Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan - AZBY BROWN - Highlights

Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan - AZBY BROWN - Highlights

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Author of Just Enough · Small Spaces · Lead Researcher for Safecast
Authority on Japanese Architecture, Design & Environmentalism

In Edo Japan, basically life was pretty good, and they recycled everything. Everything was reused, upcycled. Waste was considered taboo. A person who was wasting was considered an ugly person. So there’s a lot that we could talk about design, the layout, scale. Buildings were rarely taller than two storeys. Very good use of environmental features, microclimates, use of wind for cooling, passive solar heating. Good use of planting, gardens, etc. But regarding cities of the future, I think the main thing is it needs to be a place where people feel like they belong and want to take responsibility.


AZBY BROWN - Author of Just Enough - Leading authority on Japanese architecture, design & environmentalism - Lead researcher for Safecast

AZBY BROWN - Author of Just Enough - Leading authority on Japanese architecture, design & environmentalism - Lead researcher for Safecast

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Author of Just Enough · Small Spaces · Lead Researcher for Safecast
Authority on Japanese Architecture, Design & Environmentalism

In Edo Japan, basically life was pretty good, and they recycled everything. Everything was reused, upcycled. Waste was considered taboo. A person who was wasting was considered an ugly person. So there’s a lot that we could talk about design, the layout, scale. Buildings were rarely taller than two storeys. Very good use of environmental features, microclimates, use of wind for cooling, passive solar heating. Good use of planting, gardens, etc. But regarding cities of the future, I think the main thing is it needs to be a place where people feel like they belong and want to take responsibility.


A Journey Through Art: IAN WARDROPPER's Vision for The Frick Collection - Highlights

A Journey Through Art: IAN WARDROPPER's Vision for The Frick Collection - Highlights

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Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director · The Frick Collection

I firmly believe that the arts should be a part of everybody's education. It's not just learning the history of art, but it's about opening up creativity as a means that can be useful to somebody throughout one's life.

Masterpieces Unveiled: IAN WARDROPPER - Director of The Frick Collection

Masterpieces Unveiled: IAN WARDROPPER - Director of The Frick Collection

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Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director · The Frick Collection

I firmly believe that the arts should be a part of everybody's education. It's not just learning the history of art, but it's about opening up creativity as a means that can be useful to somebody throughout one's life.

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 2)

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 2)

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Art and Theater Director, Costume Designer

Creativity is perhaps the ultimate mystery. I veer wildly between opposing views on it and have different feelings depending on whether the creator is isolated or a collaborator.

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 1)

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 1)

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Art and Theater Director, Costume Designer

Creativity is perhaps the ultimate mystery. I veer wildly between opposing views on it and have different feelings depending on whether the creator is isolated or a collaborator.

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 2)

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 2)

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Art and Theater Director, Costume Designer

Creativity is perhaps the ultimate mystery. I veer wildly between opposing views on it and have different feelings depending on whether the creator is isolated or a collaborator.

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 1)

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 1)

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Art and Theater Director, Costume Designer

Creativity is perhaps the ultimate mystery. I veer wildly between opposing views on it and have different feelings depending on whether the creator is isolated or a collaborator.

All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told w/ DOUGLAS WOLK - Highlights

All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told w/ DOUGLAS WOLK - Highlights

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Author of NYTimes bestseller All of the Marvels, Eisner Award–winning Reading Comics
Host of the Voice of Latveria podcast

I like the idea that your actions in the world can be motivated by both idealism and realism about how to achieve those ideals. I like the idea that morality is not simple. There is this idea that there are the heroes and there's the villains and you can easily tell who's who, and that's not so true as it used to be in comics and that's meaningful. One thing that is interesting about the Marvel story is there’s basically nobody who's just a bad guy to be a bad guy. Everyone has their reasons. Almost everyone is capable of redemption in some way, even the worst of the worst are capable of tremendous heroism and tremendous idealism and genuinely wanting to heal the world make it a better place.

DOUGLAS WOLK - Eisner Award–winner & Author of NYTimes bestseller All of the Marvels

DOUGLAS WOLK - Eisner Award–winner & Author of NYTimes bestseller All of the Marvels

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Author of NYTimes bestseller All of the Marvels, Eisner Award–winning Reading Comics
Host of the Voice of Latveria podcast

I like the idea that your actions in the world can be motivated by both idealism and realism about how to achieve those ideals. I like the idea that morality is not simple. There is this idea that there are the heroes and there's the villains and you can easily tell who's who, and that's not so true as it used to be in comics and that's meaningful. One thing that is interesting about the Marvel story is there’s basically nobody who's just a bad guy to be a bad guy. Everyone has their reasons. Almost everyone is capable of redemption in some way, even the worst of the worst are capable of tremendous heroism and tremendous idealism and genuinely wanting to heal the world make it a better place.

Shared Histories: Voices of the Shinnecock Indian Nation - Highlights

Shared Histories: Voices of the Shinnecock Indian Nation - Highlights

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We're all part of a web like a dreamcatcher. Everybody knows a dreamcatcher and whatever you do that’s wrong will eventually come back and affect you because we’re all connected.

SHINNECOCK INDIAN NATION

SHINNECOCK INDIAN NATION

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We're all part of a web like a dreamcatcher. Everybody knows a dreamcatcher and whatever you do that’s wrong will eventually come back and affect you because we’re all connected.

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture with VALERIE STEELE - Director, Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture with VALERIE STEELE - Director, Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

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Director & Chief Curator · Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

Like many of us, I was always personally interested in fashion as a means of communication and masquerade, but it was in graduate school when a classmate of mine did a report on two scholarly articles about the Victorian corset that I suddenly had an epiphany, and I realized that fashion was a part of culture, and I could study fashion history.

Behind the Lens: MARK SELIGER on 20 Years of Photographing Cultural Icons

Behind the Lens: MARK SELIGER on 20 Years of Photographing Cultural Icons

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Photographer

I always tell people the worst picture can ever take is one you don't take. And that is a simple philosophy. If you don't go out there and do the work, then you will never know. You may think there's going to be another great snowstorm. You might think there's going to be another great moment where a block is going to have a certain kind of rhythm or a culture is going to have a certain amount of innocence or a musician is going to be as reluctant or vulnerable or sympathetic. You just have to embrace the moment and do the work.

JOHN MARCIARI - Morgan Library & Museum - Engelhard Curator & Head of Dept.of Drawings & Prints - Highlights

JOHN MARCIARI - Morgan Library & Museum - Engelhard Curator & Head of Dept.of Drawings & Prints - Highlights

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Charles W. Engelhard Curator and Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints
The Morgan Library & Museum

So that idea of what the drawings tell us about the artist is another thing that's constantly interesting to me. You, maybe more so than a finished painting, get a sense of what problems an artist is trying to work out along the way.

Finding Home in Nature - CLAUDIA BUENO on Art, Travel and Immersive Experiences - Highlights

Finding Home in Nature - CLAUDIA BUENO on Art, Travel and Immersive Experiences - Highlights

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Artist in Light, Sculpture & Sound

Nature is my home because. It doesn't matter where I am. It’s available and it's there and it's always giving me the same sort of nourishment. All of us have had to develop a sense of home elsewhere. With me in particular, I've been traveling and living in different countries for the last 20 years since I was 22, so it's not even that I've had a geographical place that is my new home because I've moved around every four years. I'm in a new place a new community and new friends, so nature is my home.

CLAUDIA BUENO - Artist in Light, Sculpture and Sound

CLAUDIA BUENO - Artist in Light, Sculpture and Sound

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Artist in Light, Sculpture & Sound

Nature is my home because. It doesn't matter where I am. It’s available and it's there and it's always giving me the same sort of nourishment. All of us have had to develop a sense of home elsewhere. With me in particular, I've been traveling and living in different countries for the last 20 years since I was 22, so it's not even that I've had a geographical place that is my new home because I've moved around every four years. I'm in a new place a new community and new friends, so nature is my home.

Award-Winning Photographer ETINOSA YVONNE on Documenting Human Stories & Social Injustice

Award-Winning Photographer ETINOSA YVONNE on Documenting Human Stories & Social Injustice

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Photographer & Videographer
Winner of the World Press Photo 6*6 Global talent in Africa 2020

I’m not just taking beautiful pictures. I’m collecting their voices, collecting their movement, collecting different aspects, and preserving this moment because they will not always be here. I don’t just see myself as a photographer, an artist. I also see myself as an archiver. Someone who is archiving as a researcher.

Europe, Asia, and the World: IAN BURUMA - Chronicling Culture, Politics & History - Highlghts

Europe, Asia, and the World: IAN BURUMA - Chronicling Culture, Politics & History - Highlghts

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Ian Buruma is the author of many books, including A Tokyo Romance, The Churchill Complex,Their Promised Land, Year Zero, The China Lover, Murder in Amsterdam, Occidentalism and God’s Dust. He teaches at Bard College and is a columnist for Project Syndicate and contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other publications. He was awarded the 2008 Erasmus Prize for making "an especially important contribution to European culture" and was voted one of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals by the Foreign Policy magazine.

This interview was conducted by Mia Funk & Lexi Kayser with the participation of collaborating universities and students. Digital Media Coordinator is Phoebe Brous.

Mia Funk is an artist, interviewer and founder of The Creative Process & One Planet Podcast (Conversations about Climate Change & Environmental Solutions).

IAN BURUMA - Public Intellectual & Erasmus Prize-Winning Author of The Churchill Complex, Murder in Amsterdam, A Tokyo Romance

IAN BURUMA - Public Intellectual & Erasmus Prize-Winning Author of The Churchill Complex, Murder in Amsterdam, A Tokyo Romance

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Ian Buruma is the author of many books, including A Tokyo Romance, The Churchill Complex,Their Promised Land, Year Zero, The China Lover, Murder in Amsterdam, Occidentalism and God’s Dust. He teaches at Bard College and is a columnist for Project Syndicate and contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other publications. He was awarded the 2008 Erasmus Prize for making "an especially important contribution to European culture" and was voted one of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals by the Foreign Policy magazine.

This interview was conducted by Mia Funk & Lexi Kayser with the participation of collaborating universities and students. Digital Media Coordinator is Phoebe Brous.

Mia Funk is an artist, interviewer and founder of The Creative Process & One Planet Podcast (Conversations about Climate Change & Environmental Solutions).