Did you become who you are - naturally?
What do you see? What do you believe?
Why do we 'become'? This episode briefly explores how our choices are influenced.
This episode highlights how the media can dramatically shape reality.
Episode 5.0 delves into how cultures and especially Popular Culture create inauthentic ideologies about 'becoming.'
This episode looks into how 'things' help us define life.
In this episode, we look into where the endless human desire has led us.
Inspired by the symphonic metal song Planet Hell by Nightwish, in this episode we talk about how mankind have turned Planet Earth into a battleground.
The artwork of this episode is a modern replica of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times film poster. Listen to this synopsis about how we are creating a rather inauthentic reality.
Is the world stuck on 'repeat'? Hear this short story about what could possibly have happened to the 'truth.'
Inspired by the expressionist science-fiction drama film Metropolis 1927; this episode is about how life is both tangibly and psychologically measured.
Although the Matrix is just a film, this episode analyses how digital culture and the media might have actually gotten us unconsciously stuck in a fabricated reality.
Our natural human body is for us to individually use. This episode highlights how through objectifying, we define who we are.
If it was not for reflective devices such as a mirror, would you know what you look like? This episodes studies how the reflection of our human identity can be biased in our modern age.
A brief introduction to a theory of 'things' and questioning reality.
As far as history goes, humans walked around naked in nature. Listen to this synopsis about how over centuries; we learned to define life through our authentic human body as well as the earth we live on.
Is that every 'thing' we can possibly have on Planet Earth? This episode is a brief summary about how our world is probably at its peak, whilst our natural environment is being damaged.
Who, why and what are you? This episode interprets one of life's biggest questions by using some tangible logic about how we make sense of our human existence.
'Things' in life can make us all different, however in the end we are all the same.
Inspired by a real-life story, listen to this episode about how becoming consciously aware - we can create a 'truer' self-representation despite what life throws at us.
This episode is some philosophy about how the human evolution versus revolution; can dramatically transform the world we live in.
With dramatic music and the performance of life, being the main influences of this design + fashion + philosophy podcast, this episode, is inspired by the song the Greatest Show on Earth by Nightwish, as well as the philosophy Richard Dawkins proclaims in the song.
Apart from a naked human body, we are born with no 'thing.' This episode contemplates how we realistically and imaginarily create ourselves and life.
Every 'thing' has been designed, even you! Remarkably inspired by the song Design your universe by Epica, the philosophy of this episode was realised on the basis of how Design is more than just a drawing or a visual 'thing.'
With so many 'things' and distractions in life, some big questions remain unanswered. This episode is a theoretical review about how reality has been designed since humanity started centuries ago.
This episode proclaims why we no longer walk around naked in pure nature; as well as why and how fashion is one of the most paramount and lifetime 'thing.'
This episode is about how we engineer personas to the natural human body in the digital age as well as how our modern existence is "shaped by tools." ¹
In this episode we explore why identities can be playful and how at DODI, we believe a 'truer' personal reality can be created through fashion.
Whilst realising reality's repetitiveness and inauthenticity - our modern world seems to have become mundanely grey. In this episode we reveal how the design concept at DODI was rather unconsciously and creatively inspired.
Even the colours at DODI have got their own reason and a little story!
This is how the labeL at DODI was born.
In this episode we reveal why RIBA Architect Nael Kazma designed the DODI logo.
This episode is about why and how the architecture of fashioning the human body at the labeL at DODI, is more than just what Maslow highlighted in the Hierarchy of Needs.
Veritas - ‘a Goddess of Truth.’ This is who the labeL believes a woman has to be. The 3 foundational traits in this episode have been inspired and created from real life stories,
To us fashion is more than just the clothes we wear. This brief episode is about why and how at DODI we believe fashion and psychology are interlinked.
Yes, we probably did exist without a choice but this is the philosophy behind why and how at DODI we are intellectually inspired to question and challenge what it means ‘to be’ and ‘to exist’ through design and fashion.
Inspiration is absolutely everywhere but to authentically create a better quality lifestyle, the labeL looks beyond the Fashion industry to meticulously design and craft the closest 'thing' that our bodies live in, clothes.
All that philosophy you have been listening to in all the previous 37 episodes - this one reveals a little bit about the secret we have been perfecting at DODI since 2011, as well as the work we are doing to pull every 'thing' together in our London studio.