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Education episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to educators, writers, artists, activists,teachers, librarians in the arts, STEM and other disciplines. To listen to ALL arts and education episodes of "The Creative Process · Arts, Culture and Society", you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify:tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people.Conversations with writers, artists and creative thinkers across the Arts and STEM. We discuss their life, work and artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, leaders and public figures share real experiences and offer valuable insights. Notable guests and participating museums and organizations include: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Neil Patrick Harris, Smithsonian, Roxane Gay, Musée Picasso, EARTHDAY.ORG, Neil Gaiman, UNESCO,Joyce Carol Oates, Mark Seliger, Acropolis Museum, Hilary Mantel, Songwriters Hall of Fame, George Saunders, The New Museum, Lemony Snicket, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Galleries, Joe Mantegna,PETA, Greenpeace, EPA, Morgan Library and Museum, and many others. The interviews are hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities, and collaborators from around the world. These conversations are also part of our traveling exhibition. www.creativeprocess.info For The Creative Process podcasts from Seasons 1 and 2, visit: tinyurl.com/creativepod or creativeprocess.info/interviews-page-1, which has our complete directory of interviews, transcripts, artworks, and details about ways to get involved. INSTAGRAM @creativeprocesspodcast

  1. 15h ago

    The Circle of Life: Artists & Scientists on Reconnecting with the Natural World

    "We need to learn from the animals how to live more gently, consume less and look out for each other in this great circle of life.": Our shared moment in time reminds us that we are one part of a vast ecosystem. Today, we explore how humanity can live in harmony with the Earth by paying attention to the land and lives of animals around us. We listen to those who translate the voices of the living world: authors Yann Martel, Georgi Gospodinov, Chiara Barzini, Erica Berry, Kristin Ohlson, Helen Whybrow, screenwriter-director Caroline Thompson and Existential Therapist Emmy van Deurzen. We reflect on our changing environment with Nobel Peace Prize-winning climate scientist Kevin Trenberth, soil expert David Montgomery, restoration ecologist Tom Crowther, wetlands conservationist Jane Madgwick, Scientist Rebellion co-founder Tim Hewlett, architect and urban designer Carlo Ratti. And Ingrid Newkirk reminds us that our survival directly depends on the health of the natural world. (0:00) Ingrid Newkirk (Co-Founder, PETA) Chiara Barzini (Author of Aqua) (3:41) Erica Berry (5:07) Yann Martel(Author, Son of Nobody) (6:20) Georgi Gospodinov (Author, Time Shelter) (7:39) Emmy van Deurzen (Therapist) (9:08) Jane Madgwick (Ecologist) (10:29) Caroline Thompson (Screenwriter) (13:00) Helen Whybrow (Author, The Salt Stones) (14:11) Tom Crowther (Founder, Restor) (14:56) Kristin Ohlson (16:10) Tim Hewlett (17:54) Kevin Trenberth(20:10) Carlo Ratti (Architect) (21:59) David Montgomery To hear more from each guest, listen to their full interviews https://www.creativeprocess.info/pod https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews-featured/anth-circle-life

    The Circle of Life: Artists & Scientists on Reconnecting with the Natural World

  2. 1d ago

    24th US Poet Laureate ADA LIMÓN on Memory, Wonder & Listening to the Living World - Highlights


    “It’s always very interesting that we have to make a case for art because we don’t have to make a case for fast food. Like, we don’t have to make a case for all of these sort of things in our lives that we do not need, and yet we have to make a case for beauty? We have to make a case for the soul? We have to make a case for humanity? We have to make a case for singing back the wounded world? That to me is fascinating” My guest today is Ada Limón. She served two historic terms as the 24th poet laureate in the United States. She has brought poetry to public parks across the US, and her words have traveled through deep space, engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. In over 20 years of writing in celebrated collections like Bright Dead Thingsand The Carryingand her new book, Startlement: New and Selected Poems, Ada has brought a sincerity to American poetry rooted in connection to the natural world. She’s written with inspiring honesty about the death of loved ones, trying to conceive and also the unexpected liberation of deciding to step away from societal expectations of motherhood and embrace a life happily childfree. Her latest book on craft, Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry, asks how a poem can hold our heaviest grief without letting the human spirit fracture. After years living in Kentucky and New York, she bought back her childhood home in Sonoma Valley, stepping back into the rooms where her poetic imagination first took root. We’ll talk about the discipline of paying attention and why poetry remains an essential act of human survival. (0:03) The Case for Beauty   (0:39) About Ada Limón (2:44) The Deepening of Roots (5:01) Reading 'On Earth As It Is on Earth' (6:08) Bearing Witness Without Surrendering to Grief (7:50) The Definition of Beauty and the Dissolving Self (9:41) Love as an Active Daily Choice (11:11) The Practice of Loving-Kindness Meditation (13:28) Reading 'Hell or High Water' (17:01) Writing Without Music and Listening to the Landscape (19:08) Dreams as Archetypes of Consciousness (21:34) The Environmental and Creative Toll of Generative AI (24:02) AI and the Future of the Arts (25:21) Stewardship, Conservation, and Faith in the Invisible Workers (28:14) The Childfree Daughter (29:57) Listening to Trees as an Act of Reciprocity (32:40) The Music of the World (34:03) The Seed of Interconnectedness Episode Website www.creativeprocess.info/pod Instagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

    24th US Poet Laureate ADA LIMÓN on Memory, Wonder & Listening to the Living World - Highlights


  3. 1d ago

    Beginning to Live: The Art of Existential Freedom w/ EMMY VAN DEURZEN

    “As a psychotherapist, I've worked with thousands of people over my 53 years of practice, and I have had to learn to love each and every one of them. There is something about opening your heart and stopping judging and arguing, and listening again, inquiring until you find what is most lovable about another person, and that is a very difficult thing to do. We're all inclined to reject one another, even the people we love. It is very difficult to systematically seek to accord the other respect, your attention, your care, your capacity for appreciating and valuing what is good in them and what is possible for them in the future.” Emmy van Deurzen is a philosopher, a therapist and a pioneer who has spent five decades mapping the architecture of human existence. Born in the Netherlands and trained in the radical psychiatric wards of France, she came to London in 1977 to work alongside R.D. Laing, only to realize the anti-psychiatry movement had kind of lost its way. She decided to build something new. Today, she's the founder of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the leading voice of existential therapy in the United Kingdom and founded the Existential Movement. Her work challenges the medical model of mental illness, suggesting instead that our crises are not diseases to be cured but philosophical crossroads to be understood. Her latest book is a distillation of that life's work. Beginning To Live: The Art of Existential Freedom is her first book written for a general audience, offering a guide on how to reclaim our freedom and find meaning in the face of suffering. Emmy van Deurzen, welcome to The Creative Process. (0:00) The Art of Psychotherapy (1:39) AI and Artificial Wisdom (5:40) Practicing Freedom (8:06) Finding Inner Peace Amidst the Ruins (16:19) The Yellow Balloon (22:36) Freedom and the Confrontation with Death (25:31) Multilingual Roots, Language and Translation (32:03) The End of One Love, The Beginning of a Love of the Arts (37:20) The Art of Loving (45:17) The Canvas of Life (48:24) The Purified Essence (1:01:10) The AI Dependency and the Future of Loving (1:10:22) Radical Psychiatry, R.D. Laing, and The Divided Self (1:17:52) Awakening to Beauty (1:24:38) The Art of Living and Existential Freedom Episode Website www.creativeprocess.info/pod Instagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

    Beginning to Live: The Art of Existential Freedom w/ EMMY VAN DEURZEN

  4. 1d ago

    The Fight for the Future: AI, Privacy & Power with CARISSA VÉLIZ

    “Algorithms are deciding whether you are eligible for a loan, a job, an apartment or insurance. They determine what you see online, who reads your social media posts and who connects with you on dating apps. They may even decide whether you get arrested or go to jail. Your very life hangs in the balance of prophecies.” In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with Carissa Véliz, an associate professor at the University of Oxford, about her new book, Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future—from Ancient Oracles to AI.  Linking this work to her previous book, Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data, Véliz writes: “ surveillance and prediction are digital technology’s original sins.” In our wide-ranging discussion, we talk about how both massive and intrusive invasions of privacy at all levels of society and false claims to be able to predict the future erode democracy, are corrosive to ethics, and undermine people’s ability to think for themselves.  Instead, we are conditioned to trust an unregulated band of “effective altruists” who claim to know better than we what kinds of lives we should prefer and the choices we should make. Véliz argues instead that we should embrace the uncertain to build resilience, to prepare for contingency but not be determined by what we cannot see, and to foster curiosity and imagination. (0:00) Digital Technology's Original Sins (3:46) How Books and Prophecies Choose Their Readers(6:52) The Link Between AI, Mass Surveillance, and Profit(9:48) Why Ethics Is the Hidden Foundation of Democracy (14:53) The Future Tense as a Tech Executive Power Play(17:21) Predictions as Speech Acts and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies (23:05) Artificial Intelligence as the Ultimate Bullshitter(27:40) Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Dangers of Infinity Episode Website www.palumbo-liu.comhttps://speakingoutofplace.comBluesky @palumboliu.bsky.socialInstagram @speaking_out_of_place

    The Fight for the Future: AI, Privacy & Power with CARISSA VÉLIZ

  5. 2d ago

    ADA LIMÓN on Interconnectedness, Startlement & The Power of Poetry

    My guest today is Ada Limón. She served two historic terms as the 24th poet laureate in the United States. She has brought poetry to public parks across the US, and her words have traveled through deep space, engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. In over 20 years of writing in celebrated collections like Bright Dead Things and The Carrying and her new book, Startlement: New and Selected Poems, Ada has brought a sincerity to American poetry rooted in connection to the natural world. She’s written with inspiring honesty about the death of loved ones, trying to conceive and also the unexpected liberation of deciding to step away from societal expectations of motherhood and embrace a life happily childfree. Her latest book on craft, Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry, asks how a poem can hold our heaviest grief without letting the human spirit fracture. After years living in Kentucky and New York, she bought back her childhood home in Sonoma Valley, stepping back into the rooms where her poetic imagination first took root. We’ll talk about the discipline of paying attention and why poetry remains an essential act of human survival. (1:45) Silence as the Music of the World (9:17) The Deepening of Roots (13:19) 'On Earth As It Is on Earth' (18:08) Bearing Witness Without Surrendering to Grief (21:02) Singing Back the Wounded World and the Case for Beauty (28:22) Love as an Active Daily Choice (30:38) The Practice of Loving-Kindness Meditation (37:34) Writing Without Music, Listening to the Landscape (40:04) Dreams as Archetypes of Consciousness (42:51) The Creative Toll of AI (51:29) Embracing the Liberation of a Childfree Life (1:01:06) Listening to Trees as an Act of Reciprocity (1:06:44) Interconnectedness of Living Beings Episode Website www.creativeprocess.info/pod Instagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

    ADA LIMÓN on Interconnectedness, Startlement & The Power of Poetry

  6. 2d ago ·  Bonus

    Science in Resistance: Direct Action for Climate Justice, Democracy in Education w/ FERNANDO RACIMO

    “By pretending like science is neutral or apolitical, we're really feeding a particular discourse which serves whatever political structures are in place right now, whatever status quo is in place right now. Science can never be apolitical because it's a human activity, it's practiced in society with others, with human and more-than-human beings.” In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with Fernando Racimo, a leading scientist-activist, about his new book, Science in Resistance. This book gives a riveting account of the founding and growth of the international group Scientist Rebellion, in which now thousands of scientists from around the world have organized direct actions to draw attention to the climate crisis. Breaking through the censorship and silencing carried on by big fossil fuel companies and also scientific groups in and out of academia, which often collude with each other, members of SR have put their careers and their bodies on the line to raise public consciousness and to spur action. We talk about the connection between power and knowledge, between ecocide and genocide and the need to democratize education and research if we are going to have the kind of world we want to both live in and to pass on to other generations. (0:00) Science in Resistance(2:52) Moving to Direct Action(6:57) The Power of the Teach-In(10:58) The Climate Killjoy(11:24) The Myth of Scientific Neutrality(17:38) Fossil Fuel Complicity in Universities(23:52) Educating a World on Fire(30:41) Ecocide and Genocide(32:19) Democratizing the University(37:19) Learning from the Global South Racimo is a scientist-activist and the author of the new book Science in Resistance. He co-founded the Danish chapters of Scientist Rebellion and Academics for Palestine and works at the intersection of academia and social movement organizing. He earned his bachelor from Harvard and his PhD from UC Berkeley and is now an assoc. professor in ecology and evolution at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen. He has written articles and OpEds on the urgent need for scientists to join and support social movements fighting structures of oppression, as well as on strategies for transforming and democratizing academic institutions to serve positive socio-ecological needs. He teaches ecology and evolution, degrowth and socio-ecological justice, decolonizing global health and social movement theory and practice. Episode Site www.palumbo-liu.com https://speakingoutofplace.com Bluesky @palumboliu.bsky.social IG @speaking_out_of_place

    Science in Resistance: Direct Action for Climate Justice, Democracy in Education w/ FERNANDO RACIMO

  7. 2d ago

    Speaking Out of Place: Getting Our Political Voices Back

    That need to reclaim our voice often starts in the very spaces where we feel most silenced. We live in an era where institutional decay and asymmetrical class power have made social consent seem almost irrelevant to the ruling class. To understand how we change those incentives, we have to look at the systems designed to silence us, and the movements successfully disrupting them. Today, we hear from scholars and educators rewiring our institutions—Jesse Hagopian, Eunsong Kim, Tim Hewlett, and Sara Ahmed. We turn to the authors documenting the human cost of these systems—Benjamin Moser, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Yuri Herrera. Finally, we hear from journalists, researchers, and legal minds analyzing climate delay and political dysfunction—Ben Franta, Bill McKibben, Ben Tarnoff, Liza Featherstone, and Aziz Rana. To hear more from each guest, listen to their full interviews: https://www.creativeprocess.info/speaking-out-of-place Episode Website www.palumbo-liu.comhttps://speakingoutofplace.comBluesky @palumboliu.bsky.socialInstagram @speaking_out_of_place

  8. 3d ago

    EMMY VAN DEURZEN on Existential Freedom, Psychotherapy & Finding Meaning - Highlights

    Emmy van Deurzen is a philosopher, a therapist and a pioneer who has spent five decades mapping the architecture of human existence. Born in the Netherlands and trained in the radical psychiatric wards of France, she came to London in 1977 to work alongside R.D. Laing, only to realize the anti-psychiatry movement had kind of lost its way. She decided to build something new. Today, she's the founder of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the leading voice of existential therapy in the United Kingdom and founded the Existential Movement. Her work challenges the medical model of mental illness, suggesting instead that our crises are not diseases to be cured but philosophical crossroads to be understood. Her latest book is a distillation of that life's work. Beginning To Live: The Art of Existential Freedom is her first book written for a general audience, offering a guide on how to reclaim our freedom and find meaning in the face of suffering. Emmy van Deurzen, welcome to The Creative Process. (0:00) The Paths to Freedom (2:03) Emmy Van Deurzen, Philosopher, Existential Therapist, Author (3:13) AI and Artificial Wisdom (5:03) Practicing Freedom (7:00) Finding Inner Peace Amidst the Ruins (8:39) The Yellow Balloon (11:17) Multilingual Roots, Language and Translation (13:31) The End of One Love, The Beginning of a Love of the Arts (16:11) The Art of Loving (17:30) The Canvas of Life (20:20) The Purified Essence (27:46) The AI Dependency (30:09) Radical Psychiatry, R.D. Laing and The Divided Self (33:48) Awakening to Beauty (37:18) The Art of Living and Existential Freedom Episode Website www.creativeprocess.info/pod Instagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

    EMMY VAN DEURZEN on Existential Freedom, Psychotherapy & Finding Meaning - Highlights
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Education episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to educators, writers, artists, activists,teachers, librarians in the arts, STEM and other disciplines. To listen to ALL arts and education episodes of "The Creative Process · Arts, Culture and Society", you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify:tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people.Conversations with writers, artists and creative thinkers across the Arts and STEM. We discuss their life, work and artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, leaders and public figures share real experiences and offer valuable insights. Notable guests and participating museums and organizations include: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Neil Patrick Harris, Smithsonian, Roxane Gay, Musée Picasso, EARTHDAY.ORG, Neil Gaiman, UNESCO,Joyce Carol Oates, Mark Seliger, Acropolis Museum, Hilary Mantel, Songwriters Hall of Fame, George Saunders, The New Museum, Lemony Snicket, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Galleries, Joe Mantegna,PETA, Greenpeace, EPA, Morgan Library and Museum, and many others. The interviews are hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities, and collaborators from around the world. These conversations are also part of our traveling exhibition. www.creativeprocess.info For The Creative Process podcasts from Seasons 1 and 2, visit: tinyurl.com/creativepod or creativeprocess.info/interviews-page-1, which has our complete directory of interviews, transcripts, artworks, and details about ways to get involved. INSTAGRAM @creativeprocesspodcast

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