Iterations

Drexel Westphal
  • 5.0 (2)
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Iterations is a podcast exploring how creative research shapes the world we share. Each episode delves into the ideas, practices, and collaborations that drive innovation in the creative industries—revealing how these disciplines intersect with urgent social issues, from community health to cultural preservation. Through conversations with faculty, artists, and community partners, Iterations traces the evolving processes behind creative inquiry and its power to build more connected, equitable futures. From Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.

Episodes

  1. 2D AGO

    The Body Remembers | Dance as Health Infrastructure with Valerie Ifill

    The body as an archive and dance for community storytelling. This is Iterations, a podcast about creativity, design, and the ideas that emerge when disciplines collide. Hosted by Laurel Hostak Jones in partnership with Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, Iterations explores how research and practice in the creative disciplines can inform solutions to social and environmental issues. This season, we're looking at the intersection of the arts and health. In episode one: The Body Remembers, dancer, researcher, and assistant professor Valerie Ifill positions dance as infrastructure for health, research, healing, and storytelling. Ifill describes the body as an archive that holds culture, memory, joy, and trauma, and recalls noticing movement’s transformative impact on her mental health as a teenager. She discusses Movement of Mothers, a project where mothers (especially those whose realities are omitted or misrepresented) share stories in circles and translate them into movement, reclaiming bodily agency with care and boundaries. She also co-created Black Girls STEAMing Through Dance, a multidisciplinary program for girls ages 7–13 integrating wearable tech, coding, and choreography to build STEAM confidence and community. Ifill closes with a simple practice: notice how you feel, then try a private two-minute dance.00:00 Health Beyond Hospitals01:39 Meet Valerie Ifill03:37 The Body as Archive04:54 The Transformative Power of Movement06:20 Movement of Mothers09:55 Black Girls STEAMing through Dance13:39 Homework assignment15:39 Closing and Credits

    17 min

  2. TRAILER

    Season One Trailer | Iterations: Creative Research in Motion

    Coming in 2026 from Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. Iterations is a podcast exploring how the disciplines ofdesign, media, entertainment, and the arts shape the world we share. A season about the spaces we inhabit… the stories we tell…and the futures we imagine when creativity meets care. In Season One, we sit down with dancers, designers,filmmakers, architects, and artists who are rebuilding the world from the inside out, challenging what health is, and what it could be. From embodiment and movement… to the politics of the builtenvironment… to disability frameworks and the power of representation… these conversations trace the pulse between art and wellbeing. This season isn’t about answers. It’s about openings. New ways of seeing — and sensing — the world around us. Join us for Iterations: Creative Research in Motion,Season One. Where creativity becomes a catalyst for equity, and the nextversion of the world is always in progress.   Iterations: Creative Research in Motion is producedby Laurel Hostak Jones and the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. Recorded at the Content Creation Studio of Drexel’s Department of Cinema & Television.   Trailer music: Meeting of the Minds by Scientific, viaEpidemic Sound.

    3 min

Trailer

Ratings & Reviews

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About

Iterations is a podcast exploring how creative research shapes the world we share. Each episode delves into the ideas, practices, and collaborations that drive innovation in the creative industries—revealing how these disciplines intersect with urgent social issues, from community health to cultural preservation. Through conversations with faculty, artists, and community partners, Iterations traces the evolving processes behind creative inquiry and its power to build more connected, equitable futures. From Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.

Information

  • Creator
    Drexel Westphal
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Drexel Westphal
  • Show Website
    Iterations