Creative lives measured through time.
Time Sensitive treats time as a way into creative lives, not as a gimmick. Its conversations move from objects, buildings, exhibitions, music, and movement toward questions of memory, material, legacy, and presence.
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Time Sensitive is an interview series for listeners who want creative work treated with patience and seriousness. Its subject is time, but not in an abstract self-help sense. Time appears in materials, buildings, records, movement, archives, markets, neighborhoods, and the long discipline of practice. The show’s conversations tend to begin from something tangible. A handmade audio system becomes a way to talk about sound as feeling. A museum extension becomes a question about memory, safety, urban resistance, and architectural inheritance. A dance career becomes a record of repetition, audience attention, and minimalist form. The tone is warm, researched, and exact. It does not hurry toward lessons. Instead, it gives artists, designers, architects, curators, and cultural leaders enough space to explain how a body of work accumulated its shape. Recent episodes range across Devon Turnbull’s hi-fi systems and OGIS, Shohei Shigematsu’s thinking about memorable space, Lucinda Childs’s choreography, and Hans Ulrich Obrist’s restless web of art, architecture, fashion, philosophy, technology, music, writing, and poetry. Jennie C. Jones brings minimalism, Black history, music history, and the perception of sound in space into the same frame. Noah Horowitz speaks from the overlap of art history, economics, fairs, institutions, and global community. Theaster Gates connects pottery, urbanism, archives, cultural infrastructure, Chicago, and Japan. Jay Osgerby returns industrial design to materiality, longevity, making, and the emotional charge of objects. Across these conversations, the show keeps asking what survives a moment. It is attentive to the afterlife of things. Buildings change uses. Objects gather memory. Art institutions become meeting grounds. Materials weather, vitrify, or resonate. The strongest episodes make craft feel like a moral and historical practice rather than a portfolio of finished work. Time Sensitive suits listeners who like design talk with intellectual range, human looseness, and room for reflection.
Made for: For listeners interested in design, art, architecture, sound, dance, cultural institutions, and the slower thinking behind lasting work. It suits people who prefer reflective interviews over quick takeaways.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its ability to connect biography, material practice, and cultural legacy through specific objects and places. It treats craft as a record of memory, ethics, community, and time.
Candid, revealing long-form conversations with leading minds about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey interviews each guest about how they think about time broadly and how specific moments in time have shaped who they are today. Explore more at timesensitive.fm
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Time Sensitive makes architecture, design, sound, and writing tangible by tracing the choices and memories behind the work.
Time Sensitive treats a creative career as a record of choices shaped by patience, age, and memory. Spencer Bailey asks guests to connect how they work with how they spend their lives, then stays with the practical detail: John Pawson on the care hidden inside apparent…
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A calm look at audio systems built to make recorded music feel alive.
Devin Turnbull treats audio as a way into feeling, and the piece tracks that idea from OGIS to the larger museum-scale work it now supports. It keeps a steady balance between engineering, aesthetics, and the small pull of hearing music in a room.
A measured conversation about architecture, urbanism, and what buildings leave behind.
Set against a blizzard-driven outage at the Hotel Chelsea, Shohei Shigematsu's conversation keeps circling back to cities, urbanism, mixed-use design, and the public life of art.
A careful conversation about design, memory, and the long life of made things.
Jay Osgerby treats design as a way objects hold memory, and that idea gives the episode its calm center. The discussion moves through Barber Osgerby's deliberate, material-first practice and on to the Olympic torch, the Bodleian library chair, and the Portsmouth Cathedral bench,…
A reflective conversation about aging, money, and making room for peace and joy.
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Host Spencer Bailey interviews photographer and artist Hiroshi Sugimoto about his work exploring time through photography.
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Host Spencer Bailey interviews novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen about his life, work, and perspectives on time, memory, and America's cultural divisions.
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Host Spencer Bailey interviews writer Lucy Sant about her memoir detailing her gender transition and reflections on time, family, and identity.
Host Spencer Bailey interviews chef Massimo Bottura about time, creativity, and his work in food and philanthropy.
Host Spencer Bailey interviews curator Helen Molesworth about her career, new book, and insights into the art world.
Host Spencer Bailey interviews architect Annabelle Selldorf about her career, design philosophy, and notable projects.
Host Spencer Bailey interviews landscape architect Walter Hood about his work creating transformative public spaces that challenge conventional thinking and empower marginalized communities.
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