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Art School Graduate PodcastFoossa’s Lee‑Sean Huang & David Colby Reed: Design for Participation, Story & Systems🎧 New to the channel? Subscribe and turn on notifications:👉 @artschoolgraduate_podcast🎙️ What happens when storytelling meets systems thinking, and design is centered around participation, not just aesthetics? In this episode, we sit down with Lee-Sean Huang and David Colby Reed, co-founders of the strategy and design consultancy Foossa, to unpack how design can truly shape communities, spark dialogue, and drive social change.We explore their creative origin story, their guiding philosophy of “Design for Participation,” and how they use narrative strategy, co-design, and service design to tackle some of the world’s biggest challen...
2025-10-261h 30
Did I Do That?The Surreal World (with Lee-Sean Huang) [rerun]THREE big pieces of news!#1: Season 5 is coming on Thursday, September 5! Now is a great time to get subscribed and ready—we've got a killer roster already lined up and you won't want to miss it!#2: If you weren't able to get out to our Seattle live show as part of Seattle Design Festival, not to worry! SDF has published a video of the whole show to their YouTube channel that you can watch, either on its own or paired with the other SDF Day 1 Mainstage presentations. It was so wonderful to get to connect with...
2024-08-2255 min
Pixel Retentive PodcastBridging the Gap Between Designers as Craftspeople with Lee-Sean HuangLee-Sean Huang is a designer, artist, and educator. In 2013, he co-founded Foossa, a service design and strategy practice. Since then, he has worked with communities and organizations worldwide to tackle social innovation challenges. Currently, he is the Senior Director of Learning and Programs at AIGA, the oldest and largest professional design association in the U.S. His artistic endeavors span performance, audio/video, and digital media, with a current focus on street photography and environmental portraiture, inspired by his ethnographic research and documentation work. What You'll Learn: Conversational style Bridging gap Power skills Teaching a...
2024-05-2746 min
Yellow GlitterCollective Change and Community-Centered Design with Lee-Sean HuangThis episode, we're joined by an extra special guest, Lee-Sean Huang (he/they), a queer first-generation Taiwanese, Cantonese American designer and educator based in New York City and Providence. Lee-Sean Huang is the director of Design Content and learning at AIGA and a co-founder, creative director of Foossa, and teaches design and innovation at Parsons and SVA. This episode, we talk about: Lee-Sean's "midlife crisis" and how he is navigating a new chapter in his life Navigating corporate world and academia with queer & Asian identities His work with the New School and advocating for teachers The...
2023-08-141h 01
Brooklyn, USA63 | Get Up, Get Down, Brooklyn Is A Union TownThe COVID-19 pandemic demanded more of workers: longer hours, angrier customers, and increased exposure to disease. Now, workers across the country — from baristas to warehouse workers to nurses — are organizing to demand safer, fairer workplaces. Workers in New York City are leading this wave of action, unionizing more workers than anywhere else in the country. Producer Melanie Kruvelis spoke to striking workers, elected officials, and community members to understand what's at stake for New York City's workers — and how organizing in the five boroughs impacts working people across the country. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie...
2022-11-2320 min
Did I Do That?The Surreal World (with Lee-Sean Huang)Those tossed salads and scrambled eggs must be calling again, because Did I Do That? is in Seattle for the AIGA Design Conference! Lee-Sean Huang (Creative Director of Foossa and Director of Design Content & Learning at AIGA) joins Sean to talk dialup conspiracies, leveraging the combined might of the Center for Academic Precocity and the Cronkite School of Journalism to make a reality show, and what business people think about.You can find more about Lee-Sean at his website, leesean.net, or follow him nearly anywhere social by searching for the handle @leesean. You can find the Lee...
2022-11-1752 min
Unpopular Passion19. Lee-Sean HuangLee-Sean is a multifaceted person with a passion for helping people find their own creative magic within themselves. He very much leads by example. From a podcast to a cooking show, to music, design and teaching. Lee-Sean has not fallen short of discovering his own creative magic.
Hear us talk about his many projects and interests as well as the deeper meaning identifying with his heritage has had in his life.
See more from Lee-Sean:
Website: https://foossa.com/leesean-huang
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LeeSeanHuang88/videos
2021-05-3054 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 47 - Lee-Sean HuangGet in touch!Lee-Sean Huang is a designer and an educator. He co-founded Foossa, a creative consultancy focused on community-centered design, social innovation, and futurecasting. He teaches courses at New York University, the Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts. He also hosts the Design Future Now podcast, produced by AIGA, the professional association of design.https://foossa.com/leesean-huanghttps://leesean.netSupport the showSince its inception in 2019, Design Education Talks podcast has served as a dynamic platform for the exchange of insights and ideas...
2021-04-2115 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
FoossaPodFoossaPod Hiatus + Launch of AIGA's Design Future NowFoossaPod is going on a hiatus while Lee-Sean works on a new podcast with AIGA called Design Future Now, which explores the changing context of the design discipline and profession. Tune in to the latest episode of Design Future Now featuring Jack Roberts, author, designer, educator, filmmaker, and member of the Cherokee Nation.
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2020-01-0941 minFoossaPodPaolo Bitanga (B-Boy Pawi) on PlayWe are back with FoossaPod, a podcast about creativity, community, and the things that matter.
In this episode, Lee-Sean Huang and David Colby Reed have a conversation with filmmaker, children’s book author, breakdancer and all around polymath Paolo Bitanga, also known as B-Boy Pawi. We talked about the power of play, pursuing creative careers across disciplines, and more.
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2019-10-0455 minFoossaPodJeremy Heimans on New PowerDavid Colby Reed and Lee-Sean Huang interview Jeremy Heimans, CEO of Purpose and co-author of the book New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World–and How to Make It Work for You.
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2018-07-1633 minFoossaPodAndrew Benedict-Nelson on Norms and InnovationFoossa's Lee-Sean Huang interviews Andrew Benedict-Nelson, author of See Think Solve: A Simple Way to Tackle Tough Problems.
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2018-06-2938 minFoossaPodJosie Lehrer on the Men's Story ProjectHow can storytelling help foster healthy masculinity in a time of #MeToo and Time’s Up? How can social learning help us examine and challenge gender norms to promote health, peace, and justice?
In this episode of FoossaPod, Lee-Sean Huang interviews Dr. Josie Lehrer of the Men’s Stories Project, a movement building project for healthy masculinity. The project uses the power of storytelling and social learning to promote community, health, and peace-building.
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2018-04-1838 minFoossaPodDesign Thinking Is BS, And We Should Promote It AnywayThis is the audio version of an article on Design Thinking that Lee-Sean Huang wrote in response to Pentagram partner Natasha Jen's provocative talk at the 99U Conference, "Design Thinking Is BS"
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2018-04-1513 minFoossaPodNYC Council Member Keith Powers on Criminal Justice, Housing, and Civic EngagementFoossa’s David Colby Reed talks with New York City Council Member Keith Powers about civic engagement, housing, and criminal justice reform, including the planned closing of the Rikers Island jail complex.
Council Member Keith Powers represents New York City’s 4th District, which includes the Manhattan neighborhoods of the Upper East Side, Central Park South, Grand Central Terminal, Tudor City, Waterside, Peter Cooper Village, Carnegie Hill, Stuyvesant Town, the United Nations as well as part of Yorkville and Turtle Bay.
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2018-04-1137 minFoossaPodNYC Council Member Carlina Rivera on Civic EngagementHow can local politicians design ways to better engage their constituents? Can processes like participatory budgeting or streamlined digital technologies help increase civic engagement?
In this episode of FoossaPod, David Colby Reed and Lee-Sean Huang have a conversation with New York City Council Member Carlina Rivera to discuss these topics and more.
Council Member Rivera represents New York City District 2, which includes the diverse Manhattan neighborhoods of the Lower East Side, East Village, Gramercy, Rose Hill, Kips Bay, Flatiron, Union Square, and Murray Hill.
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2018-04-0229 minFoossaPodNdidi Amutah on Health Disparities and EquityDavid Colby Reed & Lee-Sean Huang interview Ndidi Amutah about health disparities and equity and multidisciplinary approaches to deal with these issues.
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2018-01-1843 minFoossaPodJeff Leitner on Innovation DynamicsWhat can modern art museums teach us about commemorating the Holocaust? And why is legislation not enough to stop human trafficking? What are some of the recurring patterns that help us innovate by shifting behaviors, crafting culture, and making systems change?
In this episode of FoossaPod, David Colby Reed and Lee-Sean Huang talk with Jeff Leitner to explore these questions and to discuss the importance of looking at norms as a starting point for social innovation. Jeff has worked on social innovation projects in a range of sectors ranging from diplomacy, to healthcare, to education.
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2017-12-0727 minFoossaPodFoossaPod: Klaatch on Design for Meaningful Connections and Healthy SeniorsLoneliness kills.
Fortune Magazine analyzed findings from 70 scientific studies. They found that loneliness, isolation, and living alone all had a significant effect on a person's risk for early death.
Loneliness affects people of all ages, but older people are particularly vulnerable.
In this episode of Foossapod, we hear from Meli Glenn and Adam Green from Klaatch.
Klaatch is a service that is ending loneliness among seniors.
Klaatch removes the barriers to making meaningful connections, in-person, that create lasting change and improve healthy aging.
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2017-11-1326 minFoossaPodUzma Alam on Community Engagement in International Humanitarian HealthHow can community engagement help humanitarian health workers save more lives? What can the humanitarian health community learn from global brands like Coca Cola and McDonalds? In this episode of FoossaPod, we hear from Dr. Uzma Alam, an expert in international humanitarian health.
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2017-08-2225 minFoossaPodRegina Davis Moss on Wonder Woman's Black Twin Sister and Inclusion in Media and HealthWhat does Wonder Woman's long lost Black twin sister have to do with
inclusion in the media and in public health?
Find out from our special guest Regina Davis Moss, an expert in minority
women and girl’s health and an Allies Reaching for Community Health Equity
(ARCHE) Public Voices fellow at the The OpEd Project.
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2017-07-2913 minFoossaPodDiane Hwang on Designing for Health and the DoTankLee-Sean talks to Diane Hwang about her experience designing ways to help healthcare patients stay on track with their prescriptions. We also talk about designing for community in an open and iterative way at the MiLES DoTank.
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