Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
Marian Goodell, CEO of Burning Man Project, talks with a lively audience as part of Robot Heart’s Residency in Oakland, California. She is joined by Candace Locklear (aka Evil Pippi), Erin Douglas of the Black Burner Project, and Robot Heart’s Justin Schaffer and Satya Kamdar.
It’s casual. It’s layered. It’s a room of Burners to be.
What forms can culture jamming take? Where does Burning Man bridge the divide to bring people together? How have pillars of our culture evolved from awkward beginnings?
They swap stories about the perks of unbranding. They joke about gifting and regifting, and the spectrum between talismans and swag. They go off the rails into how mainstream culture plays with Burning Man tropes.
Then they go beyond making a party in the desert, out into the world, to the Regional Network as a living embodiment of ‘each one teach one.’ They show how collaboration creates the community. They explore actually active inclusivity, and the question “Who Are We?”
About Marian: burningman.org/about/about-us/people/board-of-directors/#MarianGoodell
Black Burner Project: blackburnerproject.com
Burning Man LIVE: Evolution of Robot Heart: burningman.org/podcast/the-evolution-of-robot-heart
Burning Man LIVE: Candace Locklear on Culture Jamming and Welcoming: burningman.org/podcast/candace-locklear-on-culture-jamming-and-welcoming
Our guests
Marian Goodell is the first Chief Executive Officer of Burning Man Project, the nonprofit that produces the world-renowned Burning Man event and supports the growing global network of people and organizations it has inspired.
Marian’s stewardship of Burning Man’s anti-consumerist, participatory, and celebratory culture has set in on a seemingly unstoppable growth path. Burning Man communities and leaders are active in 37 countries and collectively produce more than 100 events annually.
Today Burning Man’s largest event is home to 80,000 thinkers, makers, and creative problem-solvers who come together each year in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to build the world’s most imaginative, experimental city. Burning Man has grown from the scrappy, anarchist gathering of a few thousand people Marian first attended in 1995, into an international cultural movement that sparks innovation in design, business, technology, education, and urban planning.
Marian is a keen connector and storyteller. Driven by her belief that we can do more together than we can do alone, she brings together people, ideas, and resources in creative and unexpected ways that move organizations and communities forward.
Marian Goodell, CEO of Burning Man Project, talks with a lively audience as part of Robot Heart’s Residency in Oakland, California. She is joined by Candace Locklear (aka Evil Pippi), Erin Douglas of the Black Burner Project, and Robot Heart’s Justin Schaffer and Satya Kamdar.
It’s casual. It’s layered. It’s a room of Burners to be.
What forms can culture jamming take? Where does Burning Man bridge the divide to bring people together? How have pillars of our culture evolved from awkward beginnings?
They swap stories about the perks of unbranding. They joke about gifting and regifting, and the spectrum between talismans and swag. They go off the rails into how mainstream culture plays with Burning Man tropes.
Then they go beyond making a party in the desert, out into the world, to the Regional Network as a living embodiment of ‘each one teach one.’ They show how collaboration creates the community. They explore actually active inclusivity, and the question “Who Are We?”
About Marian: burningman.org/about/about-us/people/board-of-directors/#MarianGoodell
Black Burner Project: blackburnerproject.com
Burning Man LIVE: Evolution of Robot Heart: burningman.org/podcast/the-evolution-of-robot-heart
Burning Man LIVE: Candace Locklear on Culture Jamming and Welcoming: burningman.org/podcast/candace-locklear-on-culture-jamming-and-welcoming
Our guests
Marian Goodell is the first Chief Executive Officer of Burning Man Project, the nonprofit that produces the world-renowned Burning Man event and supports the growing global network of people and organizations it has inspired.
Marian’s stewardship of Burning Man’s anti-consumerist, participatory, and celebratory culture has set in on a seemingly unstoppable growth path. Burning Man communities and leaders are active in 37 countries and collectively produce more than 100 events annually.
Today Burning Man’s largest event is home to 80,000 thinkers, makers, and creative problem-solvers who come together each year in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to build the world’s most imaginative, experimental city. Burning Man has grown from the scrappy, anarchist gathering of a few thousand people Marian first attended in 1995, into an international cultural movement that sparks innovation in design, business, technology, education, and urban planning.
Marian is a keen connector and storyteller. Driven by her belief that we can do more together than we can do alone, she brings together people, ideas, and resources in creative and unexpected ways that move organizations and communities forward.
