Are we afraid of the body? – a Live podcast

FleshLuxury
Written By Eliot Salandy Brown

Are we afraid of the body? – a Live podcast

FleshLuxury
Written By Eliot Salandy Brown

This article is part of our special series on Flesh

With Maisie Cousins and Daphnée Hor

This is a special edition of the ReD podcast live from Paris, France, where we hosted a discussion with British photographer Maisie Cousins, and Pernod Ricard’s head of foresight, Daphnée Hor, at the beautiful Lafayette Anticipations, a gallery space in the heart of Paris. 

Are We Afraid Of The Body? was the topic of conversation, a question that sits right at the heart of our ongoing content series all about our changing relationship to flesh.

Hosted by ReD’s Sandra Cariglio, they discuss the changing ways bodies are considered and represented in our age of sanitised, Instagram-ready aesthetics, the growing fascination with perishability, waste and decomposition, and finally, ask whether we’re entering a germ renaissance.

Host: Sandra Cariglio

Guests: Maisie Cousins & Daphnée Hor

Introduced by Matthew Janney

Eliot Salandy Brown

Eliot heads ReD Associates’ mobility/automotive practice. In this work, he leads projects that set strategic directions for how mobility and automotive companies approach the challenges and opportunities facing the industry. The projects under his leadership include a foundational study investigating the future value of driverless cars to our cities and communities, and a new approach to digital service innovation for a major automotive company. In all of his work with clients, Eliot is focused on ensuring that human needs and behavior are fully integrated into the development of new technologies.

He has lectured and run courses on automotive, corporate strategy, and executive MBAs at New York University, Columbia University, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, and Duke University; and his client work was awarded the Gold Award in 2018 from the Industrial Designers Society of America (ISDA). Eliot, a British-Trinidadian, holds a Masters in Sociology from the London School of Economics.

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