TEDxBasel, Interior Design - Milan Design Week, Creative Time - Basilea Art Project

At TEDxBasel 2018, you will be able to spend a day hearing about technology that pushes the frontiers of medicine; life stories of crossing multiple physical and cultural borders; enjoy engaging entertainers and be part of a multinational, multicultural audience. Two of the diverse speakers joining this year’s TEDxBasel lineup include: Gabriela Friel, an 11-year-old inspiring others through her love of unicycling; and University of Basel Assistant Professor, Prisca Liberali, sharing her groundbreaking research at Friedrich Miescher Institute on Organoids and how these self organised stem cell systems will potentially provide insights into development and diseases as never before. TEDxBasel will take place on 26th May 2018 at the Musical Theater Basel - get your tickets here! Joining us in the studio were Bret Simner and Paul Cushman. Listen to the interview again here.

We’re continuing our interior design series, with lots of tips and tricks on how to create your own sanctuary - your dream home away from home. Our expert is the award-winning Interior Designer and Blogger Simone Aïda Baur, founder of Global Inspirations Design. Simone visited Milan Design Week from 17 - 22 April. Milan Design Week is the world’s biggest design fair. Simone came back full of ideas and inspiration and shared some insights into the latest trends and innovations. To contact Simone, call +41 79 487 00 89 or email her at simone.baur@globalinspirationsdesign.com. Listen to the segment again here.

Joel interviewed Elvira Dyangani Ose of Creative Time, director of a public art project Basilea that will be at the Art Basel fair this June. Basilea invites us to reflect on a city’s possibilities through a series of immersive projects connecting the City of Basel, its residents and the 95,000+ fairgoers anticipated to attend Art Basel. Conceived by artists Lara Almarcegui, Isabel Lewis and architecture studio Recetas Urbanas led by Santiago Cirugeda, Basilea will open May 23, and culminate the week of Art Basel, June 11-17. This will be Creative Time’s first international public project and the first collaboration between the artists. The project is a first of its kind for the Art Basel fair, and has an "open call" feature that will allow members of the Basel community to participate in the making of art! Listen to the interview again here.

Our music theme this week was all about the riot grrrl scene that erupted, fanzine in hand, in the 1990s Pacific Northwest of the US, as well as associated bands in the grunge and punk scenes all over America, plus bands they were inspired by. We played:

Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

L7 - Pretend We're Dead

Fabulous Disaster - Next Big Joyride

Sleater-Kinney - You're No Rock N Roll Fun

Hole - Violet

Veruca Salt - Seether

Heavens To Betsy - White Girl

Lunachicks - Don't Want You

Throwing Muses - Shimmer

Red Aunts - Wrecked

Team Dresch - Remember Who You Are