Who does design belong to, and who is it for? How does it serve us—all of us—and how can we learn to better understand its future, and our own?On Design As— a new podcast from Design Observer—we’ll dig into all of this and more, in conversation with design leaders, scholars, practitioners, and a range of industry experts whose seasoned perspectives will help illuminate the questions as well as the answers. In this first season, we’ll consider the topics of Culture, Complexity, and Citizenship in terms of their impact on the design practice and also in terms of how they themselves are being shaped by design today.
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In this finale episode of Design As, host Lee Moreau reflects on the season, and also includes an exclusive interview with famed designer Don Norman, recorded at the Design Research Society 2024 Conference hosted in Boston in June 2024.A full transcript of the show, plus more bonus content, can be found hereLooking to be the site of the next season of Design As? Get in touch here!
Design As Pluriverse features Lee Moreau in conversation with Renata Marques Leitão, Frederick van Amstel, and Lesley-Ann Noel. Follow Design Observer on Instagram to keep up and see even more Design As content. A full transcript of the show can be found hereHear more from Lesley-Ann Noel and Frederick van Amstel on Season 1 of Design As Season two of Design As draws from recordings taken at the Design Research Society 2024 Conference hosted in Boston in June 2024.
Design As Humanity features Lee Moreau in conversation with Susan Fabry, Laura Forlano, Mahsa Ershadi, and Sheng-Hung Lee. Follow Design Observer on Instagram to keep up and see even more Design As content. A full transcript of the show can be found hereCheck out the Design Observer hosted job board.Season two of Design As draws from recordings taken at the Design Research Society 2024 Conference hosted in Boston in June 2024.
Design is well positioned as a driving force in many business organizations, large corporations especially, codified in roles like Chief Design Officer or Head of Design. Design is directly involved in, and often leading, the process of shaping the vision and the strategy of a company. Still, design is often intended more as a practice—at different levels, from new product development to design thinking—and less as a systematic, both fundamental and applied, research approach, thus limiting its potential for long term, radical innovation.In this bonus episode of Design As you'll hear Lee Moreau in conversation with Jadlia (Jada) Britto, Mahsa Ershadi, and Susan Fabry discussing: What is a working definition, and a potential role, for design research, or research through design, in the business context? How can universities, research centers, companies and other organizations partner to shape meaningful, viable, sustainable, and socially relevant innovation?This audio was recorded live at the Design Research Society 2024 Conference hosted in Boston in June 2024.Follow Design Observer on Instagram to keep up and see even more Design As content. A full transcript of the show can be found here
Design As Discipline features Lee Moreau in conversation with Mariana Amatullo, Elizabeth Christoforetti, and Maria Risueño. Follow Design Observer on Instagram to keep up and see even more Design As content. A full transcript of the show can be found hereCheck out another show from Design Observer, The Design of Business | The Business of Design, soon launching its 12th season! Season two of Design As draws from recordings taken at the Design Research Society 2024 Conference hosted in Boston in June 2024.
Design As Visualization features Lee Moreau in conversation with Dietmar Offenhuber, and Paolo Ciuccarelli. Follow Design Observer on Instagram to keep up and see even more Design As content. A full transcript of the show can be found hereDesign Observer is always accepting pitches!Season two of Design As draws from recordings taken at the Design Research Society 2024 Conference hosted in Boston in June 2024.
In this bonus episode of Design As you'll hear information designer and Pentagram partner Giorgia Lupi who will share her unique and, at times, deeply personal data visualization work, focusing on her ongoing recovery from Long Covid. Three and a half years and two subsequent infections later, Lupi's recovery was the catalyst for an influential data visualization project recently published as a Visual OpEd in the New York Times. Following Lupi's presentation, she will discuss her work in conversation with Lee Moreau, Professor of the Practice of Art + Design at Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design. This audio was recorded live at the Design Research Society 2024 Conference hosted in Boston in June 2024.A full transcript of the show, plus more bonus content, can be found here
Design As Care features Lee Moreau in conversation with Jadalia Britto, Rachael Dietkus, Sofie Hodara, and Giorgia Lupi.Follow Design Observer on Instagram to keep up and see even more Design As content. Subscribe to Design Observer's newsletters The Observatory and Equity Observer here. Click here for a full transcript of the show plus even more content on Design Observer's website. Season two of Design As draws from recordings taken at the Design Research Society 2024 Conference hosted in Boston in June 2024.
Design As Governance features host Lee Moreau in conversation with guests Shin-pei Tsay, Geoff Mulgan, and Chelsea Mauldin. Follow Design Observer on Instagram to keep up and see even more Design As content. A full transcript of the show can be found hereSeason two of Design As draws from recordings taken at the Design Research Society 2024 Conference hosted in Boston in June 2024.
Design As is back! Starting January 7th Design As will release episodes weekly. Joining host Lee Moreau to speculate on the future of design through a range of different perspectives. This season you'll hear discussions on six new key words — Governance, Care, Visualization, Discipline, Humanity, & Pluriverse — plus two exclusive bonus episodes directly recorded at the Design Research Society conference this past summer! Follow Design Observer on Instagram to keep up and see even more Design As content. A full transcript of the audio, plus an essay from Lee about this season, can be found here.
On this final episode of the season, Shari Davis, Oliver Escobar, Lily Tsai, and Lee Moreau finish their discussion on citizenship and design. To read the transcript, visit DesignObserver.com. Subscribe to "Design As" on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player. Follow Design Observer on social media @designobserver. "Design As" is brought to you by Mastercard Customer Experience and Design, a design community working to accelerate the future of commerce through experience and innovation. Find out more at careers.mastercard.com.
On this episode, Shari Davis, Oliver Escobar, Lily Tsai, and Lee Moreau begin a discussion on our final topic of the season: citizenship and design.
On this episode, Jamer Hunt, Manuel Lima, Ellen McGirt, and Lee Moreau finish their discussion on complexity and design.
On this episode, Jamer Hunt, Manuel Lima, Ellen McGirt, and Lee Moreau discuss complexity.
On this episode of "Design As" Alicia Cheng, Lee Moreau, Lesley-Ann Noel, and Frederick van Amstel conclude their discussion of culture and design. To read the transcript, visit DesignObserver.com. Subscribe to "Design As" on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player. Follow Design Observer on social media @designobserver. "Design As" is brought to you by Mastercard Customer Experience and Design, a design community working to accelerate the future of commerce through experience and innovation. Find out more at careers.mastercard.com.
On this episode of "Design As" Alicia Cheng, Lee Moreau, Lesley-Ann Noel, and Frederick van Amstel begin their discussion of the sometimes joyful, sometimes difficult relationship between culture and design. To read the transcript, visit DesignObserver.com. Subscribe to "Design As" on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player. Follow Design Observer on social media @designobserver. "Design As" is brought to you by Mastercard Customer Experience and Design, a design community working to accelerate the future of commerce through experience and innovation. Find out more at careers.mastercard.com.
For three days in March, we gathered with some sixty people—designers and scholars, social entrepreneurs and independent consultants, creative leaders and senior practitioners from across a range of industries—to discuss the current state of everything from collaboration and craft to cultural transformation, technological innovation, and the social and systemic changes impacting the ways we live and work. We realized these conversations were necessary, where real talk and a sense of camaraderie allowed us as a group to push past the obvious and to share what truly makes the hard work worth it. On this new show, Design As, we'll bring together a new group of people for each conversation framed again around the same words: culture, complexity, and citizenship. We hope you will subscribe on Apple podcasts or Spotify or wherever you're listening to us.Special thanks to Mastercard for supporting this season.
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