September 4, 2024, NEW YORK — The New York–based award-winning media company The Slowdown announces the forthcoming 10th season of its celebrated flagship podcast Time Sensitive, which will debut on September 4. Kicking off with an episode featuring Rita Sodi, the chef-owner of I Sodi and co-owner of Via Carota and The Commerce Inn in New York’s West Village, the 10-episode season will also include conversations with the artist Francesco Clemente; the architecture critic Paul Goldberger; the novelist and essayist Jonathan Lethem; the Harvard professor and African American studies scholar Sarah Lewis; the lighting designer Lindsey Adelman; and the creative director, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Nachson Mimran.

In September, Mimran’s interview, to take place at The Lobby hospitality conference in Copenhagen, will be the series’s second-ever live taping, following Ep. 106 with the chef Massimo Bottura. Goldberger’s episode was recorded in July at the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and will be the show’s third “site-specific” conversation, following Ep. 96 with the theater director and playwright Robert Wilson, recorded in the archive room of the Watermill Center in Water Mill, New York, and Ep. 101 with the architect and furniture maker Mira Nakashima, recorded in the Sanso Villa on the grounds of the George Nakashima Woodworkers compound in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

Hosted by The Slowdown’s co-founder, the writer, editor, and journalist Spencer Bailey, Time Sensitive features candid, revealing long-form interviews with some of the most prominent figures in art, architecture, design, fashion, food, technology, and beyond about their lives and work through the lens of time. Every interview has taken place in person, whether at the company’s Brooklyn Heights recording studio or at a specially chosen off-site location. In the 2024 Webby Awards, it was named an Arts & Culture Podcast honoree and Interview/Talk Show finalist.

“Given that the entire podcast is at its heart about time, it’s decidedly meta to be reflecting on this five-year, ten-season milestone,” Bailey says. “But what this series continues to make clear to me is that there remains a vast audience out there in the ether of podcast-land that truly values time—and, in particular, thinking deeply about time. I’m grateful to be on this extraordinary journey with each and every one of them.”

To date, Time Sensitive has seen almost 2 million downloads, with an average of around 17,000 downloads per episode and the most-listened-to episode at 125,000+ downloads.

Previous Time Sensitive guests include:

Peter Sarsgaard, actor (Ep. 1)
Bjarke Ingels, architect (Ep. 4)
Teresita Fernández, artist (Ep. 5)
Elizabeth Diller, architect (Ep. 9)
Neri Oxman, designer (Ep. 16)
David Duchovny, actor (Ep. 21)
Rashid Johnson, artist (Ep. 25)
Gabriela Hearst, fashion designer (Ep. 32)
Daniel Boulud, chef (Ep. 38)
Eileen FIsher, fashion designer (Ep. 44)
Billie Tsien, architect (Ep. 45)
Elizabeth Alexander, poet and Mellon Foundation president (Ep. 52)
Daniel Humm, chef (Ep. 53)
Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter and composer (Ep. 55)
Claudia Rankine, poet and author (Ep. 60)
Paola Antonelli, senior curator, architecture and design, MoMA (Ep. 64)
Jhumpa Lahiri, novelist, writer, and translator (Ep. 69)
Roxane Gay, writer and social commentator (Ep. 75)
Nick Cave, artist (Ep. 86)
Ari Shapiro, NPR radio journalist and “All Things Considered” host (Ep. 89)
Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School dean and author (Ep. 91)
Edmund de Waal, artist (Ep. 98)
Ian Schrager, hospitality impresario and Studio 54 co-founder (Ep. 100)
Paul Smith, fashion designer (Ep. 109)
Hiroshi Sugimoto, artist and photographer (Ep. 114)

Time Sensitive is available at timesensitive.fm—where visitors can discover a magazine-like experience that includes a full transcript of each episode, hyperlinks, corresponding visuals, and pull quotes—as well as on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and all other major podcast platforms.

ABOUT THE SLOWDOWN
Founded in 2019, The Slowdown is a culture-forward media company that believes the greatest luxury is time. A collective of editors, writers, photographers, filmmakers, producers, creative directors, and strategists, we craft stories with simplicity, clarity, and beauty. We make a long-form interview podcast on the subject of time and a newsletter that goes out to 11,000+ subscribers. We also host and organize intimate live talks and events. In collaboration with select mission-aligned companies, we provide high-level editorial direction, curation, and production. Our team helps brands tell their stories with meaning and feeling across a wide range of media, from books and publications to film and audio.

ABOUT SPENCER BAILEY
Spencer Bailey is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the New York–based media company The Slowdown and host of the Time Sensitive podcast. He is also the editor-at-large of book publisher Phaidon. A writer, editor, and journalist, he has written at length about architecture, art, culture, and design, and contributed to publications such as Town & Country, The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Fortune. From 2013 to 2018, Bailey was the editor-in-chief of Surface magazine. He is the author of several books, including In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials (2020), and serves as co-chair of the board of trustees of the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York. In 2023 and 2024, he was named to the Wallpaper USA 300 and USA 400 lists as a curator “preserving and promoting creative culture.”

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