• “I’ve been working with aging bodies for probably ten years. I started off making work in undergrad with my grandmother and my mother. Through that, I ended up making work with my grandmother's buddies, my mom's buddies, and I thought of that work as queer — creating a queer relationship with these women and their sexuality...I’m focusing on the women who provided kinship to me — not in a family way — queer kin. I’m looking for lineage isn't the straight relationship what I learned from women before me — what I would learn from queer women, rather than what I would learn from familial relationships. I was thinking a lot about inheriting trauma and inheriting, quite literally, a gender expression from my mother and grandmother. I was fascinated by this thing we would all do — or the thing they were upset I wasn't doing…I’m not trying to make like a Dove Beauty campaign. I'm trying to walk the line of understanding that this can be empowering for them, but I'm more interested in what leisure would look like if women aged 60+ were unbothered by the weight of the world.” Hear more about Samantha Nye's art on our podcast on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 3: A New Opulence with @samantha_nye_studio ⛲
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    “I’ve been working with aging bodies for probably ten years. I started off making work in undergrad with my grandmother and my mother. Through that, I ended up making work with my grandmother's buddies, my mom's buddies, and I thought of that work as queer — creating a queer relationship with these women and their sexuality...I’m focusing on the women who provided kinship to me — not in a family way — queer kin. I’m looking for lineage isn't the straight relationship what I learned from women before me — what I would learn from queer women, rather than what I would learn from familial relationships. I was thinking a lot about inheriting trauma and inheriting, quite literally, a gender expression from my mother and grandmother. I was fascinated by this thing we would all do — or the thing they were upset I wasn't doing…I’m not trying to make like a Dove Beauty campaign. I'm trying to walk the line of understanding that this can be empowering for them, but I'm more interested in what leisure would look like if women aged 60+ were unbothered by the weight of the world.” Hear more about Samantha Nye's art on our podcast on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 3: A New Opulence with @samantha_nye_studio ⛲
  • “I make paintings and videos. Both aspects of my work approach utopia through the remaking of pop culture from the 60s. They do that by filling up the spaces of those pop cultural images with utopia full of queer women and trans-inclusive lesbian spaces. I'm a queer Jewish woman, but not a religious Jewish woman, but you can't take that cultural Judaism out of a gal. The elders in my family influenced my work. I’m trying to make an ideal future. I would like a queer women’s pool party to go on when I'm 60, 70 and 80, and hopefully 90. I'm trying to make that happen and at least image it.” Hear more about Samantha Nye's fun poolside paintings featuring elderly women, including her mother, grandmother, their lifelong friends and elders from her queer community on our podcast on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 3: A New Opulence with @samantha_nye_studio 👙
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    “I make paintings and videos. Both aspects of my work approach utopia through the remaking of pop culture from the 60s. They do that by filling up the spaces of those pop cultural images with utopia full of queer women and trans-inclusive lesbian spaces. I'm a queer Jewish woman, but not a religious Jewish woman, but you can't take that cultural Judaism out of a gal. The elders in my family influenced my work. I’m trying to make an ideal future. I would like a queer women’s pool party to go on when I'm 60, 70 and 80, and hopefully 90. I'm trying to make that happen and at least image it.” Hear more about Samantha Nye's fun poolside paintings featuring elderly women, including her mother, grandmother, their lifelong friends and elders from her queer community on our podcast on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 3: A New Opulence with @samantha_nye_studio 👙
  • Today on our podcast: Florida-born painter and video maker Samantha Nye on reenactment, performance, identity. Through her paintings and videos, Nye highlights aging bodies, celebrates queer kinship, and facilitates an intergenerational dialogue between queer womxn and their mothers and grandmothers. Samantha's tongue-in-cheek paintings feature elderly womxn, including her mother, grandmother, their life-long friends, and elders of her communities lounging and at leisure. Her paintings and videos are designed as love letters to queer spaces past, present, and future. She imagines an ideal future while also referencing queer legacies and failures. She mashes up incongruent luxurious references like Slim Aarons photographs of the 1960s, lesbian separatist spaces of the 1970s, bat mitzvah parties from the 1990s, and the Miami club scene of the early 2000's. Listen to the whole thing on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 3: A New Opulence with Samantha Nye 🏳️‍🌈 https://soundcloud.com/futureprairie/opulence 💋
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    Today on our podcast: Florida-born painter and video maker Samantha Nye on reenactment, performance, identity. Through her paintings and videos, Nye highlights aging bodies, celebrates queer kinship, and facilitates an intergenerational dialogue between queer womxn and their mothers and grandmothers. Samantha's tongue-in-cheek paintings feature elderly womxn, including her mother, grandmother, their life-long friends, and elders of her communities lounging and at leisure. Her paintings and videos are designed as love letters to queer spaces past, present, and future. She imagines an ideal future while also referencing queer legacies and failures. She mashes up incongruent luxurious references like Slim Aarons photographs of the 1960s, lesbian separatist spaces of the 1970s, bat mitzvah parties from the 1990s, and the Miami club scene of the early 2000's. Listen to the whole thing on iTunes or Soundcloud — Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 3: A New Opulence with Samantha Nye 🏳️‍🌈 https://soundcloud.com/futureprairie/opulence 💋
  • If you've hung around any of the Future Prairie artist fam this year, you've likely heard our mantra/catchphrase keep dreamin and schemin. 🍂 It gets to the heart of what we're after, and we're pleased as punch to share with you our first official FP merch. Mugs, hats, and tote bags are $20 each, and all proceeds go towards funding our podcast highlighting marginalized voices in the arts. ♥️ Venmo or Square Cash @futureprairie to grab yours today. 🌊
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    If you've hung around any of the Future Prairie artist fam this year, you've likely heard our mantra/catchphrase keep dreamin and schemin. 🍂 It gets to the heart of what we're after, and we're pleased as punch to share with you our first official FP merch. Mugs, hats, and tote bags are $20 each, and all proceeds go towards funding our podcast highlighting marginalized voices in the arts. ♥️ Venmo or Square Cash @futureprairie to grab yours today. 🌊
  • Today on the podcast: artist, musician, composer, producer, and total dreamboat @emilywellsmusic , who’s known for her queer, political, classical/modern hybrid instrumentation. Her art bridges pop and chamber music and explores concepts around human relation to the natural world, rooted in love for both. Her short films and projections weave poetic imagery of contemporary dance, extreme weather and effects of climate crisis, and protest footage from the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic. Emily’s latest album, This World is Too _____ For You, was released last March and has been hailed by NPR as “breathtaking” “mind-blowing” and “visionary”. I sat down with Emily before one of her concerts for a conversation about art and the future. ⛲ Listen to the whole thing on iTunes or Soundcloud! Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 2: To Live More Closely with Emily Wells 🌀
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    Today on the podcast: artist, musician, composer, producer, and total dreamboat @emilywellsmusic , who’s known for her queer, political, classical/modern hybrid instrumentation. Her art bridges pop and chamber music and explores concepts around human relation to the natural world, rooted in love for both. Her short films and projections weave poetic imagery of contemporary dance, extreme weather and effects of climate crisis, and protest footage from the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic. Emily’s latest album, This World is Too _____ For You, was released last March and has been hailed by NPR as “breathtaking” “mind-blowing” and “visionary”. I sat down with Emily before one of her concerts for a conversation about art and the future. ⛲ Listen to the whole thing on iTunes or Soundcloud! Future Prairie Radio Season 2 Episode 2: To Live More Closely with Emily Wells 🌀
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  • Season 2 of our podcast is now live! Musician and creative coder Helen Spencer Wallace discusses memory, vulnerability, resilience, healing, and how she made her interactive sculpture, the Brain Shrine. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio S2E1: Brain Shrine with Helen Spencer Wallace ▶️🎶⏳ photo by @_clamber_
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    Season 2 of our podcast is now live! Musician and creative coder Helen Spencer Wallace discusses memory, vulnerability, resilience, healing, and how she made her interactive sculpture, the Brain Shrine. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio S2E1: Brain Shrine with Helen Spencer Wallace ▶️🎶⏳ photo by @_clamber_
  • all in on Season Two 💗
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    all in on Season Two 💗
  • I've been having a great time working on Season Two of Future Prairie Radio. Lots of fun podcast content coming your way this autumn. 💘 Thank you to @sarahsarahturnerturner for welcoming me into the beautiful and healing creation space that was pink noise iii 🏩
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    I've been having a great time working on Season Two of Future Prairie Radio. Lots of fun podcast content coming your way this autumn. 💘 Thank you to @sarahsarahturnerturner for welcoming me into the beautiful and healing creation space that was pink noise iii 🏩
  • Today on the podcast, mixed reality digital collage artist Laura Camila Medina dives into the personal history and process behind her work on uprooting and migration. Inspired by memories of Colombia, her mother’s arepas, and her father’s soundtracks, her work has been shown at the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, PLANETA New York, and the Nat Turner Project. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 12: Memory Palace with Laura Camila Medina. 🎨 @lil___lau
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    Today on the podcast, mixed reality digital collage artist Laura Camila Medina dives into the personal history and process behind her work on uprooting and migration. Inspired by memories of Colombia, her mother’s arepas, and her father’s soundtracks, her work has been shown at the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, PLANETA New York, and the Nat Turner Project. Listen to the whole episode on iTunes or Soundcloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 12: Memory Palace with Laura Camila Medina. 🎨 @lil___lau
  • “I work top down. I’ll get a concept first. One of my songs was based on a fluctuating passage that would change in length, expand and contract, a pulsating, living musical unit. Each album took about a year. I would write and rewrite and rewrite the songs. Yes, it sounds chaotic. It sounds like listening to four different songs at once, but I think it creates a larger union, a multiplicity of meanings, a completely new synthesis. It’s an exciting time of inventing new art forms. Now I’m writing a progressive metal album. If you have a song in your heart, write it, don't think about it too much. The only way to get better is by creating, not necessarily for yourself, but without expectation, without trying to be somebody else. Take what works, cut out what doesn’t work. What's left is a new and unique artistic language that you have created for yourself, that other people can then start drawing from. Art is something that brings people together. — musician and mathematician Vivian Tylinska on her Russian futurism inspired transcendental black metal project, Victory Over the Sun. Hear the whole podcast episode on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 11: Victory Over the Sun.
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    “I work top down. I’ll get a concept first. One of my songs was based on a fluctuating passage that would change in length, expand and contract, a pulsating, living musical unit. Each album took about a year. I would write and rewrite and rewrite the songs. Yes, it sounds chaotic. It sounds like listening to four different songs at once, but I think it creates a larger union, a multiplicity of meanings, a completely new synthesis. It’s an exciting time of inventing new art forms. Now I’m writing a progressive metal album. If you have a song in your heart, write it, don't think about it too much. The only way to get better is by creating, not necessarily for yourself, but without expectation, without trying to be somebody else. Take what works, cut out what doesn’t work. What's left is a new and unique artistic language that you have created for yourself, that other people can then start drawing from. Art is something that brings people together. — musician and mathematician Vivian Tylinska on her Russian futurism inspired transcendental black metal project, Victory Over the Sun. Hear the whole podcast episode on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 11: Victory Over the Sun.
  • I like to make music that is complicated...to use math, to use the ideas that were developing in the 20th century in classical music using the language of metal. There is definitely correlation between math and music in terms of music being sets of pictures, the frequencies, the way elements interact. Over the last year, I’ve been very interested in microtonal music, which uses notes that are not the 12 notes that are most common in Western music. We get different relationships between tones, which gives you different flavors and qualities of chords. That can give you very different range of emotional feelings that don't exist in Western music. There's math in that, the way that you choose the notes, the way that you arrange things. Rhythmically, there are also complicated rhythms that have more large scale structures. What I've been doing this year is, I will take off the frets on a guitar and fill them in and cut new frets in. I use 17 tones instead of the usual 12. You get different flavors. 17 is nice because you can do similar stuff that you can in 12 but there are alien sounds, there are foreign and dissonant sounding intervals, which I think are really interesting. Whenever I show people microtonal music, at first, they’re like, 'This just sounds bad and out of tune.' I’m like, 'No, but it's a different tune!' My solo project is called Victory Over the Sun, which is the name of a Russian futurist opera from 1917. It's designed by this Soviet artist, Kazimir Malevich with text by other Russian futurists. I've been very interested in Russian futurism. Italian futurism was closely associated with fascism, which I absolutely condemn; I have no interest in Italian futurism. Russian futurism is what fascinates me most. I am working on a new project about Kazimir Malevich called 'The Objectless World', based on his ideas about art as pure emotional expression and a non-objective representation of feeling. — musician and mathematician Vivian Tylinska on her Russian futurism inspired transcendental black metal project, Victory Over the Sun. Hear the whole podcast episode on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 11: Victory Over the Sun.
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    I like to make music that is complicated...to use math, to use the ideas that were developing in the 20th century in classical music using the language of metal. There is definitely correlation between math and music in terms of music being sets of pictures, the frequencies, the way elements interact. Over the last year, I’ve been very interested in microtonal music, which uses notes that are not the 12 notes that are most common in Western music. We get different relationships between tones, which gives you different flavors and qualities of chords. That can give you very different range of emotional feelings that don't exist in Western music. There's math in that, the way that you choose the notes, the way that you arrange things. Rhythmically, there are also complicated rhythms that have more large scale structures. What I've been doing this year is, I will take off the frets on a guitar and fill them in and cut new frets in. I use 17 tones instead of the usual 12. You get different flavors. 17 is nice because you can do similar stuff that you can in 12 but there are alien sounds, there are foreign and dissonant sounding intervals, which I think are really interesting. Whenever I show people microtonal music, at first, they’re like, 'This just sounds bad and out of tune.' I’m like, 'No, but it's a different tune!' My solo project is called Victory Over the Sun, which is the name of a Russian futurist opera from 1917. It's designed by this Soviet artist, Kazimir Malevich with text by other Russian futurists. I've been very interested in Russian futurism. Italian futurism was closely associated with fascism, which I absolutely condemn; I have no interest in Italian futurism. Russian futurism is what fascinates me most. I am working on a new project about Kazimir Malevich called 'The Objectless World', based on his ideas about art as pure emotional expression and a non-objective representation of feeling. — musician and mathematician Vivian Tylinska on her Russian futurism inspired transcendental black metal project, Victory Over the Sun. Hear the whole podcast episode on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 11: Victory Over the Sun.
  • In our latest episode, musician and mathematician Vivian Tylinska discusses her Russian futurism inspired transcendental black metal project, Victory Over the Sun. Check out the whole podcast on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 11: Victory Over the Sun with Vivian Tylinska ⚡⚡⚡
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    In our latest episode, musician and mathematician Vivian Tylinska discusses her Russian futurism inspired transcendental black metal project, Victory Over the Sun. Check out the whole podcast on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 11: Victory Over the Sun with Vivian Tylinska ⚡⚡⚡
  • “Why do we say that this small plot is ours? How do we own this thing that’s part of Mother Nature? I was going through thoughts about that, thinking about fencing, property lines, and the American Dream. One association of the American Dream is the white picket fence. I went through online photos and Instagram, and there were people using the white picket fence in hashtags ironically and some people who were not — they really wanted that white picket fence. I made a one-quarter replica, similar to what you could buy at Home Depot, in white porcelain slip (which is a liquid clay). I have one that is a complete and intact white picket fence, and then I have one that's broken. People see it and know the reference one way or the other, whether it's ironic, or not, or complicated.” @cu.studios makes narrative, symbolic ceramic art as well as laser-etched tableware and planters. She’s a student of International Migration and Public Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science and previously worked on the Family Reunification Program for the International Rescue Committee, where she represented and advocated for her clients’ human rights. Hear more of our podcast interview together up on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 10: A Place to Go with Jacqueline Gow.
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    “Why do we say that this small plot is ours? How do we own this thing that’s part of Mother Nature? I was going through thoughts about that, thinking about fencing, property lines, and the American Dream. One association of the American Dream is the white picket fence. I went through online photos and Instagram, and there were people using the white picket fence in hashtags ironically and some people who were not — they really wanted that white picket fence. I made a one-quarter replica, similar to what you could buy at Home Depot, in white porcelain slip (which is a liquid clay). I have one that is a complete and intact white picket fence, and then I have one that's broken. People see it and know the reference one way or the other, whether it's ironic, or not, or complicated.” @cu.studios makes narrative, symbolic ceramic art as well as laser-etched tableware and planters. She’s a student of International Migration and Public Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science and previously worked on the Family Reunification Program for the International Rescue Committee, where she represented and advocated for her clients’ human rights. Hear more of our podcast interview together up on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 10: A Place to Go with Jacqueline Gow.
  • “I like using my hands. Clay has a strong structure...it teaches patience, it’s a long process from beginning to end. Being in such a computer-driven world, it's nice to be able to produce something you can see, that has function. Most of my work is tableware. To have your work in other people’s homes, work they touch either with a fork, or their hands, or their mouth (with a mug), it's an intimate space. When people say, ‘Hey, I use your mug every morning,’ it's really interesting...to get to be a part of their world in that way.” @cu.studios makes narrative, symbolic ceramic art as well as laser-etched tableware and planters. She’s a student of International Migration and Public Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science and previously worked on the Family Reunification Program for the International Rescue Committee, where she represented and advocated for her clients’ human rights. Hear more on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 10: A Place to Go with Jacqueline Gow.
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    “I like using my hands. Clay has a strong structure...it teaches patience, it’s a long process from beginning to end. Being in such a computer-driven world, it's nice to be able to produce something you can see, that has function. Most of my work is tableware. To have your work in other people’s homes, work they touch either with a fork, or their hands, or their mouth (with a mug), it's an intimate space. When people say, ‘Hey, I use your mug every morning,’ it's really interesting...to get to be a part of their world in that way.” @cu.studios makes narrative, symbolic ceramic art as well as laser-etched tableware and planters. She’s a student of International Migration and Public Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science and previously worked on the Family Reunification Program for the International Rescue Committee, where she represented and advocated for her clients’ human rights. Hear more on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 10: A Place to Go with Jacqueline Gow.
  • Today on the podcast, ceramicist Jackie Gow of @cu.studios 🍽️ Jackie makes narrative, symbolic ceramic art as well as laser-etched tableware and planters. She’s a student of International Migration and Public Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science and previously worked on the Family Reunification Program for the International Rescue Committee, where she represented and advocated for her clients’ human rights.🚪🧱 I visited Jackie at her art studio in what used to be the immigration building of Seattle. Jackie’s art is quite relevant to discussions of the future as we grapple with a federal government shutdown while divisive rhetoric around the potential construction of a southern border wall rages on. We can’t have sensible discussions around options for our future without looking, at least in part, through the lens of the past, and ceramics are one of humanity’s oldest art forms. Jackie spoke with me about citizenship, the American dream, and working with clay. 🍚 Given her passion for human rights and migration policy, this weekend felt like a poignant time to bring you Jackie’s interview, on the 74th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. After our interview, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I share a few fundamentals of universal human rights. Hear the whole thing on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 10: A Place to Go with Jacqueline Gow. Photo by Lisa Thiele.
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    Today on the podcast, ceramicist Jackie Gow of @cu.studios 🍽️ Jackie makes narrative, symbolic ceramic art as well as laser-etched tableware and planters. She’s a student of International Migration and Public Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science and previously worked on the Family Reunification Program for the International Rescue Committee, where she represented and advocated for her clients’ human rights.🚪🧱 I visited Jackie at her art studio in what used to be the immigration building of Seattle. Jackie’s art is quite relevant to discussions of the future as we grapple with a federal government shutdown while divisive rhetoric around the potential construction of a southern border wall rages on. We can’t have sensible discussions around options for our future without looking, at least in part, through the lens of the past, and ceramics are one of humanity’s oldest art forms. Jackie spoke with me about citizenship, the American dream, and working with clay. 🍚 Given her passion for human rights and migration policy, this weekend felt like a poignant time to bring you Jackie’s interview, on the 74th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. After our interview, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I share a few fundamentals of universal human rights. Hear the whole thing on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 10: A Place to Go with Jacqueline Gow. Photo by Lisa Thiele.
  • From artist, illustrator, and GIF queen @qrtrs : “There's more opportunity now, I think, for art to exist within a tech space. There was originally a push for really clean and crisp and the futuristic-looking programs, UIs, and technologies, but now people want to get back to something that is relatable, welcoming, something that's enjoyable to look at in a sense, something that isn't so focused on crisp design. We’re bringing in an element of hand-drawn artistry. For example, I use Google Calendar on my phone. You scroll through the months; each time you go pass a different month, there'll be a little banner illustration, and the illustration will coincide with the month in terms of weather. The April one, maybe there's someone holding an umbrella, and in January or February, a snowy scene…breaks up the otherwise crisp and clean UI of a calendar. It brings a home-y, relatable aspect to the calendar that I find really interesting. I would like to see more of that adopted in tech as well. I love clean and functional design as much as the next person, but I'd love to see some different voices and variety as well.” Check out the whole thing on iTunes and SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 9: A Thousand Words with Courtney Brendle.
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    From artist, illustrator, and GIF queen @qrtrs : “There's more opportunity now, I think, for art to exist within a tech space. There was originally a push for really clean and crisp and the futuristic-looking programs, UIs, and technologies, but now people want to get back to something that is relatable, welcoming, something that's enjoyable to look at in a sense, something that isn't so focused on crisp design. We’re bringing in an element of hand-drawn artistry. For example, I use Google Calendar on my phone. You scroll through the months; each time you go pass a different month, there'll be a little banner illustration, and the illustration will coincide with the month in terms of weather. The April one, maybe there's someone holding an umbrella, and in January or February, a snowy scene…breaks up the otherwise crisp and clean UI of a calendar. It brings a home-y, relatable aspect to the calendar that I find really interesting. I would like to see more of that adopted in tech as well. I love clean and functional design as much as the next person, but I'd love to see some different voices and variety as well.” Check out the whole thing on iTunes and SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 9: A Thousand Words with Courtney Brendle.
  • From artist, illustrator, and GIF queen Courtney Brendle: “It's a tough economy to work in, and a lot of artists are underpaid, but art is a valid career path. We should be paid a living wage. Balancing out the economic issues artists face is something I’d like to see changed in the future. To be able to create things for living and people to provide for myself independently is my goal. I’m achieving that so far, luckily, so hopefully, I can keep that up. The artist community I find myself both in and looking up to is comprised of artist activists...people who do editorial pieces for articles and such, illustrations, GIFs, or other visuals to accompany articles. Art heightens emotion in these kind of pieces that spread news and raise awareness. People are naturally drawn to imagery, drawn to art. [Art is more important than ever] because it can capture attention and imagination, help push a message forward. The future is both tomorrow and a hundred years from now. We need to consider our actions in the present and immediate future as well as the far out far out future, then work to make it the best that we can make it.” Check out the whole thing on iTunes and SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 9: A Thousand Words with Courtney Brendle ⚡ https://soundcloud.com/futureprairie/gifs ⚡ @qrtrs
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    From artist, illustrator, and GIF queen Courtney Brendle: “It's a tough economy to work in, and a lot of artists are underpaid, but art is a valid career path. We should be paid a living wage. Balancing out the economic issues artists face is something I’d like to see changed in the future. To be able to create things for living and people to provide for myself independently is my goal. I’m achieving that so far, luckily, so hopefully, I can keep that up. The artist community I find myself both in and looking up to is comprised of artist activists...people who do editorial pieces for articles and such, illustrations, GIFs, or other visuals to accompany articles. Art heightens emotion in these kind of pieces that spread news and raise awareness. People are naturally drawn to imagery, drawn to art. [Art is more important than ever] because it can capture attention and imagination, help push a message forward. The future is both tomorrow and a hundred years from now. We need to consider our actions in the present and immediate future as well as the far out far out future, then work to make it the best that we can make it.” Check out the whole thing on iTunes and SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 9: A Thousand Words with Courtney Brendle ⚡ https://soundcloud.com/futureprairie/gifs ⚡ @qrtrs
  • For the latest podcast episode, we interviewed artist, illustrator, and GIF queen Courtney Brendle! @qrtrs discusses GIFs, the future of visual communication, and using art to make tech more human. Check out the whole thing on iTunes and SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 9: A Thousand Words with Courtney Brendle.
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    For the latest podcast episode, we interviewed artist, illustrator, and GIF queen Courtney Brendle! @qrtrs discusses GIFs, the future of visual communication, and using art to make tech more human. Check out the whole thing on iTunes and SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 9: A Thousand Words with Courtney Brendle.
  • “How much of our ‘life story’ are we living right now, and how much it is interrupted by the ‘Chronos time’ of technology, with robotic alerts trying to grab our time with haptic buzzes? (Haptics are, [for example] the buzzing of your phone in your pocket). I think people should seriously ask: are they happy or not? ⏲️⏱️⏰ It's all about how you treat each moment. Every moment can be created, and every moment can be silly. You have to ask: what is happiness? What was the last time you were happy, and what were you doing? Do you remember anything from last week? Do you remember the Reddit binges you went on? Do you remember the Facebook post you got angry about? What DO you remember? Can you have a little bit more of that?” -- @caseorganic 👾🤖👾 Amber Case is an artist and designer who studies the interaction between humans and computers. Amber looks at how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think and act, and how they understand their worlds.Check out our most recent podcast episode on design, creativity, class, the theory of time, and time management on iTunes or SoundCloud: Season 1 Episode 8: A Little Bit More with Amber Case. Music mixed by @xcarlisax. ⏳📟📳📵📶📞
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    “How much of our ‘life story’ are we living right now, and how much it is interrupted by the ‘Chronos time’ of technology, with robotic alerts trying to grab our time with haptic buzzes? (Haptics are, [for example] the buzzing of your phone in your pocket). I think people should seriously ask: are they happy or not? ⏲️⏱️⏰ It's all about how you treat each moment. Every moment can be created, and every moment can be silly. You have to ask: what is happiness? What was the last time you were happy, and what were you doing? Do you remember anything from last week? Do you remember the Reddit binges you went on? Do you remember the Facebook post you got angry about? What DO you remember? Can you have a little bit more of that?” -- @caseorganic 👾🤖👾 Amber Case is an artist and designer who studies the interaction between humans and computers. Amber looks at how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think and act, and how they understand their worlds.Check out our most recent podcast episode on design, creativity, class, the theory of time, and time management on iTunes or SoundCloud: Season 1 Episode 8: A Little Bit More with Amber Case. Music mixed by @xcarlisax. ⏳📟📳📵📶📞
  • @caseorganic says our glass box days are numbered! American developers have spent the last decade churning out homogeneous live/work glass condo buildings that structure our thought, society and spaces in linear, chronological ways. “Once [racial, social, and architectural diversity] goes away, there’s a certain fabric that’s lost in the city; if it's not conserved, what's the point? We're just living in hives. We’re the thing we were afraid of — with communism, fascism. This sameness is not good for the future. It’s an enormous health cost, a risk for drugs, opiates, suicide. It’s wrong that the only time you see people from different social classes is at the DMV. This comes up when we only have structured, chronos time and don’t have kairos, human time.” Amber Case is an artist and designer who studies the interaction between humans and computers. Amber looks at how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think and act, and how they understand their worlds. Check out our podcast episode on design, creativity, class, the theory of time, and time management on iTunes or SoundCloud: Season 1 Episode 8: A Little Bit More with Amber Case. Music by @xcarlisax.
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    @caseorganic says our glass box days are numbered! American developers have spent the last decade churning out homogeneous live/work glass condo buildings that structure our thought, society and spaces in linear, chronological ways. “Once [racial, social, and architectural diversity] goes away, there’s a certain fabric that’s lost in the city; if it's not conserved, what's the point? We're just living in hives. We’re the thing we were afraid of — with communism, fascism. This sameness is not good for the future. It’s an enormous health cost, a risk for drugs, opiates, suicide. It’s wrong that the only time you see people from different social classes is at the DMV. This comes up when we only have structured, chronos time and don’t have kairos, human time.” Amber Case is an artist and designer who studies the interaction between humans and computers. Amber looks at how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think and act, and how they understand their worlds. Check out our podcast episode on design, creativity, class, the theory of time, and time management on iTunes or SoundCloud: Season 1 Episode 8: A Little Bit More with Amber Case. Music by @xcarlisax.
  • Amber Case is an artist and designer who studies the interaction between humans and computers. Amber looks at how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think and act, and how they understand their worlds. Amber's work in the field of cyborg anthropology and user experience design led to a two-year fellowship at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and the MIT Center for Civic Media. Amber is the author of two books: “Designing with Sound” and “Calm Technology: Design for the Next Generation of Devices”. Amber’s TED talk, “We are all cyborgs now,” has been viewed over one million times. Amber was featured among Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology in 2010, was the co-founder of a location-based software company acquired in 2012, was named one of National Geographic’s Emerging Explorers and was listed among Inc. Magazine’s 30 under 30. Along this journey, just for fun, Amber founded CyborgCamp, a conference on the future of humans and computers. I caught up with Amber there, at the tenth anniversary of CyborgCamp, where we stole some moments away in a sunny corner of a little classroom. We enjoyed a wide-ranging discussion on career, creativity, class, the theory of time, and time management. Check the whole thing on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 8: A Little Bit More with @caseorganic 👽👾🛸🧞‍♀️ Music by @xcarlisax 🎧🎵🎸
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    Amber Case is an artist and designer who studies the interaction between humans and computers. Amber looks at how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think and act, and how they understand their worlds. Amber's work in the field of cyborg anthropology and user experience design led to a two-year fellowship at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and the MIT Center for Civic Media. Amber is the author of two books: “Designing with Sound” and “Calm Technology: Design for the Next Generation of Devices”. Amber’s TED talk, “We are all cyborgs now,” has been viewed over one million times. Amber was featured among Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology in 2010, was the co-founder of a location-based software company acquired in 2012, was named one of National Geographic’s Emerging Explorers and was listed among Inc. Magazine’s 30 under 30. Along this journey, just for fun, Amber founded CyborgCamp, a conference on the future of humans and computers. I caught up with Amber there, at the tenth anniversary of CyborgCamp, where we stole some moments away in a sunny corner of a little classroom. We enjoyed a wide-ranging discussion on career, creativity, class, the theory of time, and time management. Check the whole thing on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 8: A Little Bit More with @caseorganic 👽👾🛸🧞‍♀️ Music by @xcarlisax 🎧🎵🎸
  • Our latest Future Prairie Radio podcast episode features interviews conducted out and about in the streets of Portland, Oregon. The artists of Future Prairie spent a day interviewing the public in celebration of International PARK(ing) Day, an annual global event that occurs on the third Friday in September and has been taking place in Portland since 2006. PARK(ing) Day supports creative placemaking by allowing people to temporarily convert on-street parking spaces into interactive public spaces. This year, eighteen parking spots around Portland were turned into unique spaces such as a bubble park, a miniature salmon stream, an art studio, a putt-putt golf course, a letter-writing lounge, a bike-fixing station, and more. We set up a mobile podcasting studio outside and asked people, “What do you envision for the future of our city?” Produced in collaboration with the City of Portland and the Bureau of Transportation. Check out the whole thing on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 7 — “Wouldn’t That Be Fun?” 🎙️ @pbotinfo #pbotparkingday #portlandinthestreets 🎙️ Music by @maiahwynne 🎨 #ORCulture
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    Our latest Future Prairie Radio podcast episode features interviews conducted out and about in the streets of Portland, Oregon. The artists of Future Prairie spent a day interviewing the public in celebration of International PARK(ing) Day, an annual global event that occurs on the third Friday in September and has been taking place in Portland since 2006. PARK(ing) Day supports creative placemaking by allowing people to temporarily convert on-street parking spaces into interactive public spaces. This year, eighteen parking spots around Portland were turned into unique spaces such as a bubble park, a miniature salmon stream, an art studio, a putt-putt golf course, a letter-writing lounge, a bike-fixing station, and more. We set up a mobile podcasting studio outside and asked people, “What do you envision for the future of our city?” Produced in collaboration with the City of Portland and the Bureau of Transportation. Check out the whole thing on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 7 — “Wouldn’t That Be Fun?” 🎙️ @pbotinfo #pbotparkingday #portlandinthestreets 🎙️ Music by @maiahwynne 🎨 #ORCulture
  • Our latest Future Prairie Radio podcast episode features interviews conducted out and about in the streets of Portland, Oregon. The artists of Future Prairie spent a day interviewing the public in celebration of International PARK(ing) Day, an annual global event that occurs on the third Friday in September and has been taking place in Portland since 2006. PARK(ing) Day supports creative placemaking by allowing people to temporarily convert on-street parking spaces into interactive public spaces. This year, eighteen parking spots around Portland were turned into unique spaces such as a bubble park, a miniature salmon stream, an art studio, a putt-putt golf course, a letter-writing lounge, a bike-fixing station, and more. We set up a mobile podcasting studio outside and asked people, “What do you envision for the future of our city?” Produced in collaboration with the City of Portland and the Bureau of Transportation. Check out the whole thing on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 7 — “Wouldn’t That Be Fun?” 🎙️ @pbotinfo #pbotparkingday #portlandinthestreets 🎙️ Music by @maiahwynne 🎨 #ORCulture
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    Our latest Future Prairie Radio podcast episode features interviews conducted out and about in the streets of Portland, Oregon. The artists of Future Prairie spent a day interviewing the public in celebration of International PARK(ing) Day, an annual global event that occurs on the third Friday in September and has been taking place in Portland since 2006. PARK(ing) Day supports creative placemaking by allowing people to temporarily convert on-street parking spaces into interactive public spaces. This year, eighteen parking spots around Portland were turned into unique spaces such as a bubble park, a miniature salmon stream, an art studio, a putt-putt golf course, a letter-writing lounge, a bike-fixing station, and more. We set up a mobile podcasting studio outside and asked people, “What do you envision for the future of our city?” Produced in collaboration with the City of Portland and the Bureau of Transportation. Check out the whole thing on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 7 — “Wouldn’t That Be Fun?” 🎙️ @pbotinfo #pbotparkingday #portlandinthestreets 🎙️ Music by @maiahwynne 🎨 #ORCulture
  • Our latest Future Prairie Radio podcast episode features interviews conducted out and about in the streets of Portland, Oregon. The artists of Future Prairie spent a day interviewing the public in celebration of International PARK(ing) Day, an annual global event that occurs on the third Friday in September and has been taking place in Portland since 2006. PARK(ing) Day supports creative placemaking by allowing people to temporarily convert on-street parking spaces into interactive public spaces. This year, eighteen parking spots around Portland were turned into unique spaces such as a bubble park, a miniature salmon stream, an art studio, a putt-putt golf course, a letter-writing lounge, a bike-fixing station, and more. We set up a mobile podcasting studio on NW 11th Ave between Couch and Davis right outside the largest independent used and new bookstore in the world, Powell’s Books, and we asked people, “What do you envision for the future of our city?” Produced in collaboration with the City of Portland and the Bureau of Transportation. Check out the whole thing on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 7 — “Wouldn’t That Be Fun?” 🎙️ @pbotinfo #pbotparkingday #portlandinthestreets 🎙️ Music by @maiahwynne 🎨 #ORCulture
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    Our latest Future Prairie Radio podcast episode features interviews conducted out and about in the streets of Portland, Oregon. The artists of Future Prairie spent a day interviewing the public in celebration of International PARK(ing) Day, an annual global event that occurs on the third Friday in September and has been taking place in Portland since 2006. PARK(ing) Day supports creative placemaking by allowing people to temporarily convert on-street parking spaces into interactive public spaces. This year, eighteen parking spots around Portland were turned into unique spaces such as a bubble park, a miniature salmon stream, an art studio, a putt-putt golf course, a letter-writing lounge, a bike-fixing station, and more. We set up a mobile podcasting studio on NW 11th Ave between Couch and Davis right outside the largest independent used and new bookstore in the world, Powell’s Books, and we asked people, “What do you envision for the future of our city?” Produced in collaboration with the City of Portland and the Bureau of Transportation. Check out the whole thing on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 7 — “Wouldn’t That Be Fun?” 🎙️ @pbotinfo #pbotparkingday #portlandinthestreets 🎙️ Music by @maiahwynne 🎨 #ORCulture
  • “We live in a strange time. It’s easy to take pictures of yourself, self promote, push your own personal brand, and be really competitive with other people, but when I am able to help other people instead of feeling selfish, I feel much more power. Yes, when you're constantly collaborating with your peers, working with the same ingredients, creating similar products, there comes a bit of professional jealousy. Maybe you’re designing a very similar product but for some reason they get acknowledgement and you don’t. It feels a little bit bad, especially if it's something that you were doing that's pretty unique or is being done for the first time. But one of the really special things about the Portland beer industry — and the Portland makers industry in general — is that everyone is competitive, but no one's cutthroat. The future of our industries depends on collaboration. Collaboration continues to raise the bar.” — Breakside Brewery’s Research and Development Brewer Natalie Rose Baldwin. Check out the whole podcast episode on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 6: Raise the Bar with Natalie Rose Baldwin.
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    “We live in a strange time. It’s easy to take pictures of yourself, self promote, push your own personal brand, and be really competitive with other people, but when I am able to help other people instead of feeling selfish, I feel much more power. Yes, when you're constantly collaborating with your peers, working with the same ingredients, creating similar products, there comes a bit of professional jealousy. Maybe you’re designing a very similar product but for some reason they get acknowledgement and you don’t. It feels a little bit bad, especially if it's something that you were doing that's pretty unique or is being done for the first time. But one of the really special things about the Portland beer industry — and the Portland makers industry in general — is that everyone is competitive, but no one's cutthroat. The future of our industries depends on collaboration. Collaboration continues to raise the bar.” — Breakside Brewery’s Research and Development Brewer Natalie Rose Baldwin. Check out the whole podcast episode on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 6: Raise the Bar with Natalie Rose Baldwin.
  • “Last year we made over one hundred unique beers in a calendar year. When I am designing a new beer, I can be inspired by anything. I might walk by a tree and see flowers and wonder if they are edible, or I’ll drink a cocktail that has a certain element that blows my mind, or I enjoy a wonderful meal...it can be texture, aroma, ingredient, a certain theme, or even in some cases I’ve been inspired by a person, by the power of other people around you. I’ve wanted to make a beer that feels right for a certain moment. Part of my job specifically is to figure out how to take all of that and scale it up to the big brewery.” — Breakside Brewery’s Research and Development Brewer @nrbeeer discusses inspiration, design, and the future of collaboration. Check out the whole podcast episode on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 6: Raise the Bar with Natalie Rose Baldwin.
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    “Last year we made over one hundred unique beers in a calendar year. When I am designing a new beer, I can be inspired by anything. I might walk by a tree and see flowers and wonder if they are edible, or I’ll drink a cocktail that has a certain element that blows my mind, or I enjoy a wonderful meal...it can be texture, aroma, ingredient, a certain theme, or even in some cases I’ve been inspired by a person, by the power of other people around you. I’ve wanted to make a beer that feels right for a certain moment. Part of my job specifically is to figure out how to take all of that and scale it up to the big brewery.” — Breakside Brewery’s Research and Development Brewer @nrbeeer discusses inspiration, design, and the future of collaboration. Check out the whole podcast episode on iTunes or SoundCloud: Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 6: Raise the Bar with Natalie Rose Baldwin.
  • Pick up any business forecasting magazine today and you’ll read about how the future of business will be defined by collaboration. For the newest episode of Future Prairie Radio, I wanted to get beyond that catchphrase and find out what it looks like to professionally collaborate from someone who’s in the trenches. Natalie Rose Baldwin is a highly-decorated brewer and a multipotentialite with many interests and pursuits. In her teenage years, she trained to become a professional skiier, then she studied biochemistry at the University of Colorado in Denver before beginning a career in beer making in Portland, Oregon, where she’s become one of our brightest and most collaborative beverage industry leaders. Not only that, but she’s a gender-bending queer woman who mentors members of her communities and co-founded the Lady Brewer Girl Gang, a professional association of women helping to shape the future of the brewing industry. In today’s episode, she talks about some of her favorite collaborations, how to be a good peer to your collaborators, why the communities pubs create are important, and the history of women making beer. Check out the whole episode on iTunes or SoundCloud! Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 6: Raise the Bar with Natalie Rose Baldwin (@nrbeeer). Also featuring @lenoresings 🎶🎨✨🍻!
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    Pick up any business forecasting magazine today and you’ll read about how the future of business will be defined by collaboration. For the newest episode of Future Prairie Radio, I wanted to get beyond that catchphrase and find out what it looks like to professionally collaborate from someone who’s in the trenches. Natalie Rose Baldwin is a highly-decorated brewer and a multipotentialite with many interests and pursuits. In her teenage years, she trained to become a professional skiier, then she studied biochemistry at the University of Colorado in Denver before beginning a career in beer making in Portland, Oregon, where she’s become one of our brightest and most collaborative beverage industry leaders. Not only that, but she’s a gender-bending queer woman who mentors members of her communities and co-founded the Lady Brewer Girl Gang, a professional association of women helping to shape the future of the brewing industry. In today’s episode, she talks about some of her favorite collaborations, how to be a good peer to your collaborators, why the communities pubs create are important, and the history of women making beer. Check out the whole episode on iTunes or SoundCloud! Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 6: Raise the Bar with Natalie Rose Baldwin (@nrbeeer). Also featuring @lenoresings 🎶🎨✨🍻!
  • China is a tremendous force in Asia and has a lot of political, military, social capital. I think about cities as human dominated ecosystems; what are the ecosystems that China is creating through supercities? Supercities, or super regions, are agglomerations of multiple cities that have a common set of objectives, industries, demographics, and physical systems. It acts as almost a state in and of itself...that governance would enable, through incentives or penalties, certain actions to take precedence and priority. The governance layer gets put on top of this physical agglomeration, and you start seeing priorities being emphasized by super regions and other priorities being deemphasized. Well, the extent to which those rules are trying to go beyond creating a safe and healthy environment suggests they're creating normative outcomes....certain goods and certain bads beyond maintaining safe and habitable spaces, such as a higher gross domestic product. If that is one of the normative goods that the Chinese government is trying to maximize, then supercities are masterful. There's a sense of excitement. I would say it's palpable. Cities are not that old; humans have been around for tens of thousands of years, but cities are just a few thousand years old. We have to figure out how to structure these spaces and manage all the moving parts of this increasingly complex system. Can residents of supercities live in a habitable, healthy environment? Will they have deep levels of social capital that allow community to feel connected? Will they have a sense of identity that really compels them, inspires them to want to give back to their super region? — Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 5: Supercities with urban studies professor Vivek Shandas, live on iTunes and SoundCloud.
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    China is a tremendous force in Asia and has a lot of political, military, social capital. I think about cities as human dominated ecosystems; what are the ecosystems that China is creating through supercities? Supercities, or super regions, are agglomerations of multiple cities that have a common set of objectives, industries, demographics, and physical systems. It acts as almost a state in and of itself...that governance would enable, through incentives or penalties, certain actions to take precedence and priority. The governance layer gets put on top of this physical agglomeration, and you start seeing priorities being emphasized by super regions and other priorities being deemphasized. Well, the extent to which those rules are trying to go beyond creating a safe and healthy environment suggests they're creating normative outcomes....certain goods and certain bads beyond maintaining safe and habitable spaces, such as a higher gross domestic product. If that is one of the normative goods that the Chinese government is trying to maximize, then supercities are masterful. There's a sense of excitement. I would say it's palpable. Cities are not that old; humans have been around for tens of thousands of years, but cities are just a few thousand years old. We have to figure out how to structure these spaces and manage all the moving parts of this increasingly complex system. Can residents of supercities live in a habitable, healthy environment? Will they have deep levels of social capital that allow community to feel connected? Will they have a sense of identity that really compels them, inspires them to want to give back to their super region? — Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 5: Supercities with urban studies professor Vivek Shandas, live on iTunes and SoundCloud.
  • Cities can take many different forms, and yet, humans have been roughly doing the same things in all these places. We have a human capacity to negotiate landscapes...in the US and the West, in western Europe, parts of Mexico and Latin America, some groups have been trying to create an organized set of physical features on the landscape: a home, a sidewalk, the space between the sidewalk and the street called a median strip, parking, use of the street. The systematic organization that the West has created through the discipline of urban planning is now in a real interesting conundrum of saying, 'Do we impose this upon places as a standard way of organizing space? Do we say their place is a mess and it's chaotic? Do we bring our system of organizing spaces in this way and make it more 'ordered'? A vocal, well-situated group of intellectuals as well as practitioners and decision makers in what we call the Global South is challenging these ideas and saying, 'Actually, you know, these informal settlements that are often referred to as slums or ghettos or favelas have an incredibly robust set of social interactions and social capital, the connection between and among individuals.' That is a very strong indicator of a well functioning society: bonds between and among individuals. Favelas, informal settlements, slums are highly capable of withstanding some of the most intense shocks to urban systems, whether they're economic shocks, whether they're diseases that come through, whether they're floods, heat waves, etc. These are communities that have organized responses. They find a way to make it through. — Urban studies professor Vivek Shandas on colonialism in city planning and the future of Chinese architecture and development. Hear more in Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 5: Supercities, live on iTunes and SoundCloud.
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    Cities can take many different forms, and yet, humans have been roughly doing the same things in all these places. We have a human capacity to negotiate landscapes...in the US and the West, in western Europe, parts of Mexico and Latin America, some groups have been trying to create an organized set of physical features on the landscape: a home, a sidewalk, the space between the sidewalk and the street called a median strip, parking, use of the street. The systematic organization that the West has created through the discipline of urban planning is now in a real interesting conundrum of saying, 'Do we impose this upon places as a standard way of organizing space? Do we say their place is a mess and it's chaotic? Do we bring our system of organizing spaces in this way and make it more 'ordered'? A vocal, well-situated group of intellectuals as well as practitioners and decision makers in what we call the Global South is challenging these ideas and saying, 'Actually, you know, these informal settlements that are often referred to as slums or ghettos or favelas have an incredibly robust set of social interactions and social capital, the connection between and among individuals.' That is a very strong indicator of a well functioning society: bonds between and among individuals. Favelas, informal settlements, slums are highly capable of withstanding some of the most intense shocks to urban systems, whether they're economic shocks, whether they're diseases that come through, whether they're floods, heat waves, etc. These are communities that have organized responses. They find a way to make it through. — Urban studies professor Vivek Shandas on colonialism in city planning and the future of Chinese architecture and development. Hear more in Future Prairie Radio Season 1 Episode 5: Supercities, live on iTunes and SoundCloud.