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Design Thinking RoundtableSocial Innovator in Residence: Meena KadriMeena is a social innovation consultant and design strategist tackling complex social challenges through human-centered design and community engagement dedicated to tackling complex social challenges through human-centered design and community engagement. With a background in social anthropology and design, she has worked across diverse settings, from urban slums to corporate boardrooms. Previously, Meena spent eight years at IDEO, where she led community engagement for OpenIDEO and advised IDEO U’s initiatives. Her expertise lies in fostering collaboration, equity, and innovation to drive meaningful change. Born in Aotearoa New Zealand with Indian ancestry, she brings a global perspective to...2025-05-0437 min
Design Thinking RoundtableEntering and Breaking DesignAdriana Valdez Young is a design researcher with more than 15 years of leading design research that focuses on centering the experiences of historically excluded and underrepresented people for startups, government, non-profits, and corporate clients. . She advises inclusive research at SOUR, a global design studio with the mission to address social and urban problems, servers as associate chair of the MFA of Interaction design at the School of Visual Arts, and writes about inclusive design for UX Magazine. Prior to that she led research and strategy at Stae, a platform for cities to manage civic data and new mobilities. She w...2025-03-1030 min
Bitalk#215: PORTUGUESES MEDROSOS ESTÃO A SABOTAR O NOSSO PAÍS? c/ José Crespo de CarvalhoNeste Bitalk vamos descobrir porque os Portugueses têm tanto medo de arriscar com José Crespo de Carvalho, Professor Catedrático no ISCTE – IUL. 😱🚀 Os nossos líderes só causam tragédias? 💥😔 Porque temos tanto medo de errar? 🤔💡 Existe mesmo o gene da liderança? 🧬👑 A Desglobalização já começou? 🌍📉 Já estamos na 3ª Guerra Mundial? ⚔️🌐 Temos uma Europa Castrada? 🇪🇺🔒 Temos a doença da democracia? 🏛️💔 A Inteligência Artificial está a fugir da Europa? 🤖🚶♂️
José, para além de ser Professor Catedrático no ISCTE – IUL, também preside à Comissão Executiva do INDEG-ISCTE Executive Education. Com uma sólida carreira académica, já foi Professor Catedrático na NOVA SBE e ocupou cargos de relevo c...2025-01-221h 10
Design Thinking RoundtableTales of the Field: Vila Feliz Cidade by Carlos Mendes GonçalvesTales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and people’s lives.
In this episode, we talked with Carlos Mendes Gonçalves, the founder and CEO of Case Mendes Gonçalves...2025-01-1209 min
Design Thinking RoundtableHuman-centered design and systems thinking for social impact and community engagement.Robert Fabricant is Co-Founder of Dalberg Design, where he brings human-centered design and systems thinking to clients looking for creative approaches to breakthrough innovation and expanded collaborations in social impact and community engagement. He leads an extremely diverse team with studios in Dakar, Mexico City, Mumbai, Nairobi and New York, leveraging Dalberg’s global footprint and capabilities. Much of his portfolio is focused on public health, serving as the lead design partner to USAID’s Global Health Bureau. A born and raised New Yorker, Robert began his career at a local criminal justice non-profit focused on New York State cour...2024-12-2237 min
Design Thinking RoundtableSocial Innovator in Residence: Engin AyazEngin Ayaz, a transdisciplinary designer and strategist with a background in architecture, systems thinking, and interaction design. He is the co-founder of ATÖLYE, a design and innovation consultancy, which amplifies the impact of purpose-driven leaders by transforming people, places and experiences through the power of communities.
Engin received a dual degree in Architectural Design and Engineering from Stanford University, and a master's degree in Interactive Design and Media Arts from Tisch School of Arts, ITP of New York University.
His work has been exhibited worldwide and
received awards from Core77, Architizer, Arkitera, World Architecture C...2024-12-1533 min
Design Thinking RoundtableRadical participatory designVictor Udoewa is Service Design Lead for the CDC (centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Prior to this role, Victor was Chief Technology Officer, Chief experience Officer and Service Design Lead at NASA. Prior to NASA, Victor served as the Director of Strategy at 18F, a civic consultancy for the federal government inside the federal government. Previously, as a Global Education Instructional Designer and Training Development Specialist at Google, he designed
learning experiences and learning software for people in low-to-middle-income countries around the world.
In this episode, Victor shared with us his "non-linear" journey to being a se...2024-06-3034 min
Design Thinking RoundtableSocial Workers Who Design: trauma-responsive design and design of careRachael Dietkus is a social worker-designer. Her practice, research, and writing at the intersections of social work values, trauma-responsive principles, and care-focused design research methods. Rachael is the founder of Social Workers Who Design and an active member of the Design
Justice Network and the Social Work Futures Lab. Since September 2022, she has served as a Digital Services
Expert in Design and Social Work and a Trauma-Informed Practice Subject Matter Expert with the United States Digital Service, a design and tech unit under the White House.
In this episode, Rachael reflects on the different civic and public interest r...2024-06-0432 min
Design Thinking RoundtableSocial Innovator in Residence: João BritesJoão Brites is an entrepreneur, breakdancer, and agroforester who has lived in Portugal, Mexico, United States, Brazil and Spain (his current home). Currently, João is Director of Growth & Innovation at HowGood, a SaaS platform that helps companies measure, improve, and communicate their social and environmental impact. Prior to HowGood, João worked as Global Director of Sustainable Development at AB InBev and co-founded initiatives like Movimento Transformers, the Amazon Summer School, and Carbono Biodiverso. João is the recipient of Nova’s Impactful Alumni Award, the Do Something Ambassador Award, and was at age 19 one of the world’...2024-05-1028 min
Design Thinking RoundtableTales of the Field: Amplio Talking Books in GhanaTales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and people’s lives.
In this episode, we talked with Gilbert Nkpeniyeng, who after working as a program officer with Amplio Network, is curr...2024-02-0618 min
Design Thinking RoundtableTales of the Field: Street Lab, reinventing the street through pop-upsTales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and people’s lives.
In this episode, we talked with Leslie Davol, co-founder and executive director of Street Lab, a nonp...2023-12-1717 min
Design Thinking RoundtableCo-design for social impactTanya Bhandari is a communication designer from India who has been working in the social impact space for over a decade. Currently she is the Design Director at YLabs in Kigali, Rwanda. She was previously Design Lead at UNICEF’s Office of Innovation (New York), Design Fellow at Center for Urban Pedagogy (New York), and Designer at Teach for India (Mumbai.)
In this episode, reflecting on the projects she has been involved, Tanya stressed the power of co-design, where young people lead the process and participate from beginning to end. Tanya talked about prototyping as a form of research and how to prot...2023-11-2831 min
Sob Escuta"Maior desafio do sistema é falta de professores”Pedro Freitas, investigador da Nova SBE, defende que era "importante" haver no Orçamento um "sinal" sobre o recrutamento de professores noutras áreas, para responder ao problema da falta de docentes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2023-10-1937 min
Design Thinking RoundtableSocial Innovator in Residence: Liz GerberLiz Gerber is a professor at Northwestern University, co-director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and faculty founder of Design for America, a national award-winning network of interdisciplinary students who work together to solve problems they care about in their community. Liz works at the works at the intersection of design, social computing, and organizational behavior to understand the future of collaboration and in particular. for social impact. Gerber co-directs the Delta Lab whose mission is to create technology-based systems to enhance learning, collaboration, and performance. Gerber has received awards for her research and teaching from the...2023-09-2827 min
Marketing business-to-business: o podcast#48 - Venda complexa em tempos complicados: o que aprendemos nestes anos de mudança - com Milton CabralSe a permanente mudança já era o contexto em que todos vivíamos há vários anos, nestes mais recentes isto tornou-se ainda mais verdade. Ainda não tínhamos acabado de sair de uma pandemia e entramos numa guerra, com consequências, a todos os níveis, que ninguém ainda sabe quais serão. Num cenário assim, como é que uma empresa – especialmente quando tem de gerir ciclos de decisão longos, que exigem alguma visibilidade sobre o futuro – continua a vender?
Mudança e transformação são preocupações constantes para o convidado deste episódio...2023-09-1352 min
Design Thinking RoundtableDesign for government, climate and scienceSara Camnasio is a multi-disciplinary designer and researcher focused on government (public services), science, and climate projects. Her work
spans from integrating design mindsets into environmental and conservation projects, creating educational curricula to engage students on STEAM topics, to helping improve public and private services and products. After spending 5 years conducting Astrophysics research at the American Museum of Natural History and at telescopes around the world for 5 years, Sara decided to dive into design to apply design thinking methods to science and conservation projects. She’s been a National
Geographic Explorer since 2015, and through this community, she has led and...2023-07-2826 min
Design Thinking RoundtableSocial Innovator in Residence: Isaac JumbaIsaac is the founder of Mideva Labs - a research, design and innovation consultancy studio based in Nairobi Kenya, and a co-founder of Idea Studio Africa - a community-powered learning, skills development and apprenticeship studio helping young professionals build meaningful career pathways in innovation and
entrepreneurship. Isaac previously co-founded the Africa YES Program - a 6-month leadership and entrepreneurship accelerator program for young social entrepreneurs in Kenya, which has supported over 80 entrepreneurs to launch social ventures since 2019.
Isaac has over 8 years of experience working in the design, social innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem across Africa and supporting initiatives around...2023-05-1734 min
Conversas à Solta#9 - Pedro Santa Clara - Revolução no Ensino Superior e no mundo do trabalhoNo nono episódio do podcast "Conversas à Solta", o convidado foi Pedro Santa Clara, Professor Catedrático e diretor da Escola 42. Conversámos sobre a sua carreira académica e veia empreendedora, a revolução no Ensino Superior e a importância crescente das soft skills na era da inteligência artificial. Discutimos também a falta de professores em Portugal e a atual situação de estagnação do país. Junte-se a nós nesta conversa fascinante sobre o futuro da educação, do trabalho e de Portugal.
🟢Apoie a Associação LAD, seja com uma partilha ou de form...2023-04-081h 03
Design Thinking RoundtableCommunity, Co-design and Intentional relationshipsHarmonie Coleman is a Senior Community Engagement Manager at IDEO.org. In this role, she collaborates closely with design teams, partners, and local community members to advance equitable practices in design research and community co-design methods across the organization. She specializes in designing transformative experiences, healing-centered facilitation, participatory design methods, and recruiting community members with lived experience. Her past experiences as a teacher and community organizer both deepen her expertise and ground her current work and interests. Harmonie has a Master of Education from Harvard University and a Bachelor in Psychology and Race and Difference Studies from Emory University. 2023-03-2930 min
Design Thinking RoundtableDesigning for care and liveable proximityEzio Manzini is one of the world's leading and provocative thinkers in design for sustainability and social innovation — considered a major driver of sustainable changes. These two joint interests led him to start DESIS: an international network of schools of design specifically active in the field of design for social innovation and sustainability. Currently, Ezio is President of DESIS Network and Honorary Professor at the Politecnico di Milano. He has been guest professor in several design schools world-wide such as Elisava-Design School and Engineering (Barcelona), Tongji University (Shanghai), University of the Arts (London), CPUT (Cape town), and Parsons - The...2023-02-2835 min
Pergunta SimplesEduardo Costa | Quanto vale a saúde?Estou entre a matemática das coisas e a frase “é a economia, estúpido”.
Estas coisas dos números sempre me fascinaram. Talvez um pouco menos do que as palavras.
É que é mais difícil encontrar poemas numa folha de cálculo.
Quero partilhar convosco a minha difícil relação com a matemática. Com aquela matemática das letras misturadas com números, de equações nublosas e resultados incompreensíveis.
Fascinam-me estes desenhos de contas. De representação de uma realidade que não compreendo.
Mas deixem-me por um momento contar a pequena história da minha relação com a matemática.
Junta e...2023-01-2557 min
Design Thinking RoundtableDesign Thinking for HealthBon Ku is an emergency physician, professor and host of the Design Lab podcast. He is the Assistant Dean for Health and Design and leads the Medicine+Design initiatives at Thomas Jefferson University. As the Director of the Health Design Lab, he created the first design thinking program at a medical school. Bon is creating design-minded solutions to improve patient health. Bon co-wrote the book, Health Design Thinking, with Ellen Lupton and was a regular panelist on the primetime medical TV show Chasing the Cure with Ann Curry. In this episode, Bon talks about the role of design and...2022-12-1730 min
Design Thinking RoundtableDesign as a tool for social change, impact, and innovationIn this episode, our guest was Laetitia Wolff, a creative strategist, design curator, published author, and self-described cultural engineer and the former director of strategic initiatives at AIGA in NY. Laetitia lives, works and teaches in the South of France following 20+ years spent in New York. She consults and creates projects that generate new discourses, meaningful practices and experiences using design as a tool for social change, impact, and innovation. She brings design to cities, through research-action projects, curated programs, and citizen engagement initiatives. She teaches at Besign, The Sustainable Design School, design impact and partnership-based courses to imagine the c...2022-11-2833 min
Design Thinking RoundtableSocial Innovator in Residence: Karine SarkissianKarine Sarkissian is a founding partner at Tamar Capital (2016), a single-family office based between the Middle East, the UK, and the US. She oversees the FO’s Impact and Venture portfolio. Designer and Design Strategist by background, Karine has extensive experience in social innovation for urban and economic development initiatives within New York City and Internationally. Leveraging her expertise, she co-founded Le Studio as part of Tamar Capital to actively support portfolio companies and investors alike through design, impact measurement, and strategy development. Since inception 2 years ago, Le Studio has supported more than 50 aspiring entrepreneurs across 4 continents.
Ka...2022-10-1227 min
Design Thinking RoundtableTales of the Field: Tonya Gayle, Executive Director of Green City Force and advocate for economic justice for young people of colorTales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and people’s lives.
In this episode, we talked with Tonya Gayle, Executive Director of Green City Force (GCF) and an advocate for econ...2022-09-0416 min
45 Graus#127 Fernando Soares e Ricardo Marvão - Academia «Próxima Geração»Ricardo Marvão (que já foi convidado do episódio #47) é co-fundador Beta-i, empreendedor, apaixonado por educação e espaço. É formado em Engenharia Informática, com mestrado em Aeroespacial. Co-fundou vários projetos educacionais em Portugal como a Singularity University (escola para executivos), European Innovation Academy (escola de verão de empreendedorismo para estudantes universitários), Próxima Geração (academia para a próxima geração de políticos), o programa executivo Space for Business e a academia Native Scientist. Fernando Soares é economista e é actualmente gestor de investimentos da Alpac Capital, uma sociedade de capital de risco. Antes disso, l...2022-07-2746 min45 Graus#127 Fernando Soares e Ricardo Marvão - Academia «Próxima Geração»Ricardo Marvão (que já foi convidado do episódio #47) é co-fundador Beta-i, empreendedor, apaixonado por educação e espaço. É formado em Engenharia Informática, com mestrado em Aeroespacial. Co-fundou vários projetos educacionais em Portugal como a Singularity University (escola para executivos), European Innovation Academy (escola de verão de empreendedorismo para estudantes universitários), Próxima Geração (academia para a próxima geração de políticos), o programa executivo Space for Business e a academia Native Scientist. Fernando Soares é economista e é actualmente gestor de investimentos da Alpac Capital, uma sociedade de capital de risco. Antes disso, l...2022-07-2746 min
Design Thinking RoundtableDesign Research for SustainabilityIn this episode, I talked with Joana Casaca Lemos, a design researcher passionate about sustainability innovation. Joana runs an independent practice where she supports organisations in ensuring that sustainability is at the forefront of business. She is currently launching Unusual Research - the first global collective of creatives with sustainability expertise. Joana shared with me her view on design for sustainability and related terms like planet-centered design and circular design. The organizations Joana works with are increasingly interested in getting help in making their products and services more sustainable and how this also involves an internal cultural transformation. She...2022-07-1324 min
Design Thinking RoundtableTales of the Field: Pushpa Joshi, a Nepalese social activistTales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and people’s lives.
In this episode, we talked with Pushpa Joshi, a young Nepalese social activist, passionate about the issues of gender and...2022-06-1109 min
45 Graus#122 (1/2) Pedro Freitas - Como tornar a escola (pública) melhor e mais inclusiva?Pedro Freitas é doutorando em Economia na Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), onde é membro do grupo de investigação «Nova Center for the Economics of Education». Tem diversa investigação na área da economia da educação. -> Apoie este projecto e faça parte da comunidade de mecenas do 45 Graus em: 45graus.parafuso.net/apoiar _______________ Índice da conversa (usar marcadores HH:MM para avançar no episódio): (0:00) Introdução (04:28) Início: como têm evoluído os resultados escolares em Portugal nas últimas décadas? | Universalização do pré...2022-05-251h 1445 Graus#122 (1/2) Pedro Freitas - Como tornar a escola (pública) melhor e mais inclusiva?Pedro Freitas é doutorando em Economia na Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), onde é membro do grupo de investigação «Nova Center for the Economics of Education». Tem diversa investigação na área da economia da educação. -> Apoie este projecto e faça parte da comunidade de mecenas do 45 Graus em: 45graus.parafuso.net/apoiar _______________ Índice da conversa (usar marcadores HH:MM para avançar no episódio): (0:00) Introdução (04:28) Início: como têm evoluído os resultados escolares em Portugal nas últimas décadas? | Universalização do pré...2022-05-251h 14
É Ou Não É? - O Grande Debate - PodcastQue futuro para a educação?Começou agora o terceiro período escolar e mais de 20 mil alunos continuam sem professor a alguma disciplina desde o início do ano. No próximo ano, não serão só 20 mil, mas cem mil alunos com falta de professores. O alerta sobre a necessidade de formar e contratar docentes era dado há muitos anos, mas recentemente o estudo da Nova SBE sobre a evolução do problema na próxima década deixou evidente que já não há mais tempo a perder. Em Portugal formam-se anualmente menos de metade dos professores de que as escolas precisam, e est...2022-04-191h 37
Design Thinking RoundtableSocial Innovators in Residence: Lisbeth ShepherdLisbeth Shepherd is Entrepreneur in Residence at MIT's designX and Visiting Lecturer at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning. Her work focuses on how "climate corps" in cities can promote environmental and economic justice.
Shepherd co-founded the Green City Force (GCF) in 2009 to address the dual imperatives of youth unemployment and climate change.She previously coordinated the Clean Energy Corps working group at Green for All, and co-founded Unis-Cité, the leading national youth service program in France. She is an Echoing Green alum, Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow, Audubon “Woman Greening the City,” and White House Youth Jobs+ Champi...2022-04-0136 min
Design Thinking RoundtableDesigning learning experiences for meaningful impactIn this episode, I talked with Ayah Younis, a human centered-designer for social change. With 10-year experience in education in museums, she employs innovative tools and play methods to design learning experiences for children and adults. Ayah shared with me her work using human-centered design to create meaningful experiences in museums as well as in the health centers in Jordan and the region. She emphasized the power of play in reducing boundaries and creating a safe environment. Ayah also highlighted the value of iteration and rapid prototyping in helping create impactful solutions reminding us that human-centered design is a...2022-03-0832 min
Design Thinking RoundtableDesigning for Systemic Change through Community-Centered DesignIn this episode, I talked with Megan Marini, co-founder and Principal, Director of Strategy and Outreach of 3X3, an inclusive and participatory innovation studio designing for systemic change, based in New York City and New Delhi. Over the past decade, they have been bringing communities, the public sector, and private entities together as allies to create social transformation and impact.
Megan is a designer, architect and strategist passionate about community-centered design and designing for justice and systemic change. She shared her work helping civic organizations in various parts of the world to listen to, learn from, and colla...2022-02-1730 min
Design Thinking RoundtableCivic Design and Urban Innovation: Designing Human-Centered NeighborhoodsIn this episode, I talked with Eric Ho, co-founder and Director of Architecture Commons based in Hong Kong, a design agency for urban innovation. Eric is an architect, entrepreneur, and urban thinker passionate about architecture and urban environments that have a lasting impact on society. He described civic design projects he led in New York and in Hong Kong. Eric emphasized the value of cross-sector collaboration (citizens, businesses, institutions and governments) for social innovation while highlighting associated challenges and suggesting that design thinking can be a language to support collaboration. Last, Eric reflected on the challenges to move from d...2021-12-2134 min
Design Thinking RoundtableDesigning for more holistic healthcare experiencesIn this episode, I talked with Javiera Arenas, a design strategist and service designer, from Chile, working at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York. Javi reflected on her practice in designing holistic healthcare experiences. She highlighted the need to take a system view and engage all stakeholders in the process. While acknowledging the difficulties inherent to designing holistic experiences, she also provided great stories on how to use participatory design to co-create spaces that support those who are experiencing a difficult time.
Follow Javi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/javiera-arenas/
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Design Thinking RoundtableDesigning in the Anthropocene with Ben ReasonIn this episode, I talked with Ben Reason, founding partner of pioneering service design studio Livework, created in London in 2001. Ben and I discussed Ben’s article “Designing in the Anthropocene”. Ben reflected on his journey from his early interest in triple bottom line and his current interest in sustainability. He discussed the tensions between theory and practice. He also shared his thoughts on the role of designers as facilitators and the importance of multi-stakeholders collaborations to address complex problems like climate change.
Follow Ben on Twitter @breasy and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breasy/
Credi...2021-11-0529 min
O Poema Ensina a CairLaurinda AlvesLaurinda Alves nasceu em Dezembro de 1961. Estudou no Liceu de Queluz, onde foi aluna de Teresa Belo, mulher do poeta Ruy Belo. Era muito boa aluna a português, e muito boa jogadora de basket, primeiro no Queluz, depois no CIF, onde foi campeã. Aos 17 anos participou num concurso para entrar na RTP, e foi selecionada entre mais de 2 mil candidatos. Como era menor de idade, não podiam legalmente contratá-la, mas disseram-lhe que esperariam que fizesse os 18 para entrar na empresa, e foi assim que começou no jornalismo, ao mesmo tempo que estudava Comunicação Social na Univ...2021-10-181h 45
Design Thinking RoundtableEngineer X Design with Rinat Sherzer, Of Course GlobalEngineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology.
Our guest for this episode is Rinat Sherzer, Founder of Of Course Global (https://www.ofcourseglobal.com/)
To watch her TED Talk: The Bloody Taboo With The Power To Change The World: https://www.ted.com/talks/rinat_sherzer_the_bloody_taboo_with_the_power_to_change_the_world
Or read about her project "What Would the Egg Do?": https://www.wwted.com/
Credits...2021-05-1813 min
Design Thinking RoundtableDesigning with Values with Clare BrassIn this episode, I talked with Clare Brass, a London-based designer and innovator for business, with a focus on sustainability and circular economy. Clare is the Director of Department 22, which offers consultancy and training in design, innovation and circular economy with a focus on food systems. Clare shared her views on the importance of values in design as well as how to design sustainability and with a circular mindset. She reflected on the new role of designers when they move away from designing "stuff".
Follow her on Twitter @clarebrass and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-brass-851771/?originalSubdomain=uk
Check...2021-04-2630 min
Design Thinking RoundtableEngineering X Design with Adekunle Oduye, MailchimpEngineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology.
Our guest for this episode is Adekunle Oduye, Senior Engineer at Mailchimp.
Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou2021-04-1511 min
Design Thinking RoundtableEngineering X Design with Hannah Chung, designer & entrepreneurEngineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology.
Our guest for this episode is Hannah Chung, Co-founder of Sproutel and Design for America (DFA).
Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou2021-03-2709 min
Saúde Baseada em Evidências com Dr. José Neto: Ciência para quem cuida de genteOlhar crítico: Ivermectina para Covid-19 - Programa 717 da SBEOlhar crítico: Ivermectina para Covid-19 - Programa 717 da SBE - Episódio 81Será mesmo que a Ivermectina funciona para Covid-19? Como pode tantos estudos e profissionais dizendo que sim e outros dizendo que não? Assim como aconteceu ao longo de 2020, a cada período específico surge uma “nova” intervenção dita “efetiva” no tratamento/prevenção da COVID-19. Num post que fiz essa semana, muitas pessoas levantaram, mais uma vez, a bandeira do tratamento precoce. E a bola da vez agora era a Ivermectina. Resolvi fazer um passeio (e os convi...2021-03-151h 21
Design Thinking RoundtableDesigning for the Unintended with Jess MajekodunmiIn this episode, we talked with Jess Majekodunmi, an accomplished design historian, an experienced facilitator and an occasional poet, currently the Director of the Human Insights Lab at The Dock, Accenture’s Flagship R&D and Innovation Center, based in Dublin, Ireland. Jess shared with us her views on conscientious innovation, in particular when designing AI systems. She stressed the importance of designing for unintended consequences, and how history allows us to understand the present and imagine the future in order to to create meaningful and sustainable solutions
Follow her on Twitter @MajekJess and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/je...2021-03-1034 min
Design Thinking RoundtableSystems Thinking with Mayo NissenIn this episode, Mayo Nissen, a a New York-based creative director, currently Design Lab Director at the New York City Mayor's Office of the Chief Technology Officer, talked about his work at the intersections and interplay between research, systems thinking, and human-centered design. He shares with us his approach to human-centered design and how a systems thinking lens allows us to zoom in and out to create meaningful and sustainable solutions.
To learn more about Mayo's work: http://www.mayonissen.com Follow him on Twitter @mayonissen
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Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook2020-12-1832 min
Design Thinking RoundtableEngineering X Design with Jeremy Joachim, GenslerEngineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology.
Our guest for this episode is Jeremy Joachim, Creative Technologist on Gensler’s Digital Experience Design team.
Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou2020-12-0213 min
Design Thinking RoundtableEngineering X Design with Umi Syam, The New York TimesEngineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology.
Our guest for this episode is Umi Syam, Multimedia Editor at The New York Times. You can see her work on http://umi.codes/
Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou2020-11-1009 min
Design Thinking RoundtableStorytelling with Lee-Sean HuangIn this episode, Lee-Sean Huang, a designer and storyteller, cofounder of Foossa, a community-centered design consultancy, tells us about storytelling and its role in the design process, and shares with us his perspective on the intersection between design and democracy.
To learn more about Lee-Sean's work, check his website: https://leesean.net/ , Foossa's website: https://foossa.com/ and follow her on Twitter.com/leesean
Make sure to listen to Design Futures Now, the podcast he runs for AIGA, the professional association for design: https://anchor.fm/designfuturenow
To learn more about two projects mentioned on the podcast:
A talk about...2020-10-1726 min
Design Thinking RoundtableEngineering X Design with Wayne Suiter Matamoros, Unreasonable GroupEngineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology.
Our guest for this episode is Wayne Suiter Matamoros, Managing Director of Product and Experience at Unreasonable Group.
Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou2020-10-1312 min
Design Thinking RoundtableDesign Research with Sarah FathallahIn this episode, Sarah Fathallah, a Moroccan social designer and researcher, talks about her work at the intersection of human-centered design, community-centered design and participatory design. She shares with us her approach to design research and illustrates it with stories that show the value of design research in creating meaningful solutions.
To learn more about Sarah's work, check her website: https://sarahfathallah.com, read her writing on Medium: https://medium.com/@sfath and follow her on Twitter.com/SFath
Credits:
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook2020-10-0527 min
Design Thinking RoundtableProtecting Children: How human-centered design made ACS more user-friendlyIn this episode, Tim Reitzes from NYC Civic Service Design Studio at Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity and Daniel Herrera from the Administration of Children’s Services tell our host, Priyanka Vora, how their offices collaborated to use the principles of human-centered design to make ACS’ services more user-friendly.
Here’s who we interviewed in the order they appear on the show:
Tim Reitzes, Design Lead, NYC Civic Service Design Studio at Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity
Daniel Herrera, Advisor, Division of Prevention Services at the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) in New York City.
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Credits:
Production, host: Priyanka Vora;
Co...2020-06-2019 min
Design Thinking RoundtableVeteran Suicide Prevention: How CDC and the Lab at OPM collaborated to give veterans a voiceIn the second episode, our host, Priyanka Vora sat down with experts at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Lab at OPM (The United States Office of Personnel Management) who applied human-centered design to better understand Veterans’ perspectives on how to prevent suicide as they transition out of military service.
Here’s who we interviewed in the order they appear on the show:
Commander Shannon (‘Kinzie) Lee, Lead for Strategic Partnerships at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control’s Office of Policy and Partnerships.
Leah Chan, Public Health Advisor on the Strategic Partnerships Team in the Office of Polic...2020-05-2126 min
Design Thinking RoundtableEngineering X Design with Alonso Castro, VerizonEngineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology.
Our guest for this episode is Alonso Castro, Senior Experience Designer at Verizon.
Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou2020-05-1912 min
Design Thinking RoundtableEngineering X Design with Jocelyn Miller, JM Coaching and TrainingEngineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology.
Our guest for this episode is Jocelyn Miller, Founder and CEO of JM Coaching and Training.
Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou
Thank you to our sponsor, the Department of Technology Management and Innovation, NYU Tandon.
To learn more about the Design Lab @ NYU MakerSpace visit makerspace.engineering.nyu.edu/designlab/
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Design Thinking RoundtableEngineering X Design with Jeff Kessler, IDEOEngineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology.
Our guest for this episode is Jeff Kessler, Senior Design Lead at IDEO.
Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; Logo design: Florentina Sergiou
Thank you to our sponsor, the Department of Technology Management and Innovation, NYU Tandon.
To learn more about the Design Lab @ NYU MakerSpace visit http://makerspace.engineering.nyu.edu/designlab/
and follow...2020-04-1511 min
Design Thinking RoundtableHuman-centered design in the Public SectorDesign Thinking Roundtable returns with its third season —Designing for the Public to investigate the meaning of Human-Centered Design in the public sector. Public sector fundamentally pertains to and involves people: Without people, the “public” does not exist, nor does the government. We discuss, debate and question the past, present and future of design thinking in the public sector.
In the first episode, our host, Priyanka Vora sat down with design experts working with and in the government to discuss why human-centered design matters for developing and implementing policies that create positive social impact.
Here’s who we interviewed in the orde...2020-02-2816 min
Design Thinking RoundtableDisability-Led Design: Inclusive Design FuturesFor the season finale of the Designing for All Humans series, we sat down with disability advocates to learn why inclusive design has the potential to grow beyond its current conception and practice— towards disability-led design. We explore the following questions: Is inclusive design even a fitting label for this movement? How might disability-led design push the movement forward towards genuine inclusion?
The guest speakers featured in this episode are: Liz Jackson [Founder, The Disabled List & Curator, Critical Axis], Shaina Garfield [Design Researcher, Hologic], and Morten Bonde [Senior Art Director, LEGO].
Visit https://www.thegirlwiththepurplecane.com/, https://mortenbonde.dk/en/, an...2019-08-2919 min
Design Thinking RoundtableEmpowerment through Play: Inclusive Design in PracticeIn the second part of the Designing for All Humans series, we feature two fascinating projects that empower children with disabilities through play: Project Fizzyo and Braille Bricks. The two projects provide insights in how to practice inclusive design. The experts involved in these initiatives highlight the importance of engaging all the stakeholders during the whole design journey: from inspiration to ideation and prototyping.
Learn more about Project Fizzyo here: https://fizzyo.github.io/, Tack Tiles here: http://www.tack-tiles.com/, and LEGO Braille Bricks here: https://www.legobraillebricks.com/.
The guest speakers featured in this episode are: Haiyan Zhang...2019-08-2915 min
Design Thinking RoundtableEquality vs. Equity: Introduction to Inclusive DesignThis first episode of the Designing for All Humans series introduces key concepts and vocabulary in inclusive design through conversation with educators at the Ability Project. What is ability? How might designers participate in the destigmatization of disability? What is the difference between inclusive design and accessibility and related concepts?
The Ability Project is an interdisciplinary research lab at NYU dedicated to the intersection between disability and human-centered design. Learn more about the Ability Project by visiting http://ability.nyu.edu.
The guest speakers featured in this episode are: Allan Goldstein [Senior Lecturer of Disability Studies, NYU Tandon], Marianne Petit...2019-05-1016 min
Design Thinking RoundtableSameera Chukkapalli, NeedLab, on the importance of cocreation in sustainable innovationHuman-centered design plays an important role in the intersection of architecture, sustainability and social impact. In this episode, Sameera Chukkapalli [CEO & Founder, Needlab], talks to us about the process of designing with communities in need and the ideology of "think global, act local".
Needlab is a non-profit design research organization with a focus on the built environment. Through projects around the world, Needlab is working to unveil new ways of creating a dialogue between local materials, social customs, cultural heritage, and the environment. Learn more at www.needlab.org.
Credits---conception and production: Harshita Nedunuri; co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design: Tunan...2019-02-0925 min
Design Thinking RoundtableSean Rhodes, Frog Design, on the evolving role of designers and human behavior as a mediumDo designers have a seat at the table when it comes to solving the wicked problems of the world? If the medium is the message, what does it mean to shift the medium of design towards human behavior?
In this episode, Sean Rhodes [Executive Creative Director, Frog], sheds light on these pressing questions + offers advice on how to design responsibly and with purpose.
Credits---conception and production: Harshita Nedunuri; co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design: Tunan Guo; post-production: Jessica Chase.2019-02-0822 min
Design Thinking RoundtableAlex Kozovski, McKinsey & Co, on how designers and management consultants can complement each otherIn recent years, management consultancies have started acquiring design firms and several have been integrating design teams within their consulting practice. McKinsey & Company engages in this phenomenon—their acquisition strategy and the launch of McKinsey Design indicates a major shift in the industry.
Alex Kozovski [Senior Designer, McKinsey New Ventures], NYU ITP alumnus, tells us how despite the different epistemic stances management consultants and designers hold when it comes to innovation, their skills are in fact very complementary. In this first episode, Alex covers multiple topics from the importance of embracing ambiguity (what he calls “the discomfort of not knowing") to b...2018-12-0318 min