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This week is a conversation with architects Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy about 'Geostories - Another Architecture for the Environment'.

This week is a conversation with the architect Filip Tejchman about the recent book by Michael Pollan 'How to Change Your Mind, What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence'.

Rob DeSalle is curator at the American Museum of Natural History & author of 'Our Senses, An Immersive Experience'.

Today is a conversation with Bryan Norwood who recently guest edited Log 42 (winter/spring 2018) entitled "Disorienting Phenomenology." Bryan Norwood is completing his PhD at Harvard University in the History and Theory of Architecture.

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This episode is a conversation about the work of the author Ursula Le Guin with Sing Yun Lee and Francis Gene-Rowe (both members of The London Science Fiction Research Community)

This week is a conversation with philosopher Graham Harman. We talk about his introduction of Object Oriented Ontology (or OOO) and it's potential influence on the discipline of architecture.

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Mario Carpo is the Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett, UCL, London & author of the article "Post-Digital "Quitters": Why the Shift Toward Collage Is Worrying".

His latest monograph is, The Second Digital Turn: Design Beyond Intelligence, has just been published by the MIT Press.

I'm happy to say that today's guests are two friends - architects Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno of Future Cities Lab. Future Cities Lab is an experimental art and Design studio in Francisco, CA.

Since 2005, founders Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno have collaborated on a range of cutting-edge projects exploring the intersections of art and design with public space, performance, advanced fabrication technologies, robotics, and responsive building systems.

This week I'm talking with Chris Thomas, professor of conservation biology at the University of York in the UK and author of the recent book 'Inheritors of the Earth, How Nature is Thriving in an Age of Extinction'. His numerous articles and academic works make him one of the world's most influential ecologists, and his research has been covered on the front pages of the Guardian and Washington Post. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2012, received Marsh Awards for Climate Change Research in 2011 and for Conservation Biology in 2004, and was awarded the prestigious British Ecological Society President's Medal in 2001.

This week is a conversation with chemist and author Kathryn Harkup about her book 'Making the Monster, The Science behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'. Kathryn completed a doctorate on her favorite chemicals, phosphines, and went on to further postdoctoral research before realizing that talking, writing and demonstrating science appealed a bit more that hours slaving over a hot fume-hood. She currently writes a monthly poison blog for the Guardian and gives regular public talks on the disgusting and dangerous side of science. Kathryn's first book was the international best-seller 'A is for Arsenic', which was shortlisted for a Mystery Readers International Macavity Award and a BMA Book Award.