Time Sensitive The Slowdown
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- Society & Culture
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A podcast featuring candid, revealing long-form interviews with curious and courageous people about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey speaks with leading minds on how they think about time broadly and how specific moments in time have shaped who they are today.
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Massimo Bottura on Ethics, Aesthetics, and Slow Food
The Italian chef Massimo Bottura, famous for his three-Michelin-starred restaurant Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy, talks about the art of aging balsamic vinegar; his vast collection of thousands upon thousands of vinyl records; his deep love of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Maseratis; and how he thinks about the role of time, both literally and philosophically, in and out of the kitchen.
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Helen Molesworth on Museums as Machines for Slowness
Curator Helen Molesworth, author of the new book “Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing About Art,” discusses her lifelong engagement with the work of Marcel Duchamp; the transformative power of a great conversation; and the personal and professional freedom she has found in recent years as a roving, independent voice in the art world.
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Annabelle Selldorf on Architecture as Portraiture
The architect Annabelle Selldorf, principal of the New York–based firm Selldorf Architects, talks about the links she sees between Slow Food and her architecture, the intuitive aspects of form-making, and why she considers architecture “the mother of all arts.”
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Walter Hood on Connecting People and Place Through Landscape Architecture
The MacArthur “genius” fellow and landscape architect Walter Hood, creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California, and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley, discusses the intersection of social justice and landscape architecture, his arguments against what we traditionally deem “memorials” or “monuments,” and the power of language to literally shape the world around us.
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Min Jin Lee on the Healing Power of Fiction
Min Jin Lee, the author of the bestselling novels “Free Food for Millionaires” and “Pachinko,” talks about the complex role of time in the latter book, her miraculous recovery from chronic liver disease, and why she likens short-story writing to polishing diamonds.
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Mira Nakashima on Keeping Her Father’s Woodworking Legacy Alive
The architect and furniture maker Mira Nakashima talks about her family’s time spent in a Japanese internment camp during World War II; the enduring “karma yoga” influence of the Indian philosopher and spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo, whom her father, George Nakashima, once studied under and worked for as an architect; and why her father considered his work “an antidote to the modern world.”
Customer Reviews
Worthwhile
Open the door to a world of individuals whose life, character and achievements are the result of minds capitalizing on every human experience: education, talent, loss, family, success, fear, relationships, opportunity, fate, ambition, trauma, intuition, doubt, challenge, perseverance, determination, love, deception… Immerse yourself in listening to people who set themselves apart by their critical interpretation of time, where triviality and inaction have no space. Relate to ideas and events from a human perspective, nurture the mind. Life is time sensitive.
excellent
This podcast and these conversations are like yummy healthy smart cookies 🌱
Wow
This is a fantastic thoughtful and insightful podcast that gives one hope for the future. The interviewers focus on the guests—not themselves—and they do their research and ask insightful questions because they listen. They are also genuinely diplomatic with narcissistic guests(Paper woman). Really great podcast. So worth listening to.