#anEXISTENTIALTRUTH – A THEORY OF 'THINGS’

Did you become who you are - naturally? Episode 1.0 brings to you an introduction about questioning and understanding how we 'become' who we are through cultures and identity. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Freud Museum London. What is the effect of culture on the unconscious?, 2018. ² ARTE France & Associés. Butler, J. Interview; part 1/6, 2008. ³ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

What do you see? What do you believe? Episode 2.0 is inspired by the song Façade of Reality by Epica and how the reality we believe is a result of what we individually perceive. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Epica.

Why do we 'become'? This episode briefly explores how our choices are influenced. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Nightwish. Dead to the world - song lyrics, 2002. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

This episode highlights how the media can dramatically shape reality. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

Episode 5.0 delves into how cultures and especially Popular Culture create inauthentic ideologies about 'becoming.' ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Charles Miceli. Descartes' “I think, therefore I am,” 2018. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

This episode looks into how 'things' help us define life. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Baudrillard, J. The system of objects, 2005. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

In this episode, we look into where the endless human desire has led us. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Baudrillard, J. The system of objects, 2005. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Nightwish. Planet Hell - design + story inspired by song lyrics, 2004. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Chaplin, C. Modern Times, 1936. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

Is the world stuck on 'repeat'? Hear this short story about what could possibly have happened to the 'truth.' ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Nightwish. Dead to the world - design + story inspired by song lyrics, 2002. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

Inspired by the expressionist science-fiction drama film Metropolis 1927; this episode is about how life is both tangibly and psychologically measured. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Lang, F. Metropolis - design + story inspired by film, 1927. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Nightwish. Dead Boy's Poem - song lyrics, 2000. ² Frank D. Miele. The Media Matrix: What If Everything You Know Is Fake, 2019. ³ Warner Bros. The Matrix, 1999. ⁴ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

Our natural human body is for us to individually use. This episode highlights how through objectifying, we define who we are. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Elsevier Inc. Objectification Theory, Self-Objectification, and Body Image, 2012. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Baudrillard, J. The system of objects, 2005. ² Turkle, S. Alone together: why we expect more from technology and less from each other, 2011. ³ Epica. Façade of Reality - design + story inspired by song lyrics, 2003. ⁴ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

A brief introduction to a theory of 'things' and questioning reality. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Haraway, D. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, the Reinvention of Nature, 1991. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

'Things' in life can make us all different, however in the end we are all the same. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Chekhov, A. ² Kamelot. Memento Mori - design + story inspired by song, 2005. ³ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

This episode is some philosophy about how the human evolution versus revolution; can dramatically transform the world we live in. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Haraway, D. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, the Reinvention of Nature, 1991. ² Kamelot. Revolution - design + story inspired by song lyrics, 2015. ³ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Nightwish & Richard Dawkins. The Greatest Show on Earth - design + story inspired by song lyrics, 2015. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

Apart from a naked human body, we are born with no 'thing.' This episode contemplates how we realistically and imaginarily create ourselves and life. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ American Medical Association. AMA Adopts New Policies at Annual Meeting, 2011. ² Chambers, I. Culture after humanism: history, culture, subjectivity, 2005. ³ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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.' ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Epica. Design your universe - design + story inspired by song lyrics, 2009. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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.' ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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 ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Turkle, S. The second self: computers and the human spirit, 2005. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Theatre of Tragedy. Senseless - song lyrics, 2006. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

Even the colours at DODI have got their own reason and a little story! ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

This is how the labeL at DODI was born. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

In this episode we reveal why RIBA Architect Nael Kazma designed the DODI logo. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Nael Kazma. Logo design. ² Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Skin + Bones. Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture. Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, 2008. ² UF/IFAS Extension. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Its Relation to Learning and Achievement. ³ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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, ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.

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. ━━━━━━━━━━ References + Credits ¹ Thomasin Lockwood. Voice over. Researched, written + created by © dodi kazma, 2020.