Endless Vital Activity

Death and Duality with Mr Bruce | Endless Vital Activity | S5 E1 It’s finally here. Season five of Endless Vital Activity. This season, we’re exploring FLUX: the signals, practices and people creating ripples in a world of constant motion. After an open call to walk with our founder David Johnston, we’re heading out into Greenwich with our first guest, London-based musician and painter Mr Bruce. I...

Ren Rigby, formerly known as Mike Rigby, is a multidisciplinary designer, educator and activist based in New York City. As founder and chief Design Officer of design and innovation company Proto, Ren is dedicated to advancing people. During this conversation, Ren and David journey through the nuances of reinvention, change, transition, and falling in and out of love with design. Follow along on @e...

Writer, thinker, novelist, journalist and cultural historian John Higgs discusses the power of magic and myth.  Follow along on @endless_vital_activity / @acceptandproceeed

Chef, bestselling writer and columnist Anna Jones talks about the overlaps between food, intuition, connection and healing.  Follow along on @endless_vital_activity / @acceptandproceeed

Co-founder and MD of social enterprise Thankyou Daniel Flynn talks about disruptive marketing and the importance of reimagining consumerism . Follow along on @endless_vital_activity / @acceptandproceeed

UNSAID – The conversations we’re not having | BYBORRE x Accept & Proceed Listen to Borre Akkersdijk of BYBORRE and David Johnston of Accept & Proceed at Milan Design Week 2024, as they speak with Helen Job – future forecaster, brand strategist and Principal at Observatory Studio. Helen talks about why provocation is important, why great design is communal and why you have to be inside the...

UNSAID – The conversations we’re not having | BYBORRE x Accept & Proceed Listen to Borre Akkersdijk of BYBORRE and David Johnston of Accept & Proceed at Milan Design Week 2024, as they speak with Jakob Lange, Partner at BIG.  Jakob, David and Borre talk about sustainability, technology and the future of architecture. --- Follow us with conversations being released via Endless Vital Activit...

UNSAID – The conversations we’re not having | BYBORRE x Accept & Proceed Listen to Borre Akkersdijk of BYBORRE and David Johnston of Accept & Proceed at Milan Design Week 2024, as they speak with design entrepreneur Yves Béhar. Yves discusses his innovative approach to business and technology through design. --- Follow us with conversations being released via Endless Vital Activity , and o...

UNSAID – The conversations we’re not having | BYBORRE x Accept & Proceed Listen to Borre Akkersdijk of BYBORRE and David Johnston of Accept & Proceed at Milan Design Week 2024, as they speak with Matteo Ward, CEO and co-founder of WRÅD. Matteo, Borre and David talk about the importance of challenging and questioning the role of the design industry. --- Follow us with conversations being re...

UNSAID – The conversations we’re not having | BYBORRE x Accept & Proceed Listen to Borre Akkersdijk of BYBORRE and David Johnston of Accept & Proceed at Milan Design Week 2024, as they speak with Pasquale Junior Natuzzi, Natuzzi’s Chief Brand Officer. Pasquale, Borre and David talk about diversity, legacy, the power of experimentation, and why the revolution must be televised and amplified...

UNSAID – The conversations we’re not having | BYBORRE x Accept & Proceed Listen to Borre Akkersdijk of BYBORRE and David Johnston of Accept & Proceed at Milan Design Week 2024, as they speak with design researcher and lecturer Delfina Fantini Van Ditmar.  Delfina, David and Borre talk about alternative design futures, regeneration, systemic thinking and the importance of reconceptualising...

UNSAID — The conversations we’re not having | BYBORRE x Accept & Proceed Listen to Borre Akkersdijk of BYBORRE and David Johnston of Accept & Proceed at Milan Design Week 2024, as they speak with Zowie Broach, Head of MA Fashion at RCA.  Borre, David and Zowie discuss paradigm shifts in design, consumption, the future of education, the crossed lines between dopamine and desire, and more. -...

UNSAID — The conversations we’re not having | BYBORRE x Accept & Proceed At  Milan Design Week last year, the Accept & Proceed team was extremely inspired by BYBORRE’s ‘Elephant in the Room’ and how it unlocked necessary conversations about transparency and accountability. One year later, Borre Akkersdijk and David Johnston are back in Milan, joining forces. At Vanity Fair's Garden of...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

“ 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...

“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 Analy...

“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 tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today and the nomadic research studio Unknown Fields . The pair discuss how ‘humanness’ in the future will exis...

“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 & Proceed's founder David Johnston meets with Julia Watson, an Australian designer of urban, indigenous, and spiritual landscapes and aut...

"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 Laboratories. The duo discuss Sikhism, running Dark Matter Labs, the values and rationale behind running a business in an untraditional way and reco...