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Ten minute highlights of the popular The Creative Process & One Planet podcasts. Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work & artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, leaders & public figures share real experiences & offer valuable insights. Notable guests and participating museums and organizations include: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & 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 & Museum, and many others. The interviews are hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities
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- Aug 19, 202618 min
Life and Art at LINCOLN CENTER: Chief Artistic Officer SHANTA THAKE on the Power of the Arts
"I really do believe that the arts are critical to how we move forward together, and live performance in particular, I think, is a way of us practicing how to move across our ideological boundaries and find one another and imagine these new worlds together and create together."Shanta Thake is the Chief Artistic Officer at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts—the nation's largest performing arts complex. Before stepping into this role, she spent sixteen years at The Public Theater, shaping the city's cultural landscape through Joe's Pub and expansive community initiatives. Today, she is tearing down walls—both the literal barriers separating Lincoln Center from its neighbors, and the figurative ones that dictate who belongs in our cultural spaces. She views the arts not as a luxury, but as essential civic infrastructure. We are pleased to have Shanta Thake to discuss her journey, the power of radical curation, and the future of public performance. Reimagining Lincoln Center A Collective Caretaking The Technology of Human Creation The Curiosity of Childhood San Juan Hill and The Wall globalFEST: Music and Connection The Gift of Pause A Collective CaretakingEpisode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast
- Aug 7, 202626 min
Time, Memory & the Art of Translation w/ GEORGI GOSPODINOV & ANGELA RODEL
Today, we have a conversation about time, memory, and the bittersweet geography of human sorrow. Georgi Gospodinovis widely considered one of the most daring voices in contemporary European literature. His acclaimed novel, The Physics of Sorrow, won the prestigious Jan Michalski Prize in 2016, blending ancient myth and quantum physics to chronicle the delicate realities of post-socialist Eastern Europe. Joining him is Angela Rodel, a brilliant linguist, musician, and translator whose profound artistic empathy carries the flowing cadences of the Bulgarian language into vivid English. Together, this extraordinary creative duo made history by winning the 2023 International Booker Prizefor Time Shelter—the first book written in Bulgarian to ever receive the honor.Time Shelter is a masterfully dark, funny, and prescient novel. It begins with an enigmatic psychiatrist opening a clinic that treats Alzheimer’s patients by meticulously recreating past decades to match their internal clocks. But the experiment quickly escapes the clinic walls, triggering a pan-European crisis where entire nations hold democratic referendums to choose which era of the past they will retreat into. It is a book that holds up a mirror to our own world, exploring what happens when a civilization faces a deficit of meaning and tries to weaponize nostalgia. The Trap of Nostalgia The Nonlinear Approach to Storytelling Translating the Atmosphere The Pandemic of the Past Death and the Gardener The Translators Calling Slowing Down Time Storytelling vs Propaganda Translating the Atmosphere What makes a good life? What has given your life meaning? Reflections on God and the Stories His Grandmother Told Him The Importance of Hugging, Empathy and StorytellingEpisode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast
- Jul 23, 202617 min
Surviving the AI Hype Cycle Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Job) w/ NACHO DE GREGORIO - Highlights
“ I'm a believer in this technology. I believe that the cheaper it is, the more people will use it. So, even if we assume that models will get smaller for the same level of intelligence, the demand to actually have more compute is going to be enormous. And the reason why you want to have the, the compute close to you is not only in terms of performance. As a national security threat, I'm not saying this will happen, but it could happen that, China or US or whoever decides to stop exporting compute to the rest of the world. If that happens today, Europe has zero AI at the scale of data the data center.”For over a decade, technology has promised to make life easier. Social media was meant to connect us, we were told smartphones would simplify our lives, and now artificial intelligence promises to lift even more daily burdens. Yet these advances also raise an important question: when do tools enhance human creativity, and when do they replace the very experiences that give life meaning? While AI holds immense promise, many people face challenges coping with current technological advancements that ‘redefine’ human communication, work, education, and democratic values. Today, we examine societal and cultural impacts of AI, identity, inclusion, governance, education, and community well-being. And are speaking with Nacho de Gregorio, author of TheWhiteBox, one of Medium's most-followed AI analysts, for a level-headed conversation about both the remarkable potential and the real limitations of AI. The hidden risks of the AI debt bubble Shadow borrowing and the data center boom The AI compute gap and national security Europe's missing infrastructure and tech sovereignty The Jevons paradox and the demand for compute Why open source AI is the best path forward The chess paradox and the future of human art Unmeasurable domains and future-proofing your career Tutoring and AI in education Navigating AI slop and the information ecosystem The Pleasure of Waiting vs. The HustleEpisode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast
- Jul 3, 202624 min
Our Wild Familiars - DR. DAN WERB on Animals that Live Among Us & Urban Wildlife Conservation
If you live in a city, you’ve probably had that moment in the middle of the night. You hear a scratching in the walls, or you catch the glowing eyes of a raccoon peering out from a dumpster, and for a second, the concrete world feels a lot less 'controlled' than we like to pretend. We’ve been taught to think of cities as 'biological deserts'—places where nature goes to die. But my guest today, Dan Werb, says that’s a myth we tell ourselves to feel safe. Dan is an award-winning epidemiologist and a musician, and in his new book, Our Wild Familiars, he explores the 'synanthropes'—the wild creatures that aren't our pets, but aren't quite strangers either. They are the coyotes, the bats, and even the octopuses that are learning to use our cities as laboratories for their own rapid evolution. He’s also the author of The Invisible Siege and City of Omens. The unexpected biodiversity of urban areas and wild familiars What is a Synanthrope? The Myth of the Biological Desert The Ancestral Bond between early humans, ravens, and foxes Crows and Grudges Stepping Stones in the Concrete The Epidemiological Triangle The Illusion of AI Connection The Museum of MemoryEpisode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast
- Jun 16, 202622 min
How does architecture shape the way we think, learn & remember? SALWA & SELMA MIKOU
Salwa and Selma Mikou are the founders of Paris-based Mikou Architecture. Born in Fez, Morocco and educated in Paris, they have spent the last two decades reimagining the relationship between the built environment and the cultural landscape.After honing their craft under two of the world’s most iconic architects, Jean Nouvel and Renzo Piano, they founded their own studio. For them, architecture is a living interaction with landscape and what they call the Atlas of Resonance, interpreting the hidden layers of a territory, geology, memory, and craft. It is a philosophy that rejects the generic, seeking instead to weave together technological innovation with local materials. Whether it is a mosque in the north of England or a hybrid innovation hub in a former royal manufactory, their work asks a fundamental question: How does space shape the way we think, learn and remember? They were selected by Rem Koolhaas to represent Morocco at the Venice Biennale. Most recently, they were commissioned by Hermès to create a 17,000-square-meter facility that bridges industrial performance with poetic expression. At the heart of their practice is a belief that architecture is not just about building—it’s about shaping relationships: between people, between past and future, between technology and craft. Architecture as a Living Transformation The Intuitive Knowledge of Living Art Preserving the Human Core of Expression The Medina and the Geometry of Childhood The Social Spaces of Rooftops The Twin Dynamic and Confrontation with 'l'autre' Contextual Echoes & Traces of the Site The Temples of Water The Mosque as Pure Spatiality Building Culture with Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Bergé The Wast ed-dar (وسط الدار) and the Heart of a Building The Smells and Sounds of Home Balance, Nature, and SisterhoodEpisode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast
- Apr 30, 202635 min
From Extraction to Regeneration: Redesigning Our Relationship with Nature
Today, we examine how we will adapt to a changing climate and learn to listen to the Earth. Abrahm Lustgarten(Reporter, ProPublica) Jon Gertner (Author, The Ice at the End of the World) Bill Hare (CEO, Climate Analytics) Rob Nixon (Prof. Environmental Humanities, Princeton) Louis de Jaeger (Co-founder, Food Forest Institute) Kathleen Rogers (Pres., EarthDay.org) Rebecca Tickell (Filmmaker, Groundswell) Ben Goldfarb (Author, Crossings) Jane Madgwick (CEO, Plantlife International) Jason deCaires Taylor (Sculptor, Underwater Museums) William McDonough (Architect, Cradle to Cradle) Euan Nisbet(Scientist, Royal Holloway) Roland Geyer (Author, The Business of Less) Ron Gonen (CEO, Closed Loop Partners) Paul Shrivastava (Co-President, Club of Rome) Carlo Ratti (Architect, Dir., MIT Senseable City Lab) Osprey Orielle Lake (Founder, WECAN) Liza Featherstone (Journalist) Yolanda Kakabadse (Fmr. President, WWF)For more, listen to their full interviewsEpisode Site: https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews-featured/anth-regen
- Apr 18, 202622 min
Why Do We Listen to the Talkers More Than the Builders Saving the Planet? - TOM CHI
Why does our economy treat environmental destruction as an inevitable side effect rather than a massive design flaw? How can shifting our focus from polarizing "talkers" to practical "builders" literally save the planet? We are repeatedly told that the climate crisis is too vast and volatile to solve, but what if the true obstacle is simply bad design?Tom Chi is a physicist, designer, inventor, and investor whose work has shaped everything from Google Glass and rapid prototyping at Google X to some of the most ambitious climate technologies being built today. He’s now the founding partner of At One Ventures, where he invests in deep-tech companies focused on a bold goal: a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.Tom’s new book, Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future, reframes economics itself—not as a fixed law, but as a design discipline that can be reimagined to align with the physical realities of our planet. Drawing on science, systems thinking, and lessons from nature, the book offers a grounded, practical framework for moving beyond both climate doom and empty optimism—and toward real, regenerative solutions. Today’s conversation is about what Tom calls the 4Cs: Capital, Compassion, Climate, and Community—but also about agency, responsibility, and what becomes possible when we stop treating the future as something that happens to us and start designing it deliberately.0:00) Build Integrity: Choosing Builders Over TalkersWhy prioritizing those who physically create solutions over those who merely debate them is essential for systemic change Overcoming Powerlessness Through Creativity, Critical Thinking, Community CompassionUtilizing a specific framework of portable skills to move from climate anxiety into meaningful, iterative action Capital Misallocation: Taxing What We Want to SeeA critique of current tax structures that burden labor while under-taxing capital and failing to serve societal needs The Volatility Gap: Why Average Temperatures MisleadUnderstanding why increasing climate volatility—rather than just average temperature rise—is the true driver of human distress Economics As Design: Redesigning The Global EngineMoving beyond "physics envy" in economics to treat the global market as a discipline that can be redesigned for better outcomes Depth Over Breadth: Reforming Education Through Experience Local Resilience: How Cities Can Lead The TransformationPractical, block-by-block strategies for urban adaptation, from expanding tree canopies to improving household efficiency AI and Robotics in Agriculture Human-Centric AI: Flipping The Priority Of Automation Thinking In Pictures: A Language Beyond WordsEpisode Website<a target="_blank" rel
- Apr 1, 202619 min
Listening to the Living World: Ami Vitale, Yann Martel, Carl Safina, David George Haskell & Others on Climate Change & The Rights of Nature
Today, we hear from writers Yann Martel, Carl Safina and David George Haskell on the practice of listening to the living world. Tom Chi discusses the dangerous volatility of a one-degree shift. Clayton Aldern explores how climate change alters brain health and behavior, while Ami Vitale,Osprey Orielle Lake and Martín Von Hildebrand remind us of the kinship we share with nature. Fred Pearce discusses 40 years as a journalist reporting on climate from around the world, while Richard Black of the environmental think tank Ember and Paula Pinho, European Commission’s Chief Spokesperson, talk about policy, hope and the radical empathy required to protect the planet for future generations. Clayton Page Aldern – Finding awe and beauty in the world David George Haskell – On consequences of humans tuning out the sounds of the living world Yann Martel – How animals ask us to step out of our humanity Carl Safina – The interior lives of non-human animals Ami Vitale – Environmental collapse and human conflict Martín von Hildebrand – Indigenous views of nature Richard Black – Transition to clean energy vs. massive fossil fuel subsidies Tom Chi – Climate destabilization Paula Pinho – Europe’s vision for energy independence Osprey Orielle Lake – Māori concept of "I am the river and the river is me” Bill Hare – On limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Fred Pearce – Finding hope in nature’s resilienceTo hear more from each guest, listen to their full interviews.Episode Website<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.creativeproce
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