Time Sensitive Podcast The Slowdown

Seattle-based architect Tom Kundig talks about his early years as a mountain climber; his incredible ascent in architecture, starting with an opportunity to work in Alaska; his profound lessons from his mentor, the sculptor Harold Balazs; and his passions for, among other things, wine, Japanese design, and hot rods.

The show’s co-host’s announce that the podcast is on hold until they can get back into The Slowdown’s Manhattan studio; talk about the company’s new podcast, At a Distance (atadistancepodcast.com); and discuss the importance of recontextualizing scale and speed.

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama discusses his fascination with jute sacks as a medium; his views on “Ghanaian time” and Africa’s global influence; his unorthodox upbringing; and his dreams for the Savannah Center for Contemporary Art, the artist-run nonprofit he founded in Tamale, Ghana, in 2019.

Anthropologist, environmentalist, and landscape designer Julia Watson discusses her new Taschen book, “Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism”; her deep research into various indigenous communities; and the symbiotic relationship between culture and nature.

Artist Dustin Yellin talks about everything from his wide-ranging dreams for his Pioneer Works nonprofit cultural center in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood; to his ambitious plans for “The Bridge,” a large-scale monument to the end of oil; to his harrowing memories of Hurricane Sandy.

Nathan Myhrvold, co-founder and CEO of Intellectual Ventures and the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, speaks about his journey into sous vide cooking, the problems he sees with the Slow Food movement, and why food photography has never been considered a high art.