from The Pod at White City Place, our special Co-Host Liv Siddall, commissioner at WePresent and former Editor at It’s Nice That, sits down with author Caleb Azumah Nelson, to explore the journey of writing, and his first novel ‘Open Water’.

  2. The Art of Writing - Creating The Ultimate Art Museum

    14/12/2021

    The Art of Writing - Creating The Ultimate Art Museum

    This week’s Thought Starter discusses why exposing children to all types of art is so important, ahead of the launch of The Ultimate Art Museum, an incredible “museum-in-a-book” for young readers published by Phaidon. Recorded live from The Pod at White City Place, our special Co-Host Liv Siddall, commissioner at WePresent and former Editor at It’s Nice That, sits down with podcast host and author Ferren Gipson, to explore how to use writing to make museums more accessible.

  3. The Art of Writing - Writing Editorial

    06/12/2021

    The Art of Writing - Writing Editorial

    This week’s Thought Starter discusses writing editorial, and how to approach the blank page. Recorded live from The Pod at White City Place, our special Co-Host Liv Siddall, commissioner at WePresent and former Editor at It’s Nice That, sits down with journalist and Guardian columnist Stuart Heritage, to explore how to stay inspired during the process of writing.

  4. Life Sciences - The Science of Consumer Psychology and The Senses

    29/11/2021

    Life Sciences - The Science of Consumer Psychology and The Senses

    This week’s Thought Starter discusses consumer psychology and the senses (touch, taste, smell, sight and sound) and how they impact our perception of the world. Recorded live from The Pod at White City Place, our special Co-Host Sam Bompas of Bompas and Parr - the leading Architects of Taste: Feeding Minds and Stomachs, sits down with Betina Piqueras-Fiszman, Professor of Consumer Behaviour, to explore how our senses impact our perception of products and the world around us. Betina dedicates her time to research around exploring new ways of understanding consumers food preferences and motivations

  5. Life Sciences - The Science of Pain

    22/11/2021

    Life Sciences - The Science of Pain

    This week’s Thought Starter asks where does pain come from, what does it mean, and what effect does it have on our daily lives? Recorded live from The Pod at White City Place, our special Co-Host Sam Bompas of Bompas and Parr - the leading Architects of Taste: Feeding Minds and Stomachs, sits down with ​​Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, writer and journalist, to explore the science of pain and how it ultimately affects our survival. Linda has recently launched her book titled 'Ouch! Why Pain Hurts, And Why It Doesn't Have To', which explores why pain is complicated. The way we treat pain is superficial – we seek out states of perfect painlessness by avoiding it at all costs, or suppressing it, usually with drugs. Through in-depth interviews, investigation into the history of pain and original research, the book paints a new picture of pain as a complex and multi-layered phenomenon.

  6. Life Sciences - Connecting Science with Art

    15/11/2021

    Life Sciences - Connecting Science with Art

    This week’s Thought Starter asks what is art in the realm of Science Fiction, the idea of making personable art, the beauty of the unknown and more.

  7. Take it from China: two design trade shows on how Covid-19 will change their events forever, with Aroma Xie and Zhuo Tan

    07/05/2020

    Take it from China: two design trade shows on how Covid-19 will change their events forever, with Aroma Xie and Zhuo Tan

    As the whole world grapples with lockdowns, closures and cancelled events – and the milestones of the design industry’s busy calendar of trade shows disappears, we might look to one country for lessons on how to cope: China.

  8. Safe futures: what design can do and what it can't give up on, with DOGA's Benedicte Sunde and Vestre's Jan Christian Vestre

    24/04/2020

    Safe futures: what design can do and what it can't give up on, with DOGA's Benedicte Sunde and Vestre's Jan Christian Vestre

    We meet Benedicte Sunde and Jan Christian, two leaders in the Norwegian design community who would have been showing at the Milan Design Week, to speak instead about the role of design as we emerge from Covid-19 lockdowns.

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Produced out of White City Place, Thought Starters is a podcast about the relationship between business and creativity.

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  • Creator
    White City Place
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2021
  • Episodes
    79
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © White City Place copyright 2026
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