ALL GOOD VIBES - connecting new architectural horizons: A new podcast that redefines sustainable architecture, projects and space according to an augmented concept of beauty.
Promoted by the online portal Floornature and supported by the Iris Ceramica Group Foundation, All Good Vibes, on air from May 8, invites its guests to reflect on the future role of architecture and design, connecting different experiences, contexts and generations.
ALL GOOD VIBES - connecting new architectural horizons is the brand new Podcast promoted by Iris Ceramica Group Foundation and international online architecture and design magazine Floornature.com, which promises good vibrations convertible into inspiration and creative thought for architects, designers and the rest of us.
Ideas, stimuli and projects on the theme of sustainability and its various aspects, an interdisciplinary approach that covers science and conscience and reinterprets disciplines and concepts such as architecture, design, technology and art according to new, essential parameters: environment, circularity, restructuring, resilience, social and corporate responsibility.
The format consists of a series of 15-minute episodes in English every fortnight, with discussions open to collective reflection and hosting different voices and experiences each time, featuring architects and designers, authoritative figures and promising new talents.
The same formula will apply to each episode, produced with the support of Lorenzo Abagnale and led by a duo of passionate professionals, Christiane Burklein and Virginia Cucchi, who will introduce the discussion on the topic and then ask the guest to answer questions.
Our hope is that among the topics, stories and opinions of the protagonists, all listeners will find opportunities to expand their knowledge and reflect, as well as a useful guide to identifying values to pursue that will characterize life and work in the future.
The same values that are already intertwined in the identity and design of the All Good Vibes Podcast, where the sound waves intersect with topographic and design references in green and blue, referring to the biosphere and sustainability: a symbol that summarizes and describes the commitment of Iris Ceramica Group Foundation to encourage cross-cutting studies and research, joint development and design, to apply truly sustainable models that promote ethics and a relationship culture to build an advanced concept of beauty.THE PROMOTORS
Iris Ceramica Group Foundation is an institution dedicated to promoting culture and architectural and design sustainability as socially useful tools, as well as promoting the highest values of solidarity on which civil society is based.
Floornature is an international architecture and design portal focused on materials for modern architecture, exclusive interviews with the great masters of international architecture and the most interesting news from the world of architecture.
Episode 5: James Finestone
03-07-2020
James Finestone is Director at Arup Architecture Europe. He is a multidisciplinary leader, experienced in low energy design, masterplanning and the role of Architecture in cities. As well as overseeing the development of the teams in Arup’s European offices, he has recently been involved in a number of sports stadia projects around the world, masterplans in Italy, Turkey and China, Science and Industry projects including Jaguar Landrover, Nestle and Equinix and many commercial projects. He was trained as an architect but has recently also gone back to student life in parallel with work to complete a masters in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for the Built Environment.
EPISODE 4: Laura Iloniemi
19-06-2020
EPISODE 4: Laura Iloniemi
19-06-2020
EPISODE 3: Jinhee Park
05-06-2020
Our new guest will fill the atmosphere of this new encounter with her energetic and extremely vibrant character. Beyond her apparent docile compliance, which is a bit a characteristic from her Asian origins, she hides an iron will and an extremely resolute character. Very talented and endowed with great originality and analytical skills she has achieved prestigious awards at a very young age, as AIA Young Architects Award, Emerging Voices Award and the Young Architects Forum Award by the Architectural League of N.Y. and the honour to be mentioned on some of the most authoritative architectural magazines. She will tell us about micro-housing and ‘spaces in between’, a topic she has always dealt with since the beginning, facing the crucial problem of living space in our contemporary crowded metropoleis. Environmental sustainability in a tropical country will be another interesting point that will be touched in our virtual chat.
EPISODE 2: Flora&Faunavision - Leigh Sachwitz
22-05-2020
FFV was founded in 1999 in Berlin by Scottish native Leigh Sachwitz. In 1993, received her architectural diploma from the Glasgow School of Art, she arrived in the post wall city, a gigantic playground for creative people where nothing was impossible. She worked in an architect office by day, she helped create makeshift clubs, bars, art spaces for the night using all sorts of materials, light and projections. Later she would add sound and video. Her visuals, sights and sounds are ephemeral and bang on trend, mixing media and technologies, yet they create visceral experiences.
EPISODE 2: Flora&Faunavision - Leigh Sachwitz
22-05-2020
FFV was founded in 1999 in Berlin by Scottish native Leigh Sachwitz. In 1993, received her architectural diploma from the Glasgow School of Art, she arrived in the post wall city, a gigantic playground for creative people where nothing was impossible. She worked in an architect office by day, she helped create makeshift clubs, bars, art spaces for the night using all sorts of materials, light and projections. Later she would add sound and video. Her visuals, sights and sounds are ephemeral and bang on trend, mixing media and technologies, yet they create visceral experiences.
EPISODE 1: SET Architects
08-05-2020
SET Architects, a team of young architects, will entertain our audience, imprinting a fresh, innovative tone to our first virtual encounter. With their extremely precise though very concise language they evoke the notes of a precious, carefully crafted environment that is gradually disappearing. Simplicity, a key note of their creative process, combined with sustainable materials and reverence to context and identity, envisions and casts a flexible and resilient contemporary style of living. Rewarded with important recognitions, it will be for sure not a surprise if they will conceive very soon special projects that will stand out for their originality and expressiveness. Andrea Tanci, co-founder with Onorato di Manno of the firm, will be with us, as representative of Set Architects.
TRAILER
08-05-2020
This new series of podcasts was born as an idea to maintain an open dialogue with architects and designers. The short podcasts will share, through a virtual chat, engaging and interesting insights of works, ideas and thoughts of the most significant representatives of this artistic panorama [these two worlds], from promising young people to famous, renowned ones. All the multidisciplinary aspects that are connected with these two worlds will be examined, focusing particularly on environmental and social sustainability. The encounters will be led by two hosts, Christiane Bürklein and Virginia Cucchi, as narrative voices. Two women who, belonging to different ages and different backgrounds, will provoke conversations more intense and compelling. The encounters, two a month, of about 15 minutes, are sponsored by the International platform Floornature and Iris Ceramica Group Foundation
TRAILER
08-05-2020
This new series of podcasts was born as an idea to maintain an open dialogue with architects and designers. The short podcasts will share, through a virtual chat, engaging and interesting insights of works, ideas and thoughts of the most significant representatives of this artistic panorama [these two worlds], from promising young people to famous, renowned ones. All the multidisciplinary aspects that are connected with these two worlds will be examined, focusing particularly on environmental and social sustainability. The encounters will be led by two hosts, Christiane Bürklein and Virginia Cucchi, as narrative voices. Two women who, belonging to different ages and different backgrounds, will provoke conversations more intense and compelling. The encounters, two a month, of about 15 minutes, are sponsored by the International platform Floornature and Iris Ceramica Group Foundation
VOICES
Virginia Cucchi
I am Virginia Cucchi, I am Italian but I have spent almost half of my 27 years in a tropical country, Malaysia. Returned to Italy, to my origins, I studied architecture for five years at Politecnico di Milano, with one year spent abroad in Beijing for an exchange at Tsinghua University.
I worked for The Plan- Architecture and Design Magazine, as part of the editorial stuff, as writer and interviewer of international architectural practices.
I am currently the curator of Design&Trend, a section intended as a monthly editorial that deepens keywords of the architectural panorama, for Floornature.
Christiane Burklein
I am Christiane Bürklein. German by birth, living in Italy since 1986, graduated in Modern Foreign Languages and Literature in Genoa.
I'm mother of two children, one adult, the other teenager, and worked as translator and interpreter. Architecture is my passion, even if I don’t became an architect.
I’m mainly interested in sustainable architecture, both in an environmental and social sense. Since almost 10 years I blog for Floornature: Livegreenblog reflects my innate curiosity for innovative, fresh, multidisciplinary solutions.
Working as Online Editor for MVRDV in Rotterdam, has allowed me to further broaden my horizons.
Lorenzo Abagnale
I’m Lorenzo Abagnale. Born in Naples, adopted by Rome, Italy. Always fascinated by good stories, no matter the medium they were told on, at some point I started to study Communication, with a Master’s Degree and other specializations, to understand how their magic works. After mixed experiences both with big brands and independent startups (including Sky, Philip Morris and TheSoul Publishing), in 2019 I started to explore deeply the new possibilities of the podcast (a medium I’ve been using and studying since 2012) as a powerful storytelling channel. Now, as a voice actor I narrate my clients’ stories with my voice. Or, as a podcast producer and consultant, I help them to find and use their own.