Episodes
Multidisciplinary designer, floral artist and no-waste advocate Joost Bakker guides us through his mission to inspire us all to live a zero-waste life. Follow along on @endless_vital_activity / @acceptandproceeed
Published 04/02/24
Published 04/02/24
Clare Farrell and Brian Eno discuss their shared commitment to mobilising change in the face of climate emergency, under the banner of an emergent movement called HardArt. Follow along on @endless_vital_activity / @acceptandproceeed
Published 02/20/24
In this episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston meets with Bethany Koby – mum, CEO, Social entrepreneur, designer, educator and art director. Bethany journeys through her trajectory, from her education to the inception of Fam Studio and Tech Will Save Us.  Johnston and Koby interrogate how technology can be an expressive medium, as opposed to just a tool, and also discuss the challenges & opportunities of parenting in the digital age. Follow along on @endless_vital_activity /...
Published 03/06/23
In this episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston meets with Adrian Lahoud - architect, urban designer, researcher and dean of the School of Architecture at London's Royal College of Arts. Johnston and Lahoud discuss Second Sea, why we need to stimulate debate around reparations, and the importance of reciprocity.  Follow along on @endless_vital_activity / @acceptandproceeed
Published 12/15/22
In this episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston welcomes a radically new perspective to the season with architect Michael Pawlyn. Listen to the conversation on what lies between our built environment and our natural environment: biomimicry. Follow along on @endless_vital_activity / @acceptandproceeed
Published 09/14/22
In this episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston speaks with none other than whom many consider as one of the great philosophers and writers of our time: Charles Eisenstein. In this special conversation, join David and Charles for an enlightening mind journey on the topic of Rethinking Meta-Systems. Follow along on @endless_vital_activity / @acceptandproceeed
Published 08/02/22
Our first guest kicking off this season is Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, an Olympic champion, three-times world champion heptathlete and the founder of Jennis, a fitness app synced to its user’s unique hormonal cycle. This season’s theme is Rethinking Systems, and with Jessica, we are Rethinking Women’s Health. Follow along on @endless_vital_activity / @acceptandproceeed
Published 06/28/22
“Commercialism is not the antithesis of culture; it can be part of it, but a well-rounded culture does not keep culture and commerce in antithesis”   In this episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston speaks with Paola Antonelli, senior curator of the Department of Architecture & Design and Director of R&D at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.  David and Paola explore her philosophy of design for the people, why she compares her role as a curator to that of a movie director as...
Published 07/27/21
“The idea that you could use the law to help other people fight for bigger radical change was the only thing I ever wanted to do”  In this episode, David Johnston sits down with Ravi Naik, co-founder for the UK’s first data right agency A.W.O and a leading solicitor in the field of data protection and protecting human rights in a digital age, working on agenda setting cases against Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, and Google.  Together the two discuss how the intersection between human rights...
Published 05/27/21
“The future is a verb, not a noun. It's not something that we passively stumble into, it's something we all actively shape and define”In this episode, David Johnston sits down with director and architect Liam Young, co-founder of the Urban Futures think...
Published 04/28/21
“We need a new mythology of what technology is. We need nature-based technologies that will lead us towards a new form for not being saviours of the earth, but living with Earth symbiotically” In this second episode of series 2, creative studio Accept...
Published 02/04/21
"I think at the centre of it, is a new recognition of who we are as human beings."In the first episode of series 2, creative studio Accept & Proceed’s founder David Johnston meets with Indy Johar, architect and co-founder of Dark Matter...
Published 01/07/21
“What does it look like on the other side of this crisis? Does this have to be a story of depravity - or can it be an opportunity to create [a better future]?” In the latest episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston speaks with Damon Gameau,...
Published 09/03/20
“A crisis such as the one that we're in right now has given brands a bit of a wakeup call to make products that are about survival and not necessarily consumption in the same way.”In this episode, David Johnston meets with Seetal Solanki, founder of...
Published 08/20/20
“[In the future] I believe that the buildings will dream, the buildings will remember.”In the latest episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston speaks with Refik Anadol, media artist, director and visiting researcher at UCLA’s Department of...
Published 08/06/20
“Uncertainty is freedom.”In this episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston meets with Clare Farrell, co-founder of global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion.Johnson and Farrell discuss the broken system our current democracy upholds,...
Published 07/22/20
“Business has some serious thinking to do. We're in danger of losing our way. In amongst a crisis and chaos is a really good time to just go ‘are we doing this right?’”In the latest episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston speaks with David...
Published 07/09/20
“It's not an asteroid coming in. It's not nuclear war. It's not a killer virus. We are the weapon of mass destruction.”In the first of this six-part series, creative studio Accept and Proceed’s founder David Johnston meets with renowned,...
Published 06/18/20