Podcast appearances and mentions of john thackara

John Thackara is one of the brilliant irregulars exploring how humankind can make the transition to a climate-friendly, relocalized, post-capitalist world. A Brit with extensive academic and journalistic background in design, Thackara is an independent writer, activist and thinker who is probing the idea of "designing for life." For him, this means elevating the many brave local projects that are pioneering new eco-friendly, socially constructive ways of living while critiquing corporate greenwashing ploys like "net-zero" and "sustainability reporting," and the financialization of nature.

With Gavin Van Horn & John Thackara.How can people living in urban settings engage with a teeming animal world – right on their doorsteps? Can we design cities from the perspective and the lifeworlds of other species? And by the way, where does the city even begin? How can animals disrupt our associations of what cities are? Gavin Van Horn is the Executive Editor of the Center for Humans and Nature Press, and is the author of City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness and The Way of Coyote. His story teaches a potent medicine for urban alienation, by honing our awareness to species like coyotes, robins, pollinators, and degraded urban forests. We talk about everyday intimacies, wild mutual gazes, the resplendence of pigeon feathers and examples of mutual healing when people repair urban lands and make nature whole. John Thackara, writer, curator and professor, develops design agendas for ecological restoration, urban-rural reconnection, and multi-species environments. He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years, and was commissioner of the UK Social Innovation Biennial and the Urban-Rural Expo in Shanghai. John's expertise lies in the realm of futures design and next economies, and in our chat he shares compelling examples of urban rural reconnection, such as designers experimenting with microbial lives, the viral phenomenon of weed watching, celebrity farmers in china, and placefulness as a doorway into caring.Episode Website LinkShow Links:John's website Design for Multi Species Cities Back to the Land Summer School Urban Rural Connection in ChinaGavin's website The Way of the Coyote BookKinship: Belonging in a World of RelationsGreencorps of ChicagoChicago WildernessBeing Salmon, Being HumanLook out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.Photo Credit: Jason Klassi via Getty ImagesMusic: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd & The Rising by Tryad CCPL Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Thackara is a writer, curator and professor who develops design agendas for ecological restoration, urban-rural reconnection, and multi-species design.He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years, first in Amsterdam and later across India; he was commissioner of the UK social innovation biennial Dott 07, and the French design biennial City Eco Lab; and in 2019, he curated the Urban-Rural expo in Shanghai. His last book was How To Thrive In the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today.Here we discuss...Why more information about the climate crisis just won't cut it anymoreHow designers can experiment with the presence of microbial lives in their citiesThe phenomenon of weed watching and why it's gone viralCelebrity hen and mango farmers in China who have broken down the rural-urban dividePlacefulness as a doorway into caringHow a giant consulting firm could better design their employee sustainability programme (hint: it involves having real tasks to do)Ecosystem restoration camps and place-based summer schoolsThe failings of snazzy car insulation made from myceliumAnd more ;)Episode Website LinkShow Links:John's website Design for Multi Species Cities Regenerative Empathy Paper Sugi ProjectBack to the Land Summer School Urban Rural Connection in China Internet of natureLook out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.Photo Credit: Jason Klassi via Getty ImagesMusic: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Enjoy our content? Support This is HCD by becoming a Premium Member The Big Remote is a podcast of people's remote stories, collaboration tips, remote life hacks, tips on entertaining yourself and your kids, personal stories and more, hosted by Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion. In this episode, Gerry Scullion speaks with the wonderful, John Thackara. In this episode, they speak about eating soil, discussing its connectedness to everything, composting and worm zoos and also how the pandemic has affected John and his work now - and in the future. This is a fantastic conversation with one of Gerry's favourite people and guests on This is HCD. Show Links https://twitter.com/johnthackara https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Thrive-Next-Economy-Designing/dp/0500518084 http://thackara.com/ http://thackara.com/working-with-john-thackara/ If you have a story, get in touch or hit us up on Twitter.  This is HCD Podcast Network EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion ProdPod with Adrienne Tan Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion Power of Ten with Andy Polaine NEW: The Big Remote with Gerry Scullion and Andy Polaine NEW: Moments of Change with Melanie Rayment Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran NEW: World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern NEW: Global Jams Podcast with Adam Lawrence and Markus Hormess Connect with This is HCD Follow This is HCD us on Twitter Follow This is HCD on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter (we have lots of design giveaways!) Join the practitioner community on This is HCD Slack Channel Read articles on our This is HCD Network on Medium Support the show.

In this episode, I caught up with a great friend of the podcast, Andy Polaine. Most of you will probably be familiar with Andy's work with Fjord and also as co-author of Service Design - from Insights to implementation on Rosenfeld Media, a book that has become one of the defining service design books over the last number of years. I was hosting Service design Days in Barcelona this year and had lots of fun meeting the European service design community. It was a jam-packed few days for me but managed to capture some great conversations that all followed a similar theme to what myself and John Thackara covered in his episode recently, and that is, we need to consider not only what we produce but how we actually produce it. Andy's keynote was fantastic and had some wonderful metaphors about how we have lost some of the natural cadence and craft through new work please like Agile and Lean. Christmas giveaways  Also before I jump in I want to let you all know I'm working on creating a very very special newsletter for Christmas with lots of the world's best book companies and authors, so if you're not in the podcast newsletter, you should sign up for our newsletter. This Christmas newsletter will include discounts and giveaways, just in time for those Christmas stocking fillers. Right, let's get into the episode. Links from this episode Andy's slides from Service Design Days, Barcelona Connect with Andy on @Apolaine on Twitter, his website at polaine.com, via Fjords website at Fjordnet.com  Read the transcript of this episode at thisisHCD.com Buy Andy's book that he co-authored 'Service Design - From Insight to Implementation' This is HCD is brought to you by Humana Design Follow This is HCD us on Twitter Follow This is HCD on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter Join the This is HCD Slack Channel Follow us on Medium   Support the show.

In this episode, I caught up with a great friend of the podcast, Andy Polaine. Most of you will probably be familiar with Andy's work with Fjord and also as co-author of Service Design - from Insights to implementation on Rosenfeld Media, a book that has become one of the defining service design books over the last number of years. I was hosting Service design Days in Barcelona this year and had lots of fun meeting the European service design community. It was a jam-packed few days for me but managed to capture some great conversations that all followed a similar theme to what myself and John Thackara covered in his episode recently, and that is, we need to consider not only what we produce but how we actually produce it. Andy's keynote was fantastic and had some wonderful metaphors about how we have lost some of the natural cadence and craft through new work please like Agile and Lean. Christmas giveaways  Also before I jump in I want to let you all know I'm working on creating a very very special newsletter for Christmas with lots of the world's best book companies and authors, so if you're not in the podcast newsletter, you should sign up for our newsletter. This Christmas newsletter will include discounts and giveaways, just in time for those Christmas stocking fillers. Right, let's get into the episode. Links from this episode Andy's slides from Service Design Days, Barcelona Connect with Andy on @Apolaine on Twitter, his website at polaine.com, via Fjords website at Fjordnet.com  Read the transcript of this episode at thisisHCD.com Buy Andy's book that he co-authored 'Service Design - From Insight to Implementation' This is HCD is brought to you by Humana Design Follow This is HCD us on Twitter Follow This is HCD on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter Join the This is HCD Slack Channel Follow us on Medium   Support the show.

In this episode, I caught up with a great friend of the podcast, Andy Polaine. Most of you will probably be familiar with Andy's work with Fjord and also as co-author of Service Design - from Insights to implementation on Rosenfeld Media, a book that has become one of the defining service design books over the last number of years. I was hosting Service design Days in Barcelona this year and had lots of fun meeting the European service design community. It was a jam-packed few days for me but managed to capture some great conversations that all followed a similar theme to what myself and John Thackara covered in his episode recently, and that is, we need to consider not only what we produce but how we actually produce it. Andy's keynote was fantastic and had some wonderful metaphors about how we have lost some of the natural cadence and craft through new work please like Agile and Lean. Christmas giveaways  Also before I jump in I want to let you all know I'm working on creating a very very special newsletter for Christmas with lots of the world's best book companies and authors, so if you're not in the podcast newsletter, you should sign up for our newsletter. This Christmas newsletter will include discounts and giveaways, just in time for those Christmas stocking fillers. Right, let's get into the episode. Links from this episode Andy's slides from Service Design Days, Barcelona Connect with Andy on @Apolaine on Twitter, his website at polaine.com, via Fjords website at Fjordnet.com  Read the transcript of this episode at thisisHCD.com Buy Andy's book that he co-authored 'Service Design - From Insight to Implementation' This is HCD is brought to you by Humana Design Follow This is HCD us on Twitter Follow This is HCD on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter Join the This is HCD Slack Channel Follow us on Medium   Become a Premium Member: https://thisishcdnetwork.supercast.tech See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Hello and welcome to another episode of This is HCD. My name is Gerry Scullion and I'm a human centered design practitioner based in Dublin, Ireland, and this week I caught up with one of my design heroes, John Thackara whilst I was hosting the incredible Service Design Days conference in Barcelona recently. I was so happy to speak to John, having read much of his work for such a long time and currently reading his latest fantastic book 'How to thrive in the next economy' a book that has led to the Wall Street Journal to call John 'cutting edge design expert' or even the Great Bill Moggridge stating 'whatever you're designing, keep this book next to you know'. Signed book giveaway Now, I'm lucky to say I have a signed copy of this book in my hands right now to giveaway, so be in with a chance all you need to do is go over request to join the slack channel on thisishcd.com where I'll be giving the book away inside the channel this Friday at noon GMT. In this episode we discussed John's work at great detail, his keynote at Service Design Days, and spoke about the greater purpose of design and maybe even human centered design isn't broad enough as it should include animals and the greatest resource of them all, the earth. Now this episode is definitely one of those where you want to listen and then repeat. Buy 'How to thrive in the next economy' Visit Johns website thackara.com Follow John on Twitter This is HCD is brought to you by Humana Design Follow us on Twitter Follow on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter Join our Slack Channel Follow us on Medium     Support the show.

John Thackara is a writer, speaker and design producer, and director of Doors of Perception. In addition to this blog, he is the author of twelve books including In The Bubble: Designing In A Complex World and Wouldn't It Be Great If….

A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews John Thackara, author of "In The Bubble." For more information, please go to http://hearsayculture.com.