This episode is about seven themes all related in some way to climate and creativity that keep coming to mind when I'm doing the watering, which is rather a lot at the moment: What can we learn from the Apollo missions? Harnessing the subconsc

Hazel Hill Wood - Dawn chorus sonic lockdown therapy

Apr 30th, 2020 34m 11s

30 minutes of uninterrupted dawn chorus Hazel Hill Wood, recorded at the end of March. Hazel Hill is woodland nature reserve and education centre helping frontline staff develop resilience and wellbeing through connection with nature. While peo

#17 - Tabitha Pope - Participatory Architecture

Mar 12th, 2020 54m 5s

Tabitha Pope is an architect and lecturer, with a specialism temporary structures and participatory archiecture and a passion for work that sits at the boundary of art and architecture. In this episode, produced in support of International Wome

Bengt Cousins-Jenvey - How to save a million tonnes of carbon

Feb 13th, 2020 50m 7s

Bengt is a consultant and 're-designer', working in sustainability and circular design in the built environment. This year we are working together to create training in response to the climate emergency. In this interview I ask Bengt about his

Creativity, climate and clowning - Alexie Sommer interviews Oliver Broadbent

Jan 23rd, 2020 44m 11s

In this episode we flip the format: Alexie Sommer, Independent Design and Communication Director and collaborator on many of my projects interviews me about why I set up Eiffel Over and Constructivist Ltd, and what our plans are for 2020. We ge

Sophie Thomas - Circular Design

Jul 30th, 2019 39m 48s

Sophie is an unusual mix of campaigner, practising designer and Chartered Waste Manager. She’s been working in the fields of sustainable design, behaviour change and material process for nearly 20 years. I invited Sophie on to the show to talk

Forth Rail Brige - An Engineering Detour

Jun 21st, 2019 14m 54s

An engineering detour is something engineers do when they go out of their way, usually on holiday, to go and check out a piece of engineering infrastructure. In this episode I take an engineering detour to the mighty Forth Bridge. Along the way

Roma Agrawal - how to build a skyscraper

Jan 18th, 2018 30m 20s

Don’t try to build a skyscraper yourself without listening to this first: a step-by-step guide on how to build a skyscraper with structural engineer Roma Agrawal, author of 'Built, the Hidden Stories Behind our Structures’. We get into the engi

Jack Bardwell - Spine-tingling creativity

Jan 4th, 2018 47m 44s

I recorded this episode last summer with my colleague, graphic designer Jack Bardwell just before he left to puruse new adventures in interior architecture. It has been a pleasure therefore to listen his voice in the edit, and to hear the many

The J-P Flintoff meta podcast - saving the world one creative project at a time.

Nov 27th, 2017 52m 24s

Journalist and author J-P Flintoff is this person who inspired me to start this podcast. He talks passionately about how to get people started on their creative projects and the positive impact their creativity has on the world. This interview

Andrew Koskinski - Engineering transport in San Francisco

Nov 24th, 2017 40m 7s

I can’t think of metropolitan landscape that offers more varied and exciting opportunities for designing transport infrastructure than San Francisco, with its steep hills, its bay, its rapidly changing economy and its tantalisingly separated la

#8 - Eiffelover on tour in San Francisco - thoughts, interviews and sound bites on engineering, creativity and practical philosophy from the West Coast

May 12th, 2017 32m 1s

Ditching google maps + riding the BART + cycling the Golden Gate Bridge + big trains + hidden cognitive demand of team work and collaboration + measuring student brain waves + what is reality + the latest from Palo Alto

Eiffel Over on tour in San Francisco

May 12th, 2017 32m 13s

Ditching google maps + riding the bart + cycling downtown + Golden Gate Bridge + big trains + hidden cognitive demand of team work and collaboration + measuring student brave waves + what is reality + the latest from Paolo Alto

Ellie Westgarth Flynn - Creative strategies, instruments as extensions to our bodies and the importance of feedback

Apr 24th, 2017 35m 26s

Song writer and piano player Ellie Westgarth-Flynn and I talk creative musical strategies, instruments as extensions of our bodies, the tension between technical mastery and creativity and the importance of audience feedback. We also have a jam

Riding the Northern Line ghost train

Apr 3rd, 2017 11m 1s

In this episode I attempt a sonic recreation of a part of the London Underground that never got built, a stretch of the Northern Line that would have run from Moorgate to Alexandra Palace. En route I reflect on the transport infrastructure shap

Nick Cobbing - photographing the Arctic

Mar 2nd, 2017 34m 55s

Photographer and photojournalist Nick Cobbing talks about photographing the Arctic, what happens to photographic equipment at minus 38 degrees, using drones to take photos, the role of the audience in the creative process, being reduced to tear

Crossing France very very fast - a paean to TGVs

Feb 12th, 2017 31m 19s

Ever since I saw my first one zoom past as a boy I’ve loved TGVs. In January I travelled from one side of France to the other and back by high-speed train to get to a conference, and used the chance to try to capture some of what I love about f

Andrew Scoones - Is there such a thing as engineering culture?

Jan 25th, 2017 35m 8s

Andrew is a filmmaker specialising in the built environment. Andrew seems to have interviewed or met almost all of my engineering design heroes (except Eiffel), and so I was equally delighted and nervous when he agreed to let me interview him!

#1 - Introducing the Eiffelovercast recorded at EMF camp

Aug 7th, 2016 33m 10s

I’ve been thinking about creating an Eiffelover podcast for over a year. Last week at Port Eliot festival I saw John-Paul Flintoff (@jpflintoff) give a great talk on creativity in which he challenged us to name one creative project that we want

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