Category: Podcast
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4 — Sara Hendren
This week, I talk with Sara Hendren about the role of art in engineering and design, and how we can make use of unresolved questions, ambiguity and productive uncertainty, to make things that better serve human needs. Sara teaches socially-engaged design practices, adaptive and assistive technology design, and disability studies for engineers-in-training in her role…
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3 — Chris Schwarz
This episode features the woodworker, writer and publisher Chris Schwarz. Chris runs the small publishing company, Lost Art Press, which specialises in finely made books on hand-working practices. He uncovers historical texts that show us forgotten ways of working, and also publishes new work, such as The Anarchist’s Design Book, that show the continuing relevance…
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2 — Will Holman and Pascal Anson
In this episode I talk to two guests who share an interest in remaking the world around them, First, we head over to Baltimore, to meet Will Holman, whose book, Guerrilla Furniture Design, is a handbook for the resourceful, nomadic maker. Then we come back to London, to meet Pascal Anson, a designer who specialises…
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1 — Deb Chachra
We talk about the work of the pioneering scientist, feminist and educator, Ursula Franklin, whose book, The Real World of Technology, helps us understand how things are made in modern systems of manufacturing, and how the technology of manufacturing has changed relations in the workplace. We also talk about what motivates people to make; mundane…
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Looking Sideways Series 2
Hello, and welcome back to Looking Sideways. I took a long hiatus after the first series, but now I’m back with a new series of interviews focusing on making. In this series, I set out to explore the world of making from the individual craftsperson, to the mass manufacture of products. I wanted to understand the…
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11 – Mitch Altman
In a special episode of Looking Sideways, I talk with inventor, hackspace evangelist and all-round legend, Mitch Altman, about how he became a maker, the origins of the pioneering Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco, the enduring appeal of the soldering iron, how to start your own hackerspace … and of course, the importance of doing…
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10 — Ross Atkin
How do humans create order out of chaos? Why are we always tidying up? And why doesn’t nature bother? What can we learn from natural systems about creating meaning in the physical world, and what’s this got to do with the internet of things?
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9 — Christian Hambly
In this episode, I talk to Christian Hambly, and we explore that territory seemingly always on the geek horizon: Coffee. From espresso machines to domestic brew methods, denaturation to decaffeination, John Gruber to George Clooney, we map out pretty much the whole domain in 55 minutes. If you’re a long-standing coffee nut (‘bean’?), my ill-informed…
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8 — Sarah Angliss
Sarah Angliss is a composer and performer, writer and historian, roboticist and maker of musical instruments and automata. I caught up with her in the basement of Bom-Banes café in Brighton’s Kemp Town to find out what lies behind her eerie performances and historically-influenced music. We talked about the discomfort of new technology, and nostalgia…
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7 — Emma Rose Metcalfe
Emma Rose Metcalfe is the co-founder of How.Do, an app and platform that lets you share how to do things. We spoke about the user experience of sharing. How does sharing projects stop us from doing projects? How can we share collaborative experiences? Who holds the camera? How do constraints improve the sharing experience? And…
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