Podcasts about collaborative design

On today's episode, we're turning our focus to a pivotal innovation that has transformed design and manufacturing processes: flexible circuits.Flexible circuits have emerged as a game-changer in the manufacturing and design of electronic assemblies. With their unique ability to bend, twist, and conform to complex shapes, they offer unparalleled advantages in applications where space is at a premium and reliability is paramount. From wearable technology and medical devices to aerospace systems and consumer electronics, the use of flexible circuits has expanded rapidly, bringing with it both opportunities and challenges.In this episode, we'll explore the evolution of flexible circuit technology, discussing its key benefits, such as lightweight construction, enhanced durability, and improved design freedom. We'll also touch on the manufacturing complexities, material considerations, and the critical role that process control plays in ensuring reliability and performance.My guest today is Joseph Fjelstad. Joe is the founder of Verdant Electronics. Joseph Fjelstad has been active in electronics manufacturing since 1972 in various roles, including as a chemist, process engineer, and R&D manager. He holds nearly 190 U.S. Patents and numerous foreign ones. He is an internationally recognized expert, inventor and lecturer in the field of electronics interconnection technology and a veteran of several startup companies, including: Beta Phase, ELF Technologies, MetaRAM, Silicon Pipe, and Tessera (now the public company, Xperi).Some of Joe's innovative devices and novel reliability improving IC packaging structural features are found in nearly every electronic device made today. He is also an author, co-author or editor of several books on interconnection technology, including Flexible Circuit Technology 4th Edition, the most widely distributed reference book on the topic, Chip Scale Packaging for Modern Electronics, and Solderless Assembly For Electronics — The SAFE Approach. In addition, Fjelstad has written hundreds of articles, columns and commentaries for various industry magazines and journals over the last five decades. And today, he's the guest on my show.Here is a list of Joe's books:Flexible Circuit Technology 4th Editionhttps://iconnect007.com/my-i-connect007/books/flex-circuit-technologyChip Scale Packaging for Modern Electronicshttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/cw.2004.21730bae.001/full/htmlSolderless Assembly for Electronics: The SAFE Approachhttps://iconnect007.com/my-i-connect007/books/solderless-assembly-electronics-safe-approach#:~:text=SAFE%20technology%20(Solderless%20Assembly%20For,design%20efficacy%2C%20reliability%20and%20security.Joe's Company:Verdant Electronicshttps://verdantelectronics.net Chapters:00:00:00 Importance of Flexible Circuits in Modern Electronics  00:02:42 Exploring the World of Flexible Circuits  00:05:30 Introduction to Flexible Circuits: A Historical Perspective00:08:43 Entrepreneurship Mindset: Naivety and Innovation00:11:08 The Value of Naivety in Engineering  00:13:43 Innovations in Bubble Printing Technology  00:16:47 Understanding Flex Circuits: Applications and Challenges00:19:58 The Lifespan and Failure of Torsion Bars  00:22:21 Evolution of Soldier Technology: From Heads-Up Displays to Wearables00:25:24 The Origins of the Integrated Circuit00:28:13 Advances in Microelectronics: From Printed Transistors to Modern Tech00:31:28 Challenges and Solutions in Flexible Circuit Design00:34:00 Collaborative Design for Efficient Manufacturing  00:36:49 Advances in Flexible HDI and the Upcoming Ultra HDI Conference  00:39:46 Evolution of Flexible Circuits: From 1903 to Present   00:42:40 Innovating Flexible Circuits  00:45:13 Evolution of Toll Road Technology00:48:08 The Future of Flexible and Stretchable Circuits00:51:53 Introduction to Verdant Electronics  00:54:46 The Military's Stance on Lead-Free Technology  00:56:27 Innovating Solderless Technology00:59:18 Insights on Persistence and Success in Entrepreneurship

On today's episode, we're turning our focus to a pivotal innovation that has transformed design and manufacturing processes: flexible circuits. Flexible circuits have emerged as a game-changer in the manufacturing and design of electronic assemblies. With their unique ability to bend, twist, and conform to complex shapes, they offer unparalleled advantages in applications where space is at a premium and reliability is paramount.  From wearable technology and medical devices to aerospace systems and consumer electronics, the use of flexible circuits has expanded rapidly, bringing with it both opportunities and challenges. In this episode, we'll explore the evolution of flexible circuit technology, discussing its key benefits, such as lightweight construction, enhanced durability, and improved design freedom.  We'll also touch on the manufacturing complexities, material considerations, and the critical role that process control plays in ensuring reliability and performance. Mike Konrad's guest today is Joseph Fjelstad. Joe is the founder of Verdant Electronics. Joseph Fjelstad has been active in electronics manufacturing since 1972 in various roles, including as a chemist, process engineer, and R&D manager. He holds nearly 190 US patents and numerous foreign ones.  He is an internationally recognized expert, inventor and lecturer in the field of electronics interconnection technology and a veteran of several startup companies, including: Beta Phase, ELF Technologies, MetaRAM, Silicon Pipe, and Tessera (now the public company, Xperi). Some of Joe's innovative devices and novel reliability improving IC packaging structural features are found in nearly every electronic device made today.  He is also an author, co-author or editor of several books on interconnection technology, including Flexible Circuit Technology 4th Edition, the most widely distributed reference book on the topic, Chip Scale Packaging for Modern Electronics, and Solderless Assembly For Electronics — The SAFE Approach.  In addition, Fjelstad has written hundreds of articles, columns and commentaries for various industry magazines and journals over the last five decades. And today, he's the guest on my show. 00:00:00 Importance of Flexible Circuits in Modern Electronics   00:02:42 Exploring the World of Flexible Circuits   00:05:30 Introduction to Flexible Circuits: A Historical Perspective 00:08:43 Entrepreneurship Mindset: Naivety and Innovation 00:11:08 The Value of Naivety in Engineering   00:13:43 Innovations in Bubble Printing Technology   00:16:47 Understanding Flex Circuits: Applications and Challenges 00:19:58 The Lifespan and Failure of Torsion Bars   00:22:21 Evolution of Soldier Technology: From Heads-Up Displays to Wearables 00:25:24 The Origins of the Integrated Circuit 00:28:13 Advances in Microelectronics: From Printed Transistors to Modern Tech 00:31:28 Challenges and Solutions in Flexible Circuit Design 00:34:00 Collaborative Design for Efficient Manufacturing   00:36:49 Advances in Flexible HDI and the Upcoming Ultra HDI Conference   00:39:46 Evolution of Flexible Circuits: From 1903 to Present    00:42:40 Innovating Flexible Circuits   00:45:13 Evolution of Toll Road Technology 00:48:08 The Future of Flexible and Stretchable Circuits 00:51:53 Introduction to Verdant Electronics   00:54:46 The Military's Stance on Lead-Free Technology   00:56:27 Innovating Solderless Technology 00:59:18 Insights on Persistence and Success in Entrepreneurship

 I'm at CET Experience this week, meeting with designers and hugging friends, new and old - this is one happy place!  This morning, Configure hit the stage with some exciting updates, and though you might've missed it, don't worry—we've got you covered!  In this episode, I sit down with two very special guests: Aaron Okkema (Global Head of Interiors at Configura) and Erin Corrill (Global Head of User Community at Configura). Together, we discuss what's happening at this year's show,  what's new at Configura, and what might be on the horizon for the commercial interiors industry. Sign up for The Design POP's Monthly webinar as we continue to learn existing design technologies and explore new ones too! https://www.thedesignpop.com/webinarThe Design Pop is an Imagine a Place Production (presented by OFS)Learn more about ROOM Connect with Alexandra on LinkedInFollow The Design Pop on LinkedInConnect with Alexandra Tseffos and The Design Pop

This week, we welcome designers Ellie Cullman and Lee Cavanaugh from the eponymous design firm Cullman & Kravis, who discuss their latest book, 'Cullman and Kravis Interiors.' Although "Cullman & Kravis Interiors" is technically the fourth book from designer Ellie Cullman, it is the first book that showcases her own firm's approach to blending traditional and contemporary styles. Ellie and Lee emphasize their passion for reflecting client interests, location, and functionality in their designs, and they also share insights about the importance of cohesive coloring and the ‘alchemy of old and new' in creating vibrant living spaces. Watch this week's conversation as recorded on Ballard Designs YouTube. What You'll Hear On This Episode:  00:00 Introduction 00:33 Meet Our Guests: Ellie Cullman and Lee Cavanaugh 01:58 The Unique Cullman and Kravis Aesthetic 03:58 Designing for Function and Comfort 05:15 Interactive Design Process 13:43 Collaborative Design and Client Interaction 20:48 Adapting Designs for Future Needs 23:14 Creating Play Spaces for All Ages 23:58 Exploring Traditional Design 25:31 Balancing Old and New in Interiors 31:48 The Importance of Color Cohesion 35:35 Personal Stories and Design Tips 39:16 Decorating Dilemmas and Solutions 45:21 Conclusion + Where to Find More from Cullman & Kravis Decorating Dilemma: Cullman & Kravis suggest embracing the bold fuchsia color from her chairs by incorporating it elsewhere in the room to achieve cohesion. They recommended painting the walls in the fuchsia shade or using a textured wall covering to tie the space together. If the bold choice felt overwhelming, they suggested adding fuchsia accessories, such as vases or a large bowl, on the dining table. To address the issue with her dining chairs on the carpet, they recommended using plastic sliders or sabots on the chair feet for ease of movement. Overall, they encouraged Donna to continue her bold direction and reminded her that sometimes stepping out of her comfort zone can result in a well-designed room. Also Mentioned: Ballard Designs Watch the Full Episode w/ Images: Ballard Designs YouTube Cullman & Kravis

Co-authors of Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future, the authors, Scott Doorley, creative director, and Carissa Carter, academic director at Stanford University's d.school.Welcome you to Change Ready, an original series brought to you by Behind the Human & Malosi. A series where we do everything possible to future-proof your mind and thrive in an era of unprecedented change. ___How Prepared is Your Team for the Next Big Disruption? Future-proof your team with Malosiminds.com Get your copy of Personal Socrates: Better Questions, Better Life Connect with Marc >>> Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter Drop a review and let me know what resonates with you about the show!Thanks as always for listening and have the best day yet!*A special thanks to MONOS, our official travel partner for Behind the Human! Use MONOSBTH10 at check-out for savings on your next purchase. ✈️*Special props

As a designer, Scott Doorley is interested in how humans create the world around them. It's a conversation, he says, that starts with the question: What kind of world do we want?Doorley is the creative director of the Stanford d.school and co-author of the book, Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future. In designing everything from a device to an app to a building, “People get excited about what it can do,” he says, “but what should it do? What do we want? What's the desirable outcome that we want in the world?”In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Doorley and host Matt Abrahams discuss how applying design thinking to communication can help us connect more with each other, better understand the world, and create meaningful change.Episode Reference Links:Stanford d.school Profile: Scott Doorley Stanford d.school Scott's Book: Assembling TomorrowEp.61 Courage, Belonging, Ambiguity and Data: How to Design Your Communication for Success Website / YouTube Ep.70 Keep 'Em Coming: Why Your First Ideas Aren't Always the Best Website / YouTube Connect:Email Questions & Feedback >>> thinkfast@stanford.eduEpisode Transcripts >>> Think Fast Talk Smart WebsiteNewsletter Signup + English Language Learning >>> FasterSmarter.ioThink Fast Talk Smart >>> LinkedIn Page, Instagram, YouTubeMatt Abrahams >>> LinkedInStanford GSB >>> LinkedIn & TwitterChapters:(00:00:00) IntroductionHost Matt Abrahams introduces guest Scott Doorley, creative director of Stanford's d.school.(00:01:07) What is Design?The broad scope of design at Stanford's d.school and the role of intention in bringing ideas to life.(00:02:16) The Design ProcessThe design process, emphasizing desirability and externalizing ideas to understand them better.(00:03:32) Communication in DesignThe vital role of communication in all aspects of design.(00:05:09) Mistakes in Spatial DesignThe biggest mistake people make when arranging spaces for communication and interaction.(00:06:47) Runaway DesignThe concept of runaway design and its implications in the modern world.(00:09:29) Intangibles and ActionablesThe distinction between actionables and intangibles, and how these concepts can be applied beyond design.(00:12:47) Using Stories in DesignHow storytelling helps envision and communicate future impacts of design.(00:16:20) Emotion in InnovationThe role of emotions in driving innovation, communication, and design.(00:19:03) The Final Three QuestionsScott shares what he is currently designing, a communicator he admires, and his ingredients for successful communication.(00:23:17) ConclusionSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

About a decade ago, entrepreneur Graham Bredemeyer started Collider, a company that combined the best of 3D printing with injection molding. Now he runs CADChat, which hopes to make sharing and discussing CAD files more social. The young entrepreneur also talks about his time at Zverse, Shapeways, Adaxis, and Essentium. This episode of the 3DPOD provides a look into entrepreneurship and a new generation that is more "3D printing native" than the engineers from before.

What do you get when you survey 70 designers and challenge 10 of the leading minds in design? You get "Game Time," an entertaining and insightful exploration of design concepts and trends.Join host Doug Shapiro in the latest creation from Imagine a Place Productions – a unique game show that merges engaging discussions with exciting gameplay! In this innovative format, two teams, composed of some of the industry's leading minds, go head-to-head in a lively debate and competition. Watch as our participants use their knowledge and wit to compete, all while diving deep into the issues that shape our spaces and lives.Don't miss this blend of competition, discussion, and discovery. Tune in to see who comes out on top in the ultimate design showdown! Watch now! Featuring: Ronnie Belizaire, HKS Erika Moody, Helix Architecture + Design Mark Bryan, Future Today Institute Cheryl Durst, International Interior Design Association Bill Bouchey, Gensler Stacey Crumbaker, Mahlum Architects Inc. Mike Johnson II, Hickok Cole Joe Pettipas, ARCADIS Ana Pinto-Alexander, HKS Abby Scott, HDR Follow Doug on LinkedIn.Click here to get your copy of Doug's children's book—Design Your World.Follow Imagine a Place on LinkedIn.

Here we go with guest Marcus Rosenau and host, Doug Longenecker as they explore how the term "architectural integrity" goes beyond the actual structure to include the consistency of the design idea itself and how that should hold up over time too. To reach that level of integrity, the team at SSP Architects help their clients get there with continual collaboration from initial discussions, design ideation, final construction and every phase in between. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/douglas-longenecker/message

Personality clashes at work? Play this card game. Successful communication is at the heart of great teamwork, but words can mean different things to different people. We all tend to project our own biases onto commonly used words. Mary and David Sherwin — experts in team dynamics — have devised Teamwords, a collaborative card-based team-building system that cuts through differences to create consensus. If we can agree on the meaning of words at the start of projects, we will understand each other much better as we work together. About Mary Paynter Sherwin: Mary Paynter Sherwin is a seasoned writer, educator, and public speaking coach with expertise in helping individuals and schools develop rigorous curricula and activities for their learning needs. She has worked on multiple successful training programs and product innovation toolkits, such as Kaiser Permanente's i60 Innovation Toolkit with Propelland and frog's Collective Action Toolkit. Along with David, she is on the faculty of PNCA's MFA in Collaborative Design, and was formerly an adjunct professor at St. Mary's College of California. About David Sherwin: David is a design leader, teacher, and strategist with deep expertise in creating new products, services, and training solutions. At companies such as frog, Lynda.com, and LinkedIn, he has led and coached dozens of large-scale product and service design teams, as well as helped to create training workshops and events for clients such as UNICEF, DARPA, and the World Economic Forum. Along with Mary, David is co-author of design bestseller Creative Workshop and Turning People into Teams. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- About Big Think | Smarter Faster™ ► Big Think The leading source of expert-driven, educational content. With thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, Big Think helps you get smarter, faster by exploring the big ideas and core skills that define knowledge in the 21st century. ► Big Think+ Make your business smarter, faster: https://bigthink.com/plus/ Get Smarter, Faster With Interviews From The Worlds Biggest Thinkers. Follow This Podcast And Turn On The Notifications Rate Us With 5 Stars Share This Episode --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigthink/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Product Thinking, product experts Ellen Chisa, Partner at boldstart ventures, and Leon Barnard, Education Team Lead at Balsamiq, join Melissa Perri to discuss the importance of wireframing in product development. They explore the collaborative power of wireframes in product teams, using wireframes as conversation starters, and the benefits of designers having front-end coding knowledge for efficient product outcomes.

Client Dedication, Collaborative Design, and Thoughtful Layout: The owners of Shoalwood, tirelessly searched their ideal Austin neighborhood for their forever home. Their dedication paid off when they found the perfect spot. The Shoalwood Residence beautifully showcases the power of collaboration, with architect Sarah McIntyre and the clients working hand in hand. The client's active involvement and mid-century interior design preferences added layers to the project, resulting in a unique, personalized home. Challenges included crafting a front porch that engages the street without overshadowing and maintaining a harmonious flow throughout. The house's layout promotes visibility from front to backyard, offering a seamless connection. Join the podcast and discover the importance of functional spaces like mudrooms and pantries in daily life. Additionally, learn how versatile spaces can adapt to ever-changing needs. These insights, captured through photography, promise an engaging home tour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When you think about collaborative design tools, chances are you immediately start thinking about Figma, the popular design tool that Adobe wants to acquire for $20 billion.

It's a new era for fashion month, where designer collections are just one piece of the pie. As brands across price points and specialties aim to compete in the increasingly competitive retail landscape, more are taking advantage of the opportunity and approaching it strategically. They're cutting through the noise with innovative marketing tactics, introducing new commerce plays and leveraging advanced digital capabilities to best showcase their products. In a dedicated podcast series running throughout Fashion Month Spring 2024, Glossy and influential leaders are breaking down the evolution of the experiential event, as driven by technology. In this episode, we sit down with Maria Buccellati, co-owner and CEO of Faith Connexion, the 20-year-old fashion brand that hosted a Paris Fashion Week show on Wednesday. Prior to the runway show, the brand wiped its Instagram clean before posting a series of images promoting the event and the brand's plan to make spring 2024 a “redefining season.” Buccellati explained that, moving forward, the brand is taking a collaborative, “Faith Tribe” approach to design and prioritizing “phyygital” products. She also provided details on Faith Connexion's planned expansion within the U.S. market. 

In this episode of Beyond the Inbox, Sam interviews Isabel Aagaard, co-founder and CEO of Last Object, a sustainable brand that creates reusable alternatives to single-use items. Isabel shares the journey of Last Object, the company's marketing strategies, and the future of sustainability. The episode covers Last Object's expansion from creating reusable cotton swabs to other eco-friendly personal care products, the brand's marketing strategies like Facebook and Instagram ads, TikTok reels, and Google ads, and collaborations with eco-friendly brands. Isabel emphasizes the importance of creating sustainable products that are practical and beautiful. For show notes, transcriptions, and past guests on Beyond the Inbox, please visit https://www.drip.com/podcast. And if you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts.

Welcome to the XR Magazine podcast, where we explore the latest trends and innovations in the world of XR, Web 3 & AI. In this episode, we are thrilled to have Julian Park as our special guest. Julian Park is a prominent figure in the XR (Extended Reality) industry and the co-founder and CEO of Bezel, a cutting-edge 3D design tool that empowers XR teams to collaborate seamlessly. With over a decade of experience in the field, Julian has been instrumental in driving innovation in VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) technology. Before starting Bezel, Julian worked as an engineering leader at Oculus, where he was responsible for spearheading crucial projects related to VR multitasking and UI frameworks. He has an exceptional track record of developing complex software systems and has been recognized for his expertise in areas such as computer graphics, user interface design, and real-time rendering. Julian is also an accomplished speaker and has delivered talks at various XR industry events and conferences, sharing his insights on the latest trends and advancements in the field. As a podcast guest on XR MAG, Julian will provide valuable insights into the development of collaborative 3D design tools and the future of XR technology. His expertise and passion for the industry are sure to make for an informative and engaging conversation. This episode will provide you with insights on: The inspiration behind the creation of Bezel and its unique approach to collaborative 3D design for XR teams. How to Combine technical expertise with design thinking to create innovative products How can 3D design tools such as Bezel shape the future of XR technology, and what kind of impact might they have on industries such as gaming, architecture, and product design? How does Bezel make 3D experiences more immersive? How can we make the process of developing software for VR and AR platforms easier and more accessible? Please let me know if you have any questions about this episode or what guests you would like me to bring next! Thanks for your support!

Collin Keen, Director of Collaborative Design at SEI a Financial services company delivering technology and investment solutions that connect the financial services industry. Collin shares his journey of almost 17 years at SEI that evolved to his current role where he is able to advocate and execute design thinking in a 50-year-old enterprise. He shares how failing fast as you are doing front-end research is much more economical than failing late which might result in a loss of both front and back-end dev costs. Collin is enjoying seeing the awareness of the value design can bring as a result of his efforts.

Selected by Fast Company as a Master of Design and one of 50 Most Influential Designers, Kathleen Brandenburg is an internationally recognized founder, thought leader, educator and speaker. Named a “Creative Maverick,” Kathleen has devoted her career to elevating design as a strategic value for business, organizations, and society. An early pioneer and advocate of human-centered design, she was one of the first to link design, business strategy, and innovation when she co-founded IA Collaborative, the global design and innovation consultancy, in 2000. Today, Kathleen is leading the conversation to elevate design's impact even further, championing it as the way solve our world's most urgent problems. A Harvard Visiting Professor of Design for Social Innovation, she is at the forefront of a movement to change the way healthcare understands and applies design, and is the author of Design for Health: The Beginning of a New Dialogue Between Design and Public Health. Kathleen leads work at the forefront of design and business strategy at IA Collaborative. An expert in cross-pollination, she draws from the varied industries IA serves to uncover unexpected connections and opportunities for innovation. She co-developed the company's 7 Elements of Design Innovation™ process that has driven record success for the world's largest brands. Kathleen serves on the Innovation Council at Northwestern University and is on the Board of Directors at IIT Institute of Design.

The long awaited live and in person event The Digital Intersect will take place in Detroit, Michigan on November 17th. Today Thom Singer and Craig Brown welcome back Digital Enterprise Society president and return podcast guest Adam Specht for a look at the details of this event, including speakers, breakout topics, and the benefits that come from meeting in person. Registration is now open!   On today's podcast, you will learn:   Meeting in person again The Digital Intersect will provide the opportunity to meet in person again.  There is an irreplaceable value in meeting in person to exchange ideas, data, and strategies.  Virtual events have served their purpose, but nothing virtual can replace the interactions that happen when people are physically together.    Overcoming the challenges of the virtual workplace This timely topic will be addressed at the conference.  How can you build a winning team culture from the home office?  We are a globally distributed workforce, which requires some virtual interaction.  The Digital Intersect will allow people to meet in person to share strategies for effective virtual connections.    Conference networking strategies  Your one-time attendance at a conference is not the only effort you have to make at networking.  Identify people you can develop long term, mutually beneficial relationships with.  Over a lifetime, career opportunities will come from the people in your network.    An overview of The Digital Intersect The Futurist Simon Anderson will provide a look at the future of the digital community.  Peter Bilello will offer the state of the industry.  Breakout groups will provide opportunities to address current challenges, including Collaborative Design, Digital Thread, and Team Culture.  Vendors will address collaboration and management in a mixed toolset environment.    Maximizing your time at the event Open your mouth, share your ideas and be open to conversation.  Recognize that everyone has a different comfort level post-pandemic and will respect others preferences.  Push yourself to meet one new person at every break or meal.    Continue the conversation with us within the Digital Enterprise Society Community at www.DigitalEnterpriseSociety.org.   Register for The Digital Intersect today   Digital Download: Virtual Round-Table Series

Selected by Fast Company as a Master of Design and one of 50 Most Influential Designers, Kathleen Brandenburg is an internationally recognized founder, thought leader, educator and speaker. Named a “Creative Maverick,” Kathleen has devoted her career to elevating design as a strategic value for business, organizations, and society. An early pioneer and advocate of human-centered design, she was one of the first to link design, business strategy, and innovation when she co-founded IA Collaborative, the global design and innovation consultancy, in 2000. Today, Kathleen is leading the conversation to elevate design's impact even further, championing it as the way solve our world's most urgent problems. A Harvard Visiting Professor of Design for Social Innovation, she is at the forefront of a movement to change the way healthcare understands and applies design, and is the author of Design for Health: The Beginning of a New Dialogue Between Design and Public Health. Kathleen leads work at the forefront of design and business strategy at IA Collaborative. An expert in cross-pollination, she draws from the varied industries IA serves to uncover unexpected connections and opportunities for innovation. She co-developed the company's 7 Elements of Design Innovation™ process that has driven record success for the world's largest brands. Kathleen serves on the Innovation Council at Northwestern University and is on the Board of Directors at IIT Institute of Design.

Today on The Chrome Cast podcast, we are back with another interview episode, chatting with Noah Levin, the Director of Design at Figma. If you aren't familiar with Figma, it's a powerful design and prototyping tool that was built from the ground up to be run in the browser. Because of that fact, you can leverage powerful collaborative tools so you don't have to worry about local files or coordinating whether or not your team is working from the most updated version of a project. It's like the Google Docs of design and prototyping. LINKS Figma Collaborative Design Platform FigJam Online Whiteboard for Teams Google partners up with Figma to bring the popular design tool to Chromebooks Figma for Education Commons Conference by Figma for Edu This episode is sponsored by VIZOR - Chromebook 1:1 Management Software for Schools. CLICK HERE to find out how VIZOR can help your School manage Chromebooks. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chromeunboxed/support

Susana La Luz-Hawkins is the Research Department Director of Design & Customer Experience at J.P. Morgan Chase. Susana gave a talk at the Epic Conference 2015 titled “The Missing Tool in the Design Leadership Toolbox: Integrating Conflict Management into Collaborative Design.” As design and UX teams continue to grow, managing conflict might be even more critical today, and in this episode, Susana shares some best practices for managing conflict.

Wendy Hoddinott shares her life journey in this episode and what has led her to focus on colloborative design of our shared spaces, as well as working on heritage related projects.  We also talk about the Gather Foundation which is a charity she founded which has a unique focus using its Place Cadets program: "Gather Foundation empowers Ōtautahi's tamariki and rangatahi to co-design outdoor environments in their schools, neighbourhoods and communities", and "Wendy works with Gather Foundation to develop child-centric design programmes, drawing on children and young people's knowledge and lived experiences, so that the final outcome is a reflection of their aspirations, rather than adult assumptions of the places they want to live and play." If you enjoy this conversation then why not tell one other person about the show, subscribe, leave a rating and review and check out some of the 300 other episodes at www.theseeds.nz  Gather Foundation: https://www.gatherfoundation.org.nz/  Gather Landscape: https://gatherla.nz/  Email: wendy@gatherla.nz  A documentary on Place Cadets by John Sellwood: https://vimeo.com/391774977 

Software is developed in teams so design decision must be done collaboratively. Links Book: Jitske Kramer - Jam Cultures: About Inclusion; Joining in the Action, Conversation and Decisions Book: Sam Kaner - Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making Book: Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg - What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve Blog: Rebecca Wirfs-Brock: Architecture Decisions Should Be Made At the Last Responsible Moment Sketchnote: Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People

The Ninth Age is a mass fantasy battle miniature game designed and maintained by teams of collaborators across the globe. One of those collaborators is Rik Newman who joins us on this episode of the Tabletop Miniature Hobby Podcast. Rik comes to the show with a background that many will relate to. He grew up with the hobby in the 80s and 90s, only to fall away from it before returning later on in adult life.Here, we talk about that return to the hobby, his initial thoughts about how gaming and miniatures had changed, and the omnipresent question of "what did they do to Warhammer Fantasy Battles?".It wasn't long before Rik found himself discovering, drawn towards, and then involved in The Ninth Age. This was a game that was undoubtedly born out of the ashes of WFB, but it has since grown into its own independent entity with its own lore.  The Ninth Age has a certain ethos about it. It's designed with balance in mind, and caters to "slow hobbyists" who want to collect armies over a long period of time, rather than quickly putting together the latest greatest list in order to win a few games.With this slower approach, hobbyists can immerse themselves in the background and lore of a particular faction, exploring all of its avenues and possibilities.On this episode, we also touch on 3D printing, and I recommend checking out the Precinct Omega podcast for some great insights down that particular rabbit hole. Precinct Omega is run by a previous guest on this show Robey Jenkins.Also mentioned on this episode: the Collecting Green blog (which focuses on collecting orcs, goblins, and other greenskins), Rik's Agoners gaming blog, and the Tabletop Miniature Hobby Podcast Podchaser page.Please also take a moment to subscribe to this show on your listening app of choice – that way you'll never miss a future episode!

When someone from a technical discipline needs to collaborate with someone from a more creative discipline, it can be a challenge for both sides to communicate their needs and ideas in a way that moves the project forward. This week we sat down with Sadie Koehler, Associate Creative Director at Principal Financial Group, to discuss how to bridge the gap for more effective design consultations.  What we discussed: - How Sadie’s experience as a designer in a large corporation differs from her experience as a freelancer - The most common barriers that lead to discomfort between designers and their clients during consultations - How to use reflective listening and other communication techniques to make sure everyone is on the same page - The best approach to prioritize a client’s needs while still managing expectations on a project - Why it’s important to communicate the rationale behind the design process and leave space for criticism

Natasha Espada, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP BD+C is the founder and Principal of STUDIO ENÉE Architects. She has over 25 years of design and construction expertise in both renovation and new construction for institutional, civic, and commercial clients. Natasha served as the 2020 President of the Boston Society for Architecture. Her platform focused on equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice in the profession, as well as working to make Boston a Design City by bringing art and design to all neighborhoods in Boston. She has been a speaker on Equity and Practice at the AIA Grassroots Conference in Washington, D.C., AIA Connecticut’s Equity Summit, and AIA New Hampshire’s The Future of Practice Conference. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University and has been a design critic and lecturer at Harvard GSD, MIT, Yale, Wentworth, Roger Williams, and the BAC. Since 2012, she has served on the Committee for Green Communities and the board of the Permanent Public Building Committee in Needham, MA. Natasha is a graduate of University of Florida and holds a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Virginia with a certificate in American Urbanism. In this episode you’ll hear: When Natasha decided she was ready to start her own firm The prep that went into it before she made the jump The biggest challenge of starting the practice On forming a new, collaborating type of design practice Her goals for the firm, and what the ideal size is Natasha’s experience as an adjunct professor The idea of code switching and feeling like you need to hide your true self at work When Natasha realized she could be herself Advice for emerging professionals who feel like they still have to mask themselves at work Natasha’s work as the 2020 President of BSA, and what she plans to do next -- LEARN more at www.designvoicepodcast.com FOLLOW the show on Instagram @designvoicepodcast EMAIL us at hello@designvoicepodcast.com

Jose Cotto is the Collaborative Design Project Manager at the Tulane School of Architecture Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design. Among his many responsibilities in the Small Center, he works on various design projects, fosters partnerships with Tulane University departments and community stakeholders, and leads a seminar course on public space in New Orleans, guiding Tulane students as they explore the connections between our created environment and social dynamics. In this interview, we learned that Cotto comes from Worcester, Massachusetts. Specifically speaking, he grew up in Great Brook Valley, a small housing project. Cotto emphasizes that he grew up in a housing project, as he feels his upbringing there has shaped much of his life that followed from forming how he perceives the world to what he has chosen to be passionate about. The path of going into design and architecture was not a linear one for Cotto. He initially intended to go into mathematics as he was a math major. When reflecting on how he initially got involved in this discipline, he thinks of the great math teachers he had, specifically one teacher that challenged him and did not let him fall behind. This teacher's impact really helped Cotto see the importance of teachers and mentors for young students (especially in inner-city environments like the one he grew up in). When he realized going into mathematics really meant a lot of isolating himself and problem sets, he began to think of shifting his major into something that focused more on relationships, which made him think about the physical and social environment around him. After talking to some faculty at his undergraduate college, the University of Massachusetts, he found that design and architecture provided these kinds of conversations and teachings. While design may have flashy names and complicated vernacular, at the end of the day, we are all designing for people to make this world a better place. The process can be exhausting. The technology can be complicated, but the goal is bigger than the process, so Cotto encourages designers and non-designers alike to lean in, remember the big picture, and why it's important to engage in this work in the first place. Episode Webpage: https://taylor.tulane.edu/design-thinking/hellopluriverse/jose-cotto/ About Jose Cotto https://architecture.tulane.edu/people/jose-cotto https://www.linkedin.com/in/jccotto/   About the Small Center https://small.tulane.edu/ https://www.instagram.com/smallcenter.tulane/ https://www.facebook.com/smallcenter.tulane/ https://twitter.com/smallcenter_tu

As school leaders, we wear many hats. Because there is so much to accomplish in one day, we can easily become overwhelmed. But we don't have to do the work on our own. In fact, it's probably better to include other teachers and leaders in the work. In this episode, Michael Mckenzie, CEO of a charter school network and founder of a non-profit that focuses on youth mentorship, teaches us how to build collaborative design teams. This is episode is packed with value. Here's what you'll learn: How to identify members of your collaborative design team.How to establish norms for collaborative design sessions How to create your school's narrative with your design teams. Don't forget to join the EOP Leadership NetworkFollow Brandon on Twitter @MrBrandonHouseFollow Michael on Twitter @ResilienceIsArtJohn Coltrane - NaimaJohn Blasingame - Black New Orleans, 1860-1880--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ann Yoachim joins us for a cheerful, enthusiastic, and passionate conversation. The energy Ann brings to this interview is surely indicative of the energy she brings to her role as director of Tulane's Small Center of Collaborative Design. Reflecting on the creative process, our nonlinear conversation sparked a powerful exploration of identity, impact design, and design as a coalition builder. Ann was born and raised in Northern Pennsylvania, right near the New York state border. Though she didn't realize it until later, her rural roots forged her interest in people and their relationship to place related to their upbringing. In particular, her curiosity fixated on distant unseen places because of her father's military service in Vietnam. Ann majored in political science and environmental studies. Her dual degree served her with theoretical and pragmatic knowledge, allowing her to work with people through meaningful service-learning. Tulane's Small Center of Collaborative Design works closely with organizations led by and in the service of people of color. Ann acknowledged that design services often target the wealthy in the context of fields of architecture and urban planning. The Small Center is mindful of making diverse hires and perpetuating an ongoing dialogue of power dynamics, race, and privilege. This supports their mission to provide design services to those who are traditionally underserved by the design community. Their commitment to engagement, co-creation, and humility allows their design work to be informed, first and foremost, by the communities they serve. Episode webpage: https://taylor.tulane.edu/design-thinking/hellopluriverse/ann-yoachim/   Related Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-yoachim-589b163/  https://small.tulane.edu/ 

With ThorpyFX announcing a new crowd-sourced pedal design process, could 2021 see more in the guitar world turning to collaborative design to engage with the community and gain a more invested following in their work? ThorpyFX announcement: instagram.com/p/CJi1dj0MeHr/ Today's music: listen.20buckspin.com/album/enlightened-in-eternity

We the designers know that Collaborative Design can be challenging!

Crystal Sundaramoorthy is User researcher, interaction designer, and former engineer with over 15 years’ experience working on Global Banking and Markets solutions for Global Transaction Services and the CashPro platform. She is presently the VP of UX research at Bank of America. She is also an inventor with a thirteen patents on her name. In this episode, Crystal had shared great insights on Collaborative Design and how Collaboration makes us better designers. We later discussed how to introduce collaborative design and run it effectively across various teams, along with various ways in which one can develop a collaborative mindset on an individual level. We spoke on a few best practices for a collaborative model that embraces an inclusive and perfectly fits all and How to Avoid Designing by Committee. Takeaways: What is a collaborative design? How to nurture a collaborative mindset. How to Avoid Designing by Committee. Tales from Designers around the world - medium.com/design-warp Crystal Sundaramoorthy recommends books: Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction by Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp Understanding Your Users: A Practical Guide to User Research Methods by Kathy Baxter, Catherine Courage, Kelly Caine Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change by Amy Bucher Thank you for listening to this episode of Nodes of Design. We hope you enjoy the Nodes of Design Podcast on your favourite podcast platforms- Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts and many more. If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

One of the coolest new companies in the space of design, Figma has quickly become the dominant player in its space, with its highly collaborative, cloud-based design & prototyping functionalities.We talk about Noah’s early passion for design, his varied design experiences, joining Figma and building the highly talented teams making design accessible to everyone!This should be a fun one for anyone who loves design across the physical & digital world!Support the show (https://thingshavechanged.substack.com/)

Changing the culture of an organization is not something that happens overnight. Collaborative design and cross-functional teams can take years to get right. So how do you make the changes necessary to get everyone on the same page? According to Scott Prugh, Chief Architect and SVP of Software Engineering at CSG, using mistakes and miscommunications as a learning tool is key.Today on Innovation and the Digital Enterprise, Scott discusses how to create software-first companies, why incident reports are important for growth, and heritage versus legacy companies. Scott also shares Shook’s Model of Cultural Change to illustrate his thinking. Listen for more!(01:38) - CSG International(03:46) - Bill payments(05:50) - Be heritage, not legacy(12:50) - Value stream alignment(14:52) - Cultural evolution(19:15) - Unplanned investment(22:36) - Beyond the symptom(30:16) - Getting the ball rollingScott Prugh is the Chief Architect and Senior Vice President of Software Development for CSG International. He leads development and delivery teams for CSG’s North American billing and customer care platform.As a 20-year technology industry veteran, Scott has broad experience across development and operations functions for companies ranging from small startups to large enterprises. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Bucknell University.If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to Innovation and the Digital Enterprise in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.Podcast episode production by Dante32.

David and Mary Sherwin work with design teams in for-profit and nonprofit organizations via their consulting business, Ask The Sherwins, LLC. They’re also professors at the Pacific College of Art in the Design and Collaboration Program. In this episode, we go deep into designing teams, consider more effective ways to teach design and teams, and ways to make teams work when working remotely with Dawan Stanford, your podcast host. Show Summary David's background is in engineering and liberal arts. He graduated with an English degree, but had a side hustle doing graphic design. That’s where he discovered an interest in design. Much of his early design learning and education was accomplished by apprenticing at various design studios Then, he shifted into product and service design, and he worked in product development for some large software organizations.  Mary started in organizational development and content strategy, and then moved into teaching within the design discipline. Much of Mary's experience had been working with designers. Most of David's experience was from a designer's standpoint, working with people like Mary. Mary and David realized that the work they were doing on their respective paths had a lot of synergy and that they each held half of the solution. They started teaching together seven years ago. Three years after that, they founded their company after students in a special graduate-level teamwork class told them they should start their own business, because this was something companies wanted their employees to learn.  Since starting  Ask The Sherwins, Mary and David have discovered and developed the nuances of developing strong, well-functioning teams. From facilitating your new team at the start of the design process, to what to do when your team feels like it's falling apart, to working through cultural differences, Mary and David have robust processes for all of these team challenges. They discuss their management style, team-building exercises, and team maintenance practices on team design. Listen in to learn Why Mary and David’s ability to “professionally disagree” gives them an advantage when working with design clients Why their two different career paths gives two different perspectives on the design process About cultural biases, assumptions, and their role in design solutions Why Mary and David encourage students and professors to teach and learn from each other Advice on how to start your team Mary and David’s team facilitation process during their first meeting Team word tools to use when the team situation gets difficult When you should use behavioral questioning Our Guests’ Bio David and Mary Sherwin are co-founders of Ask The Sherwins, LLC, a consulting and training firm that helps design organizations develop the capabilities they need for better product design and stronger cross-functional teamwork. They have recently coached product and service design teams and provided training around innovation best practices for organizations such as Philips Oral Healthcare, Tipping Point Community, The Purpose Project, Google UX Community and Culture, and Eventbrite. The Sherwins are also active in the design education space. They lead workshops in the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design’s Summer School and currently teach in the MFA in Collaborative Design program at PNCA. In their spare time, David and Mary have collaborated on three books, including their most recent, Turning People Into Teams.   Show Highlights  [02:15] Mary and David talk about their origin story and how they arrived where they are now in design.  [04:26] How Mary’s experience in teaching played out in her design experience. [07:48] Components of a team from Mary and David’s perspective.  [10:08] Prototyping for norms, teams and individual thinking. [11:08] Advice for starting a team off well. [11:46] The importance of having team members discuss their values and the behaviors they want to see in the team. [12:50] The Why’s and How’s of the  Team Words card deck created by Mary and David. [16:55] How talking through values and behaviors at the beginning helps teams save time and deal with challenges and misunderstandings. [19:43] Ways a team’s “status quo”  can create invisible walls and obstacles for new team members.  [22: 35] What to do when everything that can go wrong with a team has gone wrong. [24:49] Habits to bring to your team to encourage connection and mutual support. [27:39] Why you should have a clear “etiquette” for your team. [28:53] How their consulting work influences what they teach. [30:38] Lessons they teach students when they deliberately break up a team. [33:56] Advice from Mary and David on how and who to hire or choose for a team.  [35:35] When a design challenge as part of the interview process can be helpful. [36:18] The two go-to “silver bullet” questions Mary likes — one for the interviewer and the interviewee. [40:57] A look at how David and Mary “ride along” on a project, and how they tailor their coaching strategy to the client. [43:18] Ways of working with remote team members and teams. [46:34] Technology, remote work, and working within human time limitations. [50:00] Advice to teams on how to make improvements and changes. [52:03] Mary and David talk about books they’ve read, their own books, and their ephemeral advice column.   Links Design Thinking 101 Fluid Hive Design Innovation Ask the Sherwins, LLC Contact Mary and David Teamwords: The Working Deck Books by David and Mary Sherwin: Turning People into Teams Creative Workshops Success by Design Book Recommendation: The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, by Erin Meyer   Other Design Thinking 101 Episodes You Might Like   Humble Design Leadership + Design Agency and Experience Design Evolution with Aleksandra Melnikova — DT101 E33   The Evolution of Teaching and Learning Design with Bruce Hanington — DT101 E39 ________________   Thank you for listening to the show and looking at the show notes. Send your questions, suggestions, and guest ideas to Dawan and the Fluid Hive team. Cheers ~ Dawan   Free Download — Design Driven Innovation: Avoid Innovation Traps with These 9 Steps   Innovation Smart Start Webinar — Take your innovation projects from frantic to focused!

David and Mary Sherwin work with design teams in for-profit and nonprofit organizations via their consulting business, Ask The Sherwins, LLC. They're also professors at the Pacific College of Art in the Design and Collaboration Program. In this episode, we go deep into designing teams, consider more effective ways to teach design and teams, and ways to make teams work when working remotely with Dawan Stanford, your podcast host. Show Summary David's background is in engineering and liberal arts. He graduated with an English degree, but had a side hustle doing graphic design. That's where he discovered an interest in design. Much of his early design learning and education was accomplished by apprenticing at various design studios Then, he shifted into product and service design, and he worked in product development for some large software organizations.  Mary started in organizational development and content strategy, and then moved into teaching within the design discipline. Much of Mary's experience had been working with designers. Most of David's experience was from a designer's standpoint, working with people like Mary. Mary and David realized that the work they were doing on their respective paths had a lot of synergy and that they each held half of the solution. They started teaching together seven years ago. Three years after that, they founded their company after students in a special graduate-level teamwork class told them they should start their own business, because this was something companies wanted their employees to learn.  Since starting  Ask The Sherwins, Mary and David have discovered and developed the nuances of developing strong, well-functioning teams. From facilitating your new team at the start of the design process, to what to do when your team feels like it's falling apart, to working through cultural differences, Mary and David have robust processes for all of these team challenges. They discuss their management style, team-building exercises, and team maintenance practices on team design. Listen in to learn Why Mary and David's ability to “professionally disagree” gives them an advantage when working with design clients Why their two different career paths gives two different perspectives on the design process About cultural biases, assumptions, and their role in design solutions Why Mary and David encourage students and professors to teach and learn from each other Advice on how to start your team Mary and David's team facilitation process during their first meeting Team word tools to use when the team situation gets difficult When you should use behavioral questioning Our Guests' Bio David and Mary Sherwin are co-founders of Ask The Sherwins, LLC, a consulting and training firm that helps design organizations develop the capabilities they need for better product design and stronger cross-functional teamwork. They have recently coached product and service design teams and provided training around innovation best practices for organizations such as Philips Oral Healthcare, Tipping Point Community, The Purpose Project, Google UX Community and Culture, and Eventbrite. The Sherwins are also active in the design education space. They lead workshops in the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design's Summer School and currently teach in the MFA in Collaborative Design program at PNCA. In their spare time, David and Mary have collaborated on three books, including their most recent, Turning People Into Teams.   Show Highlights  [02:15] Mary and David talk about their origin story and how they arrived where they are now in design.  [04:26] How Mary's experience in teaching played out in her design experience. [07:48] Components of a team from Mary and David's perspective.  [10:08] Prototyping for norms, teams and individual thinking. [11:08] Advice for starting a team off well. [11:46] The importance of having team members discuss their values and the behaviors they want to see in the team. [12:50] The Why's and How's of the  Team Words card deck created by Mary and David. [16:55] How talking through values and behaviors at the beginning helps teams save time and deal with challenges and misunderstandings. [19:43] Ways a team's “status quo”  can create invisible walls and obstacles for new team members.  [22: 35] What to do when everything that can go wrong with a team has gone wrong. [24:49] Habits to bring to your team to encourage connection and mutual support. [27:39] Why you should have a clear “etiquette” for your team. [28:53] How their consulting work influences what they teach. [30:38] Lessons they teach students when they deliberately break up a team. [33:56] Advice from Mary and David on how and who to hire or choose for a team.  [35:35] When a design challenge as part of the interview process can be helpful. [36:18] The two go-to “silver bullet” questions Mary likes — one for the interviewer and the interviewee. [40:57] A look at how David and Mary “ride along” on a project, and how they tailor their coaching strategy to the client. [43:18] Ways of working with remote team members and teams. [46:34] Technology, remote work, and working within human time limitations. [50:00] Advice to teams on how to make improvements and changes. [52:03] Mary and David talk about books they've read, their own books, and their ephemeral advice column.   Links Design Thinking 101 Fluid Hive Design Innovation Ask the Sherwins, LLC Contact Mary and David Teamwords: The Working Deck Books by David and Mary Sherwin: Turning People into Teams Creative Workshops Success by Design Book Recommendation: The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, by Erin Meyer   Other Design Thinking 101 Episodes You Might Like   Humble Design Leadership + Design Agency and Experience Design Evolution with Aleksandra Melnikova — DT101 E33   The Evolution of Teaching and Learning Design with Bruce Hanington — DT101 E39 ________________   Thank you for listening to the show and looking at the show notes. Send your questions, suggestions, and guest ideas to Dawan and the Fluid Hive team. Cheers ~ Dawan   Free Download — Design Driven Innovation: Avoid Innovation Traps with These 9 Steps   Innovation Smart Start Webinar — Take your innovation projects from frantic to focused!

Join Steve Chaparro, Founder of Culture Design Studio as he gets interviewed in his own podcast by John Corcoran of Rise25 Media where he talks about the application of design thinking when creating a cultural shift. Tune in as he shares his thoughts on reorganization and creating frameworks in the process of applying design thinking, the importance of a human-centered approach when enacting change,and why change almost always has to begin in the C-suite. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Culture Design Show, podcast host Steve Chaparro gets interviewed by John Corcoran of Rise25 Media about the importance of awareness in creating cultural shifts. Steve reveals how significant cultural shifts happen as a movement of change rather than a mandate from the top down, the role of leaders in implementing change, and the importance of identifying and addressing problems within the company in the process of creating a new culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the last couple years, I’ve been on a slow but steady journey of becoming somebody who is less wasteful. I may not get to the point of being able to fit all my trash from the month into a mason jar, but I have been making slow, intentional choices to reduce and use less waste. Along this journey, there have been certain items that have made me wonder, “Could there be a zero waste option for this?” Especially for bathroom products like Q tips and tissues. There have not been many options on the market…until today! My guest this week is Isabel Aagaard, founder of Last Object, a Danish design trio who have chosen to tackle some of the least sexy objects out there like cotton swabs and disposable tissues. They are addressing the problem of single-use items and looking past the highly visible culprits like plastic bottles and straws. Last Swab is the reusable alternative to cotton swabs, which replace the need for the 1.5 billion single-use Q tips produced daily, only to be thrown out after one use. Last Tissue saves 2 liters of water per tissue and has become wildly popular on Kickstarter. Prior to founding Last Object, Isabel designed the first reusable chemotherapy bag to reduce waste in the medical industry, and it is now being used all over Denmark. I was fascinated with this conversation with Isabel and know you’re going to love learning about these unique designs that’s changing the world! 4:22 - The Isabel 101 Isabel was born and raised in the beautiful city of Copenhagen, Denmark. She has an IT background and obtained a master’s degree in collaborative design. That background brought her to where she is today, along with her passion for the environment and startups. All of Isabel’s focus combines sustainability with collaborative design efforts. She loves exploring how to create and make things that are usable in collaboration with the people who will be using them. Isabel’s worlds meet at the intersection of anthropology and collaboration and is referred to as Co-design. It’s a field that’s grown in the last few years and has started to spread through other countries. As an example, when working for hospitals, instead of looking at patients and creating a design solution for them, Isabel creates tools to help patients design their own solutions. It takes people, interactions, and their abilities into account, instead of being a designer who decides what they think is best for the design. 8:29 – Last Object Last Object’s mission is to create an alternative to single-use items. They started with Last Swab and Last Tissue as the first two products. There are three designers (one of whom is Isabel’s brother). When Isabel was working in design for hospitals, the idea for starting a sustainable design business started over lunch one day with her brother and a designer named Cole. In doing various research on the contributing facts to pollution with single-use items, they found that Q tips were one of the 10 biggest contributors to waste on the planet. They also knew they wanted to tackle issues that have not been tackled already (like alternatives to plastic straws). They also wanted to look at single-use items that are frequently used, so that cutting down of those products would make a huge impact. Last Object starts the design process by thinking of the simplest way to recreate a reusable product. It has to be something you would know how to use just by looking at the design. There are many iterations that happen before a final product comes to fruition. The team continues prototyping, using different forms, scaling up, scaling down, and testing with 3D printing, and experimenting with paint palettes. Last Object debuted in April 2019. The initial reactions in the marketplace started about 50/50 on social media. Some loved it, others thought it was gross, but the most important thing that happened was people were talking about it. 16:40 - Speaking of Questions, “How Does it Work?” Last Swab is made of a durable core plastic, and the ends are made of TPE, which is a plastic that has a similar feeling to silicon. The tips are melded together to be sure they don’t come apart. Each swab also comes with its own carrying case that keeps it hygienic to carry with you or store in your bathroom. One swab is a version for cleaning your ears with a textured surface to help clean. Another version if for makeup application with a soft, pointed end to use for detail or removing excess makeup. Both swabs can be washed easily with soap and water. Last Tissue is sort of like a modern-day handkerchief. It’s six small handkerchiefs in a hypoallergenic box. Isabel describes it as if a handkerchief and a tissue box had a baby. That way you can keep your handkerchief in a hygienic place instead of stuffing it into your pocket. Environmentally, the swab and tissues help cut down on waste. 21:17 – Collaborative Design for the Future Last Object is looking at some more complicated design processes for future products that replace single-use products, but plan on staying on the bathroom objects side of design. Toilet paper isn’t at the top of their next design plans, but it’s still on the list! It’s just more of the “holy grail” of design. Isabel says if they figure out the toilet paper design, they can go ahead and retire. 23:07 – Get Your Hands On Last Swab or Last Tissue! Last Object has a system of testing and love to try out everything they make. When they launched their Last Swab, they did so on Kickstarter. They have a website where they sell their products but always release them on a crowd funding site first. Last Tissue just finished a campaign on Indiegogo and will launch on the website soon. You can enter your email address to be informed when they’re in stock. The next brand new product launch is planned for the end of this summer, so stay tuned! 25:00 – Reducing Waste in the Medical Industry When Isabel was in design school, her department was contacted by the local hospital asking if there were any designers interested in helping find a solution to create reusable chemotherapy bags in order to be able to allow patients to receive chemotherapy at home. It started as a school group project with four other co-designers, and when Isabel’s group completed their design, two of the members went out to figure out how to actually produce it. It took about a year, but they were able to get the bags produced and all the hospitals have since bought into the reusable chemotherapy bag! You can find Last Object and follow their work on Instagram (@lastswab and @lastobject) where they’re always updating about new products. 27:11 – Getting to Know Our Guest Find out what Isabel is learning about herself during Covid-19, who she’d most like to sit next to on a 16-hour flight and why, what she would do differently if she knew no one was judging her, what she’s reading right now, and the question I ask all my guests, “What does it mean to you to run a business with purpose?” Memorable Quotes: 13:27 - “We wanted to tell you what the product is doing by just design. That’s why we want to refer to how it looks or how the single-use item looks.” 16:00 - “It actually created a conversation, and that’s exactly what you want when you’re designing something. You want people to question it.” 20:52- “We wanted to take the convenient, modern side of the tissue pack and then really incorporate making it into something that could actually be good for the environment.” 22:12 - “I can tell you that we’re going to stay in the bathroom area because that’s a really fun area to be in. We’re gonna make some more ‘ew’ products.”

The world of Collaborative Design Management is vast and we’ve only hit the tip of the iceberg in what can be done with these processes. In this episode I’m joined by Gary Lindsay, Product Manager at Siemens Digital Industries. We discuss what Collaborative Design Management is all about, how it’s been integrated into its field, as well as some emerging and evolving trends within the space. The area of Design is one that encourages its engineers to adapt to the world around them. Finding ways to implement targeted practices that are diverse and separate from traditional methods is the most effective way we can engage our consumers and ensure we are staying up to date as creators. If you’re interested to learn more about this ever-growing industry and get some well-rounded insights from an expert in the field, then have a listen to Episode 6 of Next Generation Design!Some Questions I Ask:Could you define what Collaborative Design Management is? (2:11)Where are you seeing this technology being adopted in other industries? (9:21) Where do you see Collaborative Design Management going in the future? (21:13)How can my listeners connect with you and the Siemens team for more information on this topic? (24:18)In This Episode You Will Learn:Background on how Gary Lindsay ended up in the Data Management space (0:41)How to facilitate the concept of reusing in the Collaborative Design space (6:51)Examples of design trends & How they have evolved (10:38)A breakdown of Change Management and communication (11:39)Ways to start implementing Change Management into your business (15:00)Connect With Jennifer Piper:LinkedinSiemens Digital Industries - WebsiteSiemens Digital Industries - Facebook Siemens - TwitterSiemens - InstagramConnect With Gary Lindsay:LinkedIn See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Product design is collaborative, but with extended shelter-in-place guidelines, teams have had to reassess what it means to work together. Figma is one of the best tools for product creators working remotely, but even before we were relegated to our homes, Figma had become essential to us at All Turtles because of its intuitive features. Figma's Director of Product Sho Kuwamoto joins us today to walk through how they continue to iterate on the creation of indispensable tools.    Show notes Sho Kuwamoto is the Director of Product at Figma. Figma has its own guidelines for remote design process. Figma recently raised its series D.     We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

In this episode, Andrew interviews Kerem Suer, VP of Design at Carbon Health. They talk about Kerem’s journey into design, and discuss how designers can work more collaboratively and holistically with the entire product team to push businesses further.

Rick Valicenti (founder and design director of Thirst, a communication design practice for clients in the architectural, performing arts and education communities), Iker Gil (architect, director of MAS Studio, editor in chief of the quarterly design journal, MAS Context), and Jenn Stucker (associate professor and division chair of graphic design at BGSU, founding board member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA Toledo) discuss community-based collaborative design.    Transcript: Introduction: From Bowling Green State University and the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, this is BG Ideas. Intro Song Lyrics: I'm going to show you this with a wonderful experiment. Jolie Sheffer: Welcome to the BG Ideas podcast, a collaboration between the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society and the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. I'm Jolie Sheffer, associate professor of English and american culture studies and the director of ICS. Today we're joined by three guests working in collaborative design fields. First is Rick Valicenti, the founder and design director of Thirst, a communication design practice for clients in the architectural, performing arts and education communities. His work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art and resides in the permanent collections of the Yale University Library, Denver Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2011, he was honored by the White House with the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for communication design. Jolie Sheffer: We're also joined by Iker Gil, an architect, the director of MAS Studio, editor in chief of the quarterly design journal, MAS Context, and the editor of the book, Shanghai Transforming. He curated the exhibition, Bold: Alternative Scenarios for Chicago, included in the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial. Iker is the associate curator of the US Pavilion at the 16th Annual Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2010, he received the Emerging Visions Award from the Chicago Architectural Club. Jolie Sheffer: Finally, I'd like to welcome Jenn Stucker an associate professor and division chair of graphic design at BGSU. Her work has been published in several books on design and she's received various awards including two international design awards from How Magazine for her community based works in Toledo. She's also a founding board member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA Toledo. And she previously co-chaired two national AIGA design education conferences. Jolie Sheffer: The three of them are here to talk to me as part of the Edwin H. Simmons Creative Minds series. Thank you and welcome to BGSU. I'm thrilled to discuss more of your work on creativity and collaboration. I like to start by having you each give a little background on your current work and how you came into the kind of design work that you're doing. So Rick, how did your career change from your time as a student at BGSU to your work now? What are some of those major u-turns or forks in the road for you? Rick Valicenti: Well, thank you. That's a good question. That's a really good question. Okay, so let me fast backwards to 1973 when I graduated from Bowling Green. I went back to Pittsburgh, spent some time in a steel mill for two years, went to graduate school at the University of Iowa. Came to Chicago afterwards with two graduate degrees in photography and discovered that I was not interested in photographing hotdogs, cornflakes and beer. So with that I thought I would leverage a time in the writer's workshop doing a little bit of letter press work as well as my time at Bowling Green studying design. And I thought I'll be a designer. It wasn't that easy. But it has been a journey for now almost four decades since then to get to a place where I feel there's relevance in what I do. And that has been the challenge, and it continues to be the challenge. Design, as you know, is a practice that has at its core, or patronage, somebody else. Rick Valicenti: In fact, it's been said you have to be given permission to practice graphic design. Not necessarily the case, you can do self-initiated projects. And it was in leveraging what I learned in graduate school, which was how to make up a project, how to provide for myself a thesis and then create work in response to that. That has allowed me to both do that on my own as well as in collaboration with other people. And then to encourage younger designers under some guidance to do the same. And of late, the more interesting work has been work that has been related to an issue, not unlike the work that Jenn practices in her classwork. But to me that's the most fulfilling and it was unfortunately not the work that I showed because it was work I was prepared to end the evening with. But I chose because we had been blabbing for so long last night to just stop early. But it's okay. Jolie Sheffer: Tell me what led you to start your own firm? Rick Valicenti: I was one of those lucky designers who, while it was difficult to crack the Chicago design scene, two years of doing what I would refer to as thankless design work, design work where I was asked to do something prescriptive. Like do this by Friday. Yes, I could do that. I was quite good at it. I lucked out by having the opportunity to be the dark room guy for a very reputable Chicago designer, who was at that time 63 years old. And so in his last three and a half years of practice I had moved from the new guy in the studio to the last employee he had. And it was a fantastic experience to be in the company of real design practice. Design practice that understood the history, it understood the present, and it was looking out to the future. This guy was connected to the other thought leaders in the Chicago design community and I had access to them even though it was vicarious. Jolie Sheffer: Great. Thank you. Iker, tell us about your journey into Chicago architecture and the current kinds of collaboration you do. How has your approach to design changed over time and what were some of those key junctures for you? Iker: So I'm originally from Bilbao, which is a city in the North of Spain in the Basque country. And I think a lot of the changes in design and a lot of the ways that I've been thinking had been motivated also by the change of place or how the people that I've encounter or any other aspects that really change as I move from other places. So from Bilbao I went to Barcelona to study architecture. I had the chance there to not only have the professors that were faculty there, but also other visiting professors, like David Chipperfield and Kazuyo Sejima. So that was a way of beginning to connect with other experiences that maybe were not the local ones. And I was very interested in expanding that. And I've had the luck to get a scholarship from IIT in Chicago to go there for a year. Iker: So it was a little bit coincidentally in a way that I ended up in Chicago. And I was there for a year as an exchange student, I still had to do my thesis so I went back to Spain. But there was something about Chicago, a apart from my girlfriend that now is my wife, who is from Chicago. But there was something very intriguing about the city, a lot of potential, very different from being in Barcelona. But there was something always in Barcelona that was interesting for me about the cultural aspect of architecture. There was the aspects of people building a significant building or just a civic building that there was always a publication and an exhibition, a way of coming together to talk about why those things were important. Iker: So when I went to Chicago, when I moved back and I did my master's, I worked for an office. I was always interested in the ADL, the community, the design community, the architecture community. How do you strengthen that and how do you create the platforms to do that beyond what you can design? So I decided at some point that I really wanted to make sure that I did both of those things. And I went on my own about 11 years ago just to make sure that I could create the designs within my office, but create other platforms for others to have that conversation. And more recently I've been able to create the structures to support or organize design competitions and really began being interested in not only the final product, but how do you structure the conditions for those things to happen. Jolie Sheffer: So you're talking about not just designing buildings, but designing communities and relationships. Iker: Yep. And I think that's a role of, in my case, an architect or designers. Like the work that you do, but also the work in the city that you do. And how are you part of the community, and also how are you proactive shaping that community? Not something that you want to benefit from someone else's effort to structure something. What is what you can do and why you can give to the community back? Jolie Sheffer: Great. Jenn, talk to us about your path into graphic design and how your approach has shifted over time. Jenn Stucker: So I was at graduate here at BGSU. Very proud of the training and the experience that I had from Ron Giacomini, a chair that Rick also had the opportunity to study under. And when I graduated I went right out into the field, I got a job in graphic design. And I think was pretty good at my craft and pretty good at making. And also at the same time pursuing this educational path. I am originally a transplant from Colorado, I guess you could say. And one of the things about the Toledo area is there's this "neh" mentality. It's the rust belt. I- Jolie Sheffer: Better days are behind us. Jenn Stucker: Yeah. [crosstalk 00:09:16]. Yes. It's definitely like, why did you move from Colorado to Toledo? Is usually the question that I get asked. And I'm always like, wow, there's so many great things here. You're four hours from Chicago, you're this far from Toronto, you're this far from here. In Colorado you're four hours from the border of Wyoming, at least where I live. Right? And you're looking at the same topography and you're not getting any cultural change. And so for me, my family was here. My husband and his family. And so I was here for the long haul. Jenn Stucker: So the idea really just became, I need to bloom where I'm planted. I need to make this space and place better, and contribute to it and work towards that. Changing the attitude, how do we create positivity in this community? And so I started getting involved in creating projects that really illuminated Toledo in a positive way. And so then I reflected back on the fact that I wasn't necessarily armed with that as a student, with that understanding of the fact that I had agency and power that I could do something. I didn't necessarily have training with, how do you collaborate and get a, you know, writing a grant to get the funding for this? And who do I need to talk to and who needs to bring this to the table? And all of those things. Jenn Stucker: So part of that I think now is coming to what I do as an educator, is to show those students. I tell them, I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm completely fumbling through this. I don't know what I'm doing. This dots project in Toledo that I'm literally the one that's going to be photographing all the dots around Toledo, or trying to find spaces in January and it's cold. And then actually putting them down on the ground and actually taking them off the ground and doing these sort of things. I don't know that when I'm creating the idea. But I know it has to get done and I'm going to do that. And the fact that I'm just Jenn is what I tell them. I'm just one person, I'm not any different than you. And so I try to give them a lot of power that they can do that thing that they want to make change for. Jolie Sheffer: You're all talking about very place-based design practices, or in different ways your work is all very much about locating yourself, right? And building in relationship to that community, and creating community. Could you give an example, Rick, of one of your projects that had a very Chicago-centric, and how that place shaped the process and the collaborations that you developed? Rick Valicenti: With pleasure. In 2016, I was the artist in residence at Loyola University. And there we devoted an entire year to prototyping empathetic ways of grieving for those who were left behind by gun violence. That was a very Chicago-centric theme. And it was something that I was curious about beyond the candle vigil, right? Or the protest march. Are there other ways we can come together both as community led by design in order to acknowledge and honor the life lost? And of course help the healing process for the families left behind. That was a very place specific design assignment. The difference was we were doing it on the North side, and a lot of the activity, gun violent activity was happening on the South side. Not all of it because in the building that we were located, in the alley right next door one of the students had been shot. Rick Valicenti: Down the street the young photographer had been shot and killed on that street. So as they call it, the franchising of gun violence had migrated North to the Rogers Park and Edgewater area, which is where Loyola is located. It made it more real and more tangible, but the prototyping of these empathetic gestures was, I think, healing for all of us. And I've been rewarded by that project ever since. And I really want to see now if something like that can migrate to other cities. And I've been talking to a few people like, wouldn't El Paso benefit from this kind of intervention? Dayton, Ohio, would they not benefit from it? Jolie Sheffer: And could you talk through what that project actually ended up looking like? Rick Valicenti: I'll give you an example. There were 20 students in the class, half of them were from the fine arts area, half of them were from design related fields. And so they all had different approaches to it. And every class began with somebody from the outside. Rick Valicenti: Okay? And I thought this was important. And Iker knows this model of practice that I use, I call it moving design is what I have named the umbrella. But I'll give you an example of three kinds of people who came to the class. One person we arranged for a car to pick up the head of the emergency room at Stroger, which is the hospital, Cook County hospital. And this guy was picked up in a car, came to our class in his [Ohar 00:14:07] blacks with his red tennis shoes. And it was the day after a very violent weekend. This guy showed up shell shocked. You could just see the trauma in his face. He never made eye contact with the students. He was a young guy, maybe 38 or something, had his head down as he spoke. And that was a moving moment. More for me, I think, than anybody else. Rick Valicenti: But it was like, oh my God, here's a first responder who's there and he told us of some of the things that he had seen that have kept him from sleeping. We also had Emory Douglas, who was the communication director, minister of the Black Panthers. So Emory talked about the use of graphic design to move an agenda. And how an unskilled, unfunded initiative of communication design could migrate into the public through the printed ephemera. And he was there to really rally these students. That was fantastic. And then another woman, her name was Cecelia Williams. Cecelia Williams was 28 years old. She is an activist. She's a mother. And in her 28 years she has lost 29 family and friends to gun violence. The first one was her second grade teacher. She came to the class, again, with her version of PTSD. Moved the students and begged the students to do something. Rick Valicenti: Just something. It was in the form of just write the mothers of one of these victims a sympathy card after you hear the headline. Right? That's a simple thing. Or, gather all your cards and one person just take it to the funeral home and leave it in the basket. Simple moment. If you'd like I could share you an example of one of the projects, how we manifested our work at the end. We had lots of installations and interventions around the area, but one in particular was a community based exercise. I showed them an image of logging in Wisconsin. Tree logging. And those images that we're all familiar with are the felled trees in the shallow water, and the guys are standing on the tree trunks. And I said, it wasn't too much earlier before that picture was taken that those were living organisms, but now they're felled to the ground. And let's just imagine that we use the tree trunk as a symbol of those who are fallen. Rick Valicenti: And we've returned them to their vertical position. So that was the form of it. And then we started to talk about, well what could we put on those and what is the form? Are we going to be having tree trunks, that seems wrong. So we ordered lots of very long and very huge custom mailing tubes from a firm in Chicago called Chicago Mailing Tubes. And they made 24 inch, 18 inch and 12 inch mailing tubes of varying lengths. We had them wrapped in white paper and then the students took the grid of Chicago and wrapped each of those trees with black tape to suggest, not replicate, the grid of the city. And then we invited the community to come. And we had the list of the 760 some victims from the previous year to write their first names in whatever black calligraphy we could, whether it was with a Sharpie or whether it was with a brush pen. Rick Valicenti: And to see the community members come together with the students, honoring everybody with the names. And so, okay, that's one facet of it. And we have all these tubes now, and we put end caps on the tubes and the students started to talk about things that they would like to say. If you had to say something to a mother, to a community, to just reduce the pain of gun violence, what might it sound like? Everyone is a hero. I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. Whatever those messages were. And they typeset them in a black and white type, in all caps in a Gothic typeface on an orange disk. That orange disk had a hole cut in the middle and there was an orange piece of a cord, nylon cord, that we knotted. And that provided now these tree trunk-like forms to be carried. Rick Valicenti: And so there was a procession around town into the quad of the campus until they... Oh, I'm sorry. When the morning started all of the trunks were there in the center of the quad. That's right. Like the felled tree trunks. And then the procession started. And there were prayers read, and some music played, and some dancers from the music school came and they did a performative dance. A kind of celebration and resurrection, if you will. And then we were all invited to grab the chords and walk the trunks back to the alley where this student had been shot in the back, and return them to their vertical position. And there, I don't know, there we just reflected on it. But it was all quite moving. And we had it filmed and photographed and there was the record of it that could carry on. Rick Valicenti: We thought that could live in other places. The alderman, I'm sorry if I'm going on so long, I'm taking up this whole hour. But the alderman, his name is Harry Osterman, he was also invited to come. And he said, you know what, I would like that to be re-installed in my local park. And sure enough we installed it in his park and complete with all of the rides that a kid would have, the seesaw on the slide. A couple weeks later we get a call from alderman Osterman's office saying, it seems that there has been some violence in the park and your display has been vandalized. In fact, it has been destroyed. It has been cut up. It has been sawed. It has been smashed. Rick Valicenti: And I thought immediately, oh my God, the last thing we need is for Loyola to be a headline. And this good intention to be diminished. So we quickly scrambled and we went and we cleaned up the site and we got a chainsaw, we rented a chainsaw and we cut the things up so that we could transport it. And here what had happened was the other gang from the other side of the street was upset that, right, there had been some franchise in some retaliation of a recent shooting and this was the way that they could mark their territory. So there's lots healing that needs to be done, but design was certainly there to put a mirror to it. To make a good intention. And to certainly reveal the scab or the wound. Jolie Sheffer: Iker, can you give us an example of some of your place specific work? Maybe one particular project. You talked last night about the Marina Towers. I don't know if you want to talk about that or feel free to take that in a different direction. Iker: Yeah. Maybe one thing that I think is more important is structurally I think being in Chicago is what has saved my practice. I think a lot of the opportunities of doing self-initiated projects or projects that I was particularly interested are allowed to happen in Chicago because maybe there is not the pressure that there is in New York or any other places. And I think the idea of having space as a designer and an architect to think about things was something that I found very important and very unique to Chicago. Iker: So I think in a way, the way I was trained and the way I practice right now is different because of being in Chicago. And particularly that project of Marina City, I think it's one that it's very specific to the idea of Chicago about how it reflects how I work and how the projects evolve. And taking one icon of the city and really using that for me as a personal interest in understanding not only the building but understanding the architect, the ambitions of the architect. Why that building was so forward thinking when it opened in the early 60s. And then beginning to understand, how do you capture that value? Iker: How do you tell that story to people who are not architects? What are the tools that you have? And in that case I worked with Andreas Larsson, a photographer, to really begin to capture the diversity of the community. And it was a way of saying, you don't have to read plans in sections and elevations or use models to communicate the value of a building. There are other ways that maybe you can engage. And then through that you can learn some of the other things. Iker: And then that was exhibited, and then it has continued in doing then renovations in the building with Ellipsis Architecture. So always in collaboration with someone else. And the idea there is that, how do you celebrate the spacial qualities of the marina architect, but at the same time making it modern so new people can be living there. So it's an interesting project that has been ongoing for 10 years. And it just summarizes my interest in Bertrand Goldberg. And then as you work with other people, as you evolve or you have other skills, you can really begin to communicate that in different ways. And I can see that he's probably not going to be the last renovation or not the last project in some shape or form that I'm going to do about that building and that architect, which I think it's fantastic. Jolie Sheffer: Well there's something really interesting. You said something about this at your talk about how a project never really ends, it just sort of evolves into some new shape. Right? And clearly that work is an example of that notion that you never really have an end point. And your example too, Rick, went that way. That it takes on a new form and it may be not what you intended or what you imagined, but you have to let that life go on. Iker: I think in the end they are like your own personal obsessions. They are your interest, but it's sometimes it's an interest and sometimes it's an obsession. And they are in the back of your mind and then there is something that happens that it comes forward again, you have the opportunity to do it and then he goes back. But there are things that obviously you have a certain attachment. And then you realize that there are a lot of buildings, in this case, that share some of the ambitions because they were built in the same period. And then you can make a comparison or connect it to other experiences in other cities. So something that is very local and particular you can engage in a conversation with something that is happening in other cities. So I find it very particular, I never let go of those interests. It's just they transform and the outcome is very different. Jolie Sheffer: And Jenn, you mentioned the dots project. Could you talk about what that was and how that was very much play specific to Toledo? Jenn Stucker: Absolutely. So the genesis of that project came from the Arts Commission. I'd previously had done a banner project for them collaboratively with my colleague Amy Fiddler. And at the time I was president of AIG Toledo. And they came to us to say, oh we're having the GAS conference, the Glass Art Society is going to be coming. It's an international conference and maybe you could do some banners again. And I thought about that and really wanted to do something different. And one of the things about banners is the passivity that it has. And you have to be looking up, kind of encountering those. And so I've always been fascinated with maps and the "you are here" dot specifically. When I go to museums, when I go to zoos, wherever I'm going, I look for that and it gives me a sense of place. And the idea of sense of place seemed very important here at this time. Jenn Stucker: They were going to have people coming from all over the world. What is our sense of place? What is Toledo? And knowing that I wanted people to discover the city, and hopefully through walking. And how could I branch out into various places? So thinking about this dot of "you are here" and wanting people to discover the city, came up with this idea of three foot circular dots that had artwork on them created by a hundred different artists in Toledo that were site specific to that place. So working with the Arts Commission, what are the signature places in Toledo? The Toledo public library, the San Marcos Taqueria. It could be anywhere within the Toledo area, Point Place. So they helped curate that list. We talked about signature points, reached out to all of those establishments to say, more or less, congratulations, you're going to be part of this project. So that they would know that there was going to be a dot in front of their place. Jenn Stucker: And then having artists participate in creating those dots. And then on the dots was a QR code, and this was 2012, so it was still kind of cool then. And the idea was that you would scan the dot and you could then get the background information about the place in which you were standing. So you would learn about St. Patrick's Cathedral and get more information. And then to also give honor to the artist that they too would have their artist statement and what inspired the artwork that they created. And so one of the things about public art is that oftentimes if it's a sculpture, it's a very place specific, and only if you go to that place. And it's typically usually one artist. And so what I really liked about this project was that it was a hundred different artists that were participating in this. Jenn Stucker: And it was originally developed for outsiders to discover Toledo. The things that happened secondarily to that were amazing, where I was getting emails from people that had read about it in the newspaper. And one couple in particular said, we've read about this, we went out to start looking for these dots. They collected 25 of them and ended up at San Marcos Taqueria, said they had the best tacos they've ever had, had no idea it was even there. And they said they were looking forward to discovering more of their city. And I was like, that's a mic drop kind of moment. It couldn't have been any better than having people really realize the great things that we have in the community. So the byproduct of that was just, like I said, people seeing the great things that were here. Jenn Stucker: I wish I'd partnered with a cell phone company at the time because we had people that are actually buying cell phones. Because really, the iPhone had only come out, what, 2007 or something. So we're not too far to not everybody having a smartphone. There were people that were going out to buy a smart phone so that they could participate in this project. And there was a scavenger hunt component too, so we had an app for it. And the first hundred people to digitally collect 25 dots got a custom silkscreened edition poster. And so people are posting on Facebook and finding this dot and taking their children out. And I don't know, couldn't ask for a better project. Jolie Sheffer: We're going to take a short break. Thank you for listening to the BG Ideas podcast. Speaker 1: If you are passionate about big ideas, consider sponsoring this program. To have your name or organization mentioned here, please contact us at ics@bgsu.edu. Jolie Sheffer: Welcome back. Today I'm talking with Rick Valicenti, Iker Gil, and Jenn Stucker about the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in creative fields. One of the things that you both talked about during your visit was the idea that the form of a given project will change, right? And I think Iker, you put it as something like, what's the story I want to tell and what's going to be the best form to tell that story? So how do you go about, what is part of your process and figuring out that answer to that question of the relationship between form and story? Iker: Yeah, I think that came out about the work and the way we structure MAS Context. And then really the first thing is just framing what the topic that we want to do, and then who should be the voices that need to be part of that issue. And sometimes you realize that you need something that sets the ground and it might be more academic. It might be an essay that really gives the shape to that. And then there are many other elements that can compliment, that can contra, that could take another direction that comes in the form of a short essay. And you need to be very aware. I think that a lot of the work that I do is actually paying attention to what other people are doing in their work. So whenever there is an issue that is coming together, I know I already have in my head what's the work that everybody's doing so I can make those connections. Iker: So it's really understanding how they work, what they are trying to say, what's the shape that it can be. And we've had, in the issues, we have long essays, short essays, photo essays, diagrams, poems. But also the people who write, they don't come from all the academic world. And some of the most interesting articles have come from people who are just residents in a building. And they can tell a story much better than an academic that has talk about housing. And one of the examples is we've done this for 10 years, and then the most read article is about Cabrini–Green, about our resident who grew up there and live there. And we walk with him, with Andreas Larsson actually. And we told him just let's walk around the neighborhood and tell us the stories of what are the meaningful places for you here that you grew up here and your families. Iker: And we just took photographs of that and we made captions of that. And it really was a way for us to understand what it means to leave there. Yes, there are some negative things, but there are many other positive things about Cabrini–Green that they all mask under headlines and other things from other people who have no relationship. So yes, there are many people who write about public housing, about Cabrini–Green, but his point of view and the way to talk about it in a very clear, succinct, and just experiential way of there. It was remarkable and it obviously resonated with the rest of the people because it's still the most read article. And it was in issue three, 10 years ago. Rick Valicenti: We should also keep in mind that Cabrini–Green, if we're talking about form, no longer exists. That building complex has been raised and it's gone. Now it's a Target. Is it not? Iker: Yep. It is. So it's like, when you demolish buildings you just don't demolish the actual building, you demolish the structures, the society, the relationship, everything that is built around that. So the void that it's in the city with the destruction of public housing is not just the building, it's all the fabric, the social fabric that got destroyed. And it's very complicated to regain. And unfortunately nothing really... It's happening at the level that it should be done. Rick Valicenti: And at the time you had an idea that it was going to be demolished or did you not know it was going to be demolished at that time? Iker: I did know that it was going to get demolished. Rick Valicenti: Oh, you did. Okay. But in either case you have left behind through the medium of design and this documentation a real important record of what it was like there at that moment. Iker: Yeah. Because in a way, these stories are not just headlines that once the headline leaves the story leaves. These are people who this is the place where they grew up. Where they live. Where they have their family. And then once the buildings are remove, they have to keep going with their life. They have to do other things. So it is really unfair to just live through headline after headline. The city is a much more complex thing. And I think one of the goals that we tried to do with the journal is really, yes, talk about issues that are important. But that there is a legacy that those things are looked in depth, that someone can go back 40 years later and finding that it's still relevant because there's another situation that contextualizes in a new way. Iker: So this is just a series of thinking that evolves and it grows and builds from each other. But I think there needs to be some, like paying attention to all these issues and build from those rather than be surprised by the latest thing that happens. And then once it goes, it just, oh, it's all sold. Jolie Sheffer: Could you talk, Rick, about your own forays into book work, as you describe it, and why that form made sense for some of those projects? Rick Valicenti: The book format I particularly love, I love its linearity but I also love its ability to be opened at any page. I also love its form, its tactile nature, its ability to change voices and change perceptions as you change the tactile experience when your hand touches a page. Change the paper, change the size of it. All of those things are available tools to find engagement in that which is being communicated and that which is being received. So you know, perhaps as a writer, you're able to capture your thinking in your typing. Jolie Sheffer: Absolutely. I don't know what I'm thinking until I'm typing it. Rick Valicenti: That's right. Until after maybe you've read it and say, oh my God, that's really special. But the designer takes that source material, if you will, and either amplifies it or adds harmony to it in a harmonic sound, or adds depth to it, or adds another perspective. And so I'm keenly aware when I'm making a book that it's not a typesetting assignment, that it really is a duet at the most basic level with the content. Whether it's with the author, whether it's with a photographer, whether it's with both. And how can you bring something to life in a way that under different hands or different perspectives or different budgets or whatever, it would sound different. Rick Valicenti: And just like you can do that when you're reading a poem, or a kid reading a kid's book, you know it sounds different than the parent. It happens when people perform songs, other than the person who wrote the song. So I like the book form, but I really like its linearity. And I must admit, when non-linearity was all the rage with interactive media, I was like, what's that about here? What's happening? I'm getting used to it, but that doesn't mean I need to like it. Jolie Sheffer: What about you Jenn? You've published work in book form. What for you is your particular process in thinking about that as a medium? Jenn Stucker: Well most of the publications, I guess probably been a little bit similar, it's been mostly for documentation that this happening happened has been a big part of that. The other part is most of the work has been with recent alums or with students, and so there's something about creating the object that adds that secondary level of, I guess, accomplishment, right? Or achievement, or that this thing... I guess the same thing is it happened. And so if we have evidence of that. I taught at SACI in Florence, Italy, through our program here at BGSU, last summer and we self published a book out of that called the FLRX times 14. Or 14 of us and putting material together to sort of, what was our experience here in Florence? All being American citizens coming into this place and space. And I don't see those students again. Right? They were from University of Michigan, Penn State, Parsons, couple from BGSU, Marshall. And it was a nice moment to capture and make a capsule, I guess, of that experience. Jolie Sheffer: Well, I want to thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me. It has been a real delight. Our producers for this podcast are Chris Covera and Marco Mendoza with help from Aaron Dufala, Hannah Santiago and Kaleah Ivory. Research assistants for this podcast was provided by ICS undergraduate intern Tay Sauer. This conversation was recorded in the Stanton audio recording studio in the Michael and Sara Kuhlin Center at Bowling Green State University.  

Ellen Bensky and Steve Nonis, CEO, CFO and Principals at Turner Fleischer Architects, as well as Senior Designer/Technologist andDigital Practice Lead Nebojsa Milutinovic and Kristian Pal join us on this episode 174 of Art of Construction. On this third and final episode of our series on real-time rendering and virtual reality brought to you by Enscape, Devon and Matt spoke with the team over at Turner Fleischer Architects in Toronto, Canada. We previously featured Ellen and Steve of TF on AOC Show 159: A Dedicated Approach to R&D and Office Management. This time, the principals were joined by leaders of their digital team, a team that at Turner Fleischer plays a huge role in the everyday practices of their company. Last time we featured Turner Fleischer we spoke at length about their company's dedicated approach to research and development and why they continuously seek out new technology to improve their practice and deliver a better product to their clients. During these sessions of research and trying out different technologies, TF's digital team landed on Enscape as a real-time rendering software that truly had the potential to elevate their business to higher levels of productivity, better coordination with their clients and ultimately better designs. Now, Enscape is an everyday tool in their company, used not only by their design teams but also by other employees who attend their internal trainings known as TF Academy. The TF Academy is an in-house teaching series that invites all of their employees to participate in learning sessions on new technology and design practices. During our conversation, their team reflected on how easily accessible Enscape is for new users in these sessions; even to employees who may not be as skilled at technology. TF's digital team is able to easily train coworkers, their clients, and even other trades on the job how to easily use this tool to better inspect, work and collaborate on their projects. Ultimately, Enscape allows all of us in the AEC community to work together more effectively and use the power of new technology to the fullest. The instant rendering of BIM models that Enscape allows, and the ability to walk through these lifelike renderings in virtual reality and see and feel design decisions in real-time is steadily bringing our industry to new heights. We at Art of Construction are huge fans, and we encourage all of you, AOC Tribe to take some initiative and figure out how you can use Enscape to help grow your businesses today!

The new Delta Dental of Minnesota Operations Center in Bemidji provides a modern, open workspace for 150 employees. The final product is beautiful, but it was far from easy. Tamera Robinson, CFO of Delta Dental of Minnesota; Nate Enger, VP at ESG Architects; and Matt Stringfellow, Mechanical and Electrical Systems Manager at Kraus-Anderson join Mary and Tom to discuss the complex project. A tight schedule, firm budget, and complex owner needs led to some innovative solutions that turned an ordinary call center into a beautiful, amenity-rich workspace for Bemidji employees. 

In this first full episode of Antipod we turn our attention to Black Geographies, the theme of our first season. Hosts Brian Williams and Akira Drake Rodriguez walk listeners through a series of clips from a panel on Clyde Woods’s posthomously published work Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations of Post-Katrina New Orleans, edited by Jordan T. Camp and Laura Pulido (University of Georgia Press, 2017). Brian and Akira comment on the use of Woods’s “blues epistemology” framework to contextualize the ongoing making and re-making of Black geographies in New Orleans. Covering themes from dispossession to displacement to the fallacy of “natural” disasters, this episode challenges traditional notions of urban planning and privileges what Woods’s calls “the visions of the dispossessed.” Clips from this episode are from an “Author Meets Critics” panel at the Community Book Center in New Orleans’s Seventh Ward, a space of continuity for pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans residents. The participants in the discussion were: former Woods student and activist-poet Sunni Patterson; Khalil Shahid, Senior Policy Advocate at the National Resource Defense Council; Anna Brand, Asst. Prof at the University of California at Berkeley; Shana Griffin from Jane’s Place, New Orleans’ first community land trust; Sue Mobley, who, at the time of the panel, was the Public Programs Manager for the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design at Tulane University; and Jordan T. Camp (editor) who at the time of the panel was at Barnard College, and is now the Director of Research at the People’s Forum in New York.

Welcome to Episode 4 of The design discussion show. 3 more papers that explore "Research in Design" If you are liking what you hear, please subscribe to this podcast. See you in the next episode. Byeee! Paper 1 -. Amanda Swearngin, Mira Dontcheva, Wilmot Li, Joel Brandt, Morgan Dixon, and Andrew J Ko. 2018. Rewire: Interface Design Assistance from Examples. Proc. of CHI: 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174078 Paper 2 - Martin Porcheron, Joel E. Fischer, Stuart Reeves, and Sarah Sharples. 2018. Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life. 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174214 Paper 3 - Bettina Nissen. 2018. GeoCoin : Supporting Ideation and Collaborative Design with Smart Contracts. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI’18: 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173737 You can find us here : twitter.com/design_discuss instagram.com/design_discuss

We're back! After taking care of the Global Virtual Design Sprint, the Dallas Design Sprints podcast is back on our normal weekly schedule. For our re-debut, we're featuring Iain Thackrah. He's the Design Director for Collaborative Design Company and a Product + Growth Lead at Agility Scales. He lives and works out of Leeds, United Kingdom Listen to this podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2C4yBHC We get into his background on education and how he utilized visible learning to change the way others approached education. We also cover growth design, his own company, and what he has planned in the future. Hope you enjoy the show! ----- Learn more about Iain: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iain-thackrah-316169138/ Company: https://collaborativedesignco.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collaborativedesignco/ ----- If you have any questions or comments about the podcast, please send them in to robert@dallasdesignsprints.com. Thanks for listening! ----- You can listen to the Dallas Design Sprints podcast all over the web: iTunes: https://apple.co/2C4yBHC Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2EfIMus YouTube: https://youtu.be/GC9gUPTkCTo Overcast: http://bit.ly/2SIZhTN Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/p77y --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/designsprints/message

Special Guest: Cheri Torres, Lead Catalyst (CEO) of Collaborative Design and Jackie Stavros, Professor at Lawrence Technological University Communication has remained in the list of top five issues for relationships and organisations for years. Cheri and Jackie suggest it’s because we’re not having conversations worth having. Success and failure are fueled by conversations: the ones we have with ourselves and the ones we have with others. Yet we seldom stop to think about the power and impact our words have on us, much less think carefully about using words that support well-being and success. This interview is with two internationally recognised authorities on engaging in conversations that fuel productivity and meaningful engagement—yours and others—in order to intentionally foster flourishing. Their best-selling book, Conversations Worth Having, is an easy read and provides many examples of how to use two simple practices to change your life and support success. These practices derive from Appreciative Inquiry, one of the most effective approaches for fostering positive organisational change. Join us to gain an understanding of how words and conversations impact your well-being and ability to be successful. Learn how you can easily shift the tone and direction of your conversations, even in the most difficult of situations. Host: Jo Dodds And here is an interview that Cheri and Jackie did with Forbes

This week, John Sullivan of Enterprise Community Partners and Rashidah Williams from the Tulane Small Center for Collaborative Design stopped by to talk with Kenny and MarkAlain about Undesign The Redline, an interactive exhibit exploring the history of race, class and U.S. housing policy, and how this legacy of inequity and exclusion continues to shape our communities. Visitors to Undesign the Redline are left with a strong impression of the historical forces that made New Orleans and other cities the way they are now. The exhibit is on display at the Small Center until April 1. It is powerful, moving and incredible - make sure you check it out!

Welcome Back Faithful Listeners! We've invited a couple of real social justice warriors on the show this week! Sue Mobley might be the busiest person I know. Her primary hustle is Public Programs Manager at Tulane University's Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design, which works, “with community-based organizations to provide design services for constituencies who are underserved by the architecture and design professions.” In addition to that mouthful of a job title, Sue works with Paper Monuments, WWOZ, the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans, and St. Claude Main Street, among others. Our second guest, Corinna Yazbek, is the Senior Associate for Strategic Partnerships at the Vera Institute of Justice, where she explores, “the intersections of economic justice, mass incarceration, and reproductive justice.” Corinna's recent work has been on the criminalization of sex work, so she's been involved locally in fighting the state and local crackdown on stripclubs, which we discussed a few weeks ago on the episode “What's Your Real Job”. We had a great, wide ranging conversation that touched on a lot of topics. Street protests, the ethics of tip-based-income systems, using of “social justice warrior” as a pejorative, and so much more. It's a long one, but worth the trip, so strap in and enjoy! -Cole

Collaborative design for data driven projects. by UX Australia

Dr. Drew Williams started teaching in Las Vegas and ended up as the principal of Tuacahn High School in Southern Utah, where he shares a facility with Tuacahn Center for the ArtsCreativity, Inc. A work or a text to land on so that it wasn’t personal. Lots of work to come up with core values of Collaborative Design, candid feedback, original work. Grading policies, attendance policies. Changes need to be based on evidence. Core values help us say no. Radical candor. Challenges in creating core values. Comfort in being comfortable. Disrupted status quo. Conversations that require a keen intellect to navigate. Awoke in our faculty a feeling of learning. Why Tuacahn? It’s through the uncertainty that you can drive to the question of why. Dropping a class because it doesn’t align to our core values. How to be a transformative Principal? Never stop learning. Go out of your box and seek learning.   Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life! Join my group coaching program Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher.  Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show. Buy Communication Cards Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal.   Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey  

Dr. Drew Williams started teaching in Las Vegas and ended up as the principal of Tuacahn High School in Southern Utah, where he shares a facility with Tuacahn Center for the Arts First High School charter in the state of Utah - focused on the performing arts. Working to partner more with the Center for the Arts. Talking times - actors and actresses talking about their experience become actors and actresses. Professional actors asking, “How can we connect and teach classes? Compliance vs. deeper learning. Idea of moving past compliance and on task Idea of being joyful and passionate. When doing auditions can bring working professionals in to participate as well. Teachers are working outside of the classroom on their own careers to Collaborative Design, candid feedback, original work. Trevor McKinsey - Dive into inquiry Math exists in Art, dance, etc. Middle is messy, but it is where the magic happens. Everything is not defined. Don’t give out rules and such. Ask kids what they are curious about. Be mean until December doesn’t really cut it anymore. Belief that education does need to change. Kids are excited to be here. Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life! Join my group coaching program Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher.  Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show. Buy Communication Cards Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal.   Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey

Today Dorothy sits down with Abby Phillips of Memphis Fashion Design Network.  Abby fills us in on how she created Memphis Fashion Week, which hosts well known fashion designers as well as emerging designers.   Abby has grown this nonprofit into a flourishing thriving success.  Memphis Fashion Design Network now encompasses a collaborative design studio, The Lab, and education certification courses at Memphis College of Art. "We knew right away that we had to keep doing it.  I don't feel like I built it, I feel like we kept following what people were wanting.  It was the opposite of 'if you build it they will come.'  It was like, they're coming, we better get this done!" - Abby Phillips  "I think that's a big thing as well...committing yourself to being 100% present for what you're working on, whether that a mom, or work, or whatever it may be." - Abby Phillips Follow Memphis Fashion Design Network here: http://www.memphisfashiondesignnetwork.com/ http://www.memphisfashionweek.org/ Follow Positively Creative here: www.positivelycreative.net www.instagram.com/positivelycreativepodcast On Today's Show: (3:00) Abby's background with theater, film, & casting (5:30) Casting models for Nashville Fashion Week (6:00) The birth of Memphis Fashion Weekend (9:00) Pavo, Meosha, Jack Robinson Gallery, A. Schwab , Joseph's, Kittie Kyle (14:00) On building the education platform for designers with Memphis College of Art (17:00) Tara Skelley (18:30) AAUW & certificate program for designers (20:30) Emerging Memphis Designer (22:00) On getting big names for the fashion shows (25:00) Annie Griffin, freeze models, runway shows, Monte, Shela Jay Design, Tiena, This is Sloane, Nicole Miller (27:00) The Lab , The pop up shop, and all of the resources offered with membership to The Lab (35:00) trunk shows (36:00) Tiena Gwin, Belk Southern Designer (37:00) The future of Memphis Fashion Design Network  (41:00) Events during Memphis Fashion Week (44:00) Emily Harvey of EmKat Design (46:00) Abby's mother, first female board President of Boys & Girls Clubs Memphis (47:00) Junior League of Memphis, Memphis Ad Fed Board, Leadership Memphis (48:00) on being a working mom  (53:00) How I Built This, Ted Talks, Freakonomics, Emily Wapnick Multipotentialite , The Limit Does Not Exist (56:00) Living LeReve , Style by LD, Pretty in Pink Megan   

In this episode, Kate and Laura fight about what it means to design things collaboratively and the ways in which everybody seems to screw it up. Hint: collaborative design does not mean everybody makes every single decision together! This is not a democracy, people.  Drink Pairing: Sidecar

MFA CD Lecture: Christopher Phillips The MFA in Collaborative Design present Christopher Phillips as part of the 2012-2013 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series. The United States needs constitutional change, but how to get it done? Christopher Phillips has the right answer. Get Americans talking to Americans about how we can improve our nation. Phillips has combined the approach of Socrates and the wisdom of Jefferson to show us the way. To this end, Phillips has inaugurated Constitution Café and Socrates Café dialogue groups, and is the founder of the nonprofit Democracy Cafe. You can also read 3 Questions with Christopher Phillips. Download

Katie sits down with Sarah Sides, Noonday’s design associate, to talk all things collaborative design! What does collaborative design mean? Why is it important? How can you spot it in Noonday’s pieces? Take a listen and be inspired by this important component of our design relationship.

CliffCentral.com — What is Collaborative Design? The team discuss it with special guest Elli-Nicole Shoes… plus the usual weekly features to keep you up to date with the wonderful world of fashion!

2014 PNCA Commencement Spencer Beebe, Chair of Ecotrust’s Board of Directors, delivers the 2014 Commencement Address at the May 25 celebration for the graduating class of 2014, with students in PNCA’s undergraduate Studio Arts, Media Arts, and Design Arts programs and three of the graduate programs of PNCA’s Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies: MFA in Visual Studies, MFA in Collaborative Design, and MFA in Applied Craft and Design. Download

James Macanufo is a co-author of Gamestorming and a thought-leader in facilitation and interaction design. He teaches, consults and tinkers on projects. UX-radio talks with him about his presentation at this year’s IA Summit in Baltimore, the Collaborative Design of Smart Things.

Abstract The motivation behind the interdisciplinary research project "Collaborative Design Platform" (CDP) is to resolve the current discrepancy between analogue ways of working in the early urban design stages and the ever-increasing use of digital tools in office pratice. By directly linking familiar, analogue ways of working with digital computer aided design tools, the CDP represents a working environment that allows designers to work the way that they are used to, while making use of the potential of computers. The platform creates a direct connection between physical volumetric models and interactive digital content using a large-format multi-touch table as a work surface combined with real-time 3D scanning. Combining the 3D data from the scanned model with the 3D digital GIS environment model makes it possible to computer design relevant simulations and analyses. These are displayed in real-time on the working model to help architects assess and substantiate their design decisions. Biography Frank Petzold's research and teaching activities cover the entire spectrum of IT-supported architectural design and planning. He has contributed more than 50 papers and articles to conferences and professional journals. As part of the Collaborative Research Centre project, "Materials and constructions for the renovation of building structures", funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation), he examined architectural design in existing built contexts and the structured capture of data for building information modelling (BIM). In the DFG-funded "AR Cave - projection-based technology for on-site surveying, visualisation and simulation" research project, augmented reality methods were employed for working directly within existing built contexts. The "KREMLAS - Development of a creative evolutionary design method for layout problems in architecture and urban design" research project (also funded by the DFG) examines approaches for assessing solutions produced using evolutionary methods.

The First Show on The Architects Corner explores the importance of collaboration in design. Segments CRS Doing It Right: Team Architecture Plus Pool: Designers and Engineers Together Guest: This weeks guest was Eduardo Barata of Urban Future Organization Sydney.http://www.au-urbanfuture.org/ Tracklist: X-Fire - The Bens Fall Boys Creek Choir - Bon Iver and James Blake The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes - Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve One Fast Move or I'm Gone - Ben GIbbard and Jay Farrar Stronger - Kanye West/Pharell/Lupe Fiasco (Team 20/20)

Kelley chats with designers Kerin and Nina about working jointly on knitting patterns.