James Carpenter: Following the Thread

I was impressed with James Carpenter from the beginning. Not merely because of his body of work or that he brought great ideas to our project. Quality speaks for itself. It was because he was open and approachable. That he was free of the need to impress is what impressed me the most. At the time I was living in Qatar, working on a fancy urban redevelopment scheme with teams of accomplished architects, engineers, planners, and construction-related consultants of every stripe. Among this esteemed, designerly crowd Jamie’s approachability was a rare trait, which made it all the more notable. We only met briefly but this impression stuck with me. When we fortuitously crossed paths a few years later in a TriBeCa coffee shop I had no reservations about re-introducing myself. And when I pitched him on it, the fact that he agreed to take part in this new Deviation thing was testament to his openness.
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Nikki Pope – the intersecting life as a performer and entrepreneur

Nikki Pope is a British Singer/ Songwriter. Her first EP 'Electric Energy' was released in May 2016 and caught the attention of the BBC and America's prestigious radio network 'SiriusXM' gaining her national and international coverage. Her music has been played across the world through Radio and TV with coverage on ITV's 'This Morning' hosted by Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield. Nikki became a BBC Introducing Artist back in May 2016 and was described as an 'artist who's debuting track caused a stir' and that her music was 'the best music from a new artist we've ever played'. Shortly after, Nikki went on to perform a live session at New York City's SiriusXM in their famous 'fishbowl' studio following interviews with the very notable Larry Flick and 'America's Next Top Model's' very own Nigel Barker. The second EP 'Karma Deja Vu' came about in February 2017 followed by sold out show's where music bloggers gave rave reviews and within a month 'Richer Unsigned' made her 'Artist of the Week' and soon swept up spotlight features on 'Reverb Nation'. She made her mark in the USA with three sold out show's on Broadway in the famous Iridium Jazz Club and at the Triad Theatre. Duetting with Academy and Emmy Award winning actor, Danny Aiello, Nikki teamed up to cover the well known song 'Feeling Good' which would later open her second show on the 'Great White Way’. Pope is also a successful entrepreneur, founding three successful businesses in the past five years.
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Florescence – Synarchy in Business

Is it possible for a new business structure to combat rampant forces of corporate and technological control over society? This episode presents a conceptual business structure that not only rewards each contributor in direct proportion to their individual efforts, but through the application of blockchain technology contains the potential to be scaled to a limitless degree. Imagine a future where workers are not merely employees but stakeholders in the collective wealth of the overall, where the governing technologies are not owned by individuals with dubious motives, and arguments about capitalism versus socialism become irrelevant. Welcome to synarchy.
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Merlin ‘Otto’ Marquart

Reposting an interview from the Deviation vault, a conversation with Merlin ‘Otto’ Marquart in 2016. He recently passed away and this conversation was an experience that meant a lot to me and has continued to have an impact on me in the years since. PODCAST INFO: Podcast Website: https://deviation.us/podcast/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/topography/id1660417550 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6d3T0ksWlKuZxiQ75MXcOn Full Episode on Youtube: @topography_podcast Rumble: https://rumble.com/v5f2429-merlin-otto-marquart.html Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1f374f6a-3193-4c99-aad6-0f04297352ae/topography Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kYmRkYTQ5Yy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwje0K-A8M39AhWGOEQIHZUFCq8Q9sEGegQIARAC Pocketcasts: https://pca.st/7hu9c5c6 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dbdda49c/podcast/rss SOCIAL: Instagram: @Ashley.Hoden LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-hoden-67936b10a/ Twitter: @Ashley_Hoden Substack: https://ashleyhoden.substack.com/ Support on Patreon: https://patreon.com/Topography
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Chuck Thompson – Status and its Evolving Nature and Role in Society

Chuck Thompson is an author, editor, and Peabody Award winning journalist, and we discuss his most recent book, The Status Revolution: The Improbably Story of How the Lowbrow Became The Highbrow.
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Lisa Dale Norton – Shimmering Images and the Art of Memoir

Lisa Dale Norton is an author, editor, and speaker, and we discuss the art of writing memoir and narrative nonfiction.
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Bradley Cantrell – Machine Learning, AI, and our Responsive Ecological Future

Addressing the synthesis of computation and ecology, Bradley Cantrell develops and designs devices and infrastructures that create complex interrelationships between maintenance, evolved processes, and environmental response. This approach specifically addresses the interface between old modes of representation and direct connections to ecological processes. In collaboration with co-author Justine Holzman, Cantrell published Responsive Landscapes by Routledge in the Fall of 2015 entitled. Responsive Landscapes highlights a range of case studies in architecture, landscape architecture, computer science, and art that employ responsive technologies as mediators of landscape processes.
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Bradford McKee

Bradford McKee is a journalist and former Editor-in-Chief of Landscape Architecture Magazine. He previously worked at The New York Times, Washington City Paper, and Architecture Magazine, among others. His most recent article about the variety, beauty, utility, and amazingness of sedges is featured in this months issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. We also talk oaks and insects and all kinds of good stuff. Refine your aesthetic, bro!
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Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn is the founder of Shelter Publications, which he has run from his home in Bolinas, CA for nearly five decades. Shelter has published several widely selling books about fitness and DIY homebuilding, and Lloyd writes the Gimme Shelter newsletter and runs a blog showcasing his interests and photos people share from their DIY homes. With his wife Lesley, Lloyd built the home they live and work from. Lloyd's origins in publishing extend to his time in the Air Force in the 1950s, and as the Shelter Editor for The Whole Earth Catalog in the 1960s. An advocate for working with one's hands, Lloyd's pursuit of his interests and beliefs has coalesced into a well-rounded advocation, and life.
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Matthew Gandy

Matthew Gandy is a geographer, urban field ecologist, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. He is Professor of Geography and Fellow of King’s College at the University of Cambridge.
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Casey Lance Brown

From mapping potential woolly mammoth habitats for Colossal to researching economic speculation in ancient Rome, or ongoing efforts to mine asteroids in space, or discussing his artwork related to kudzu's historical uses and our cultural perceptions of the plant, this discussion with Casey Lance Brown covers a broad range of exciting terrain!