From the Archive: Designing in Nature’s Image

Episode 086 • 45 min

What is the designer’s role in the climate crisis?

At Climate Designers, Sarah Harrison and her team use their creative skills for climate action and ask the question, “What if every designer were a climate designer?” In this week’s episode, we chat about how designers of all kinds can take climate action. Sam is joined by Sarah Harrison, Co-Founder of Climate Designers and The Determined. Sarah shares how she came to found Climate Designers with Marc O’Brien and the role of design in creating real climate action. Later on in the show, they are joined by Bobby Gill, Director of Development and Communications at Savory Institute, which uses holistic management to facilitate the large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands and the livelihoods of their inhabitants. Together, they talk about why it is important to regenerate the world’s grasslands and how the Savory Institute uses Holistic Management. 

Weekly Dose of Good Design

• Sam: Papa Bear Slippers
• Sarah: Cashmere Pants

Links:

• CoDesign Collaborative Event: CoDesign Collaborative Week
• Resource: Overview Effect
• Resource: It’s not the cow, it’s the how

City Planning: A Conversation with Urban3 and unPlanned

Episode 92 • 45 min

What does it mean to design better city planning and what does that look like?

On this week’s episode, we learn about how cities have been designed. Sam is joined by Joe Minicozzi, the Principal of Urban3 and an urban planner imagining new ways to think about and visualize land use, urban design, and economics. Joe talks about the way cities have and have not been designed and the tax implications of city design. Later on in the show, they are joined by Sam Seidel, host of unPlanned, a video podcast about cities and how they work. Together, they talk about how cities have changed since Covid and what Sam has gleaned from his show “unPlanned.”

Weekly Dose of Good Design

• Sam: Good Strategy Bad Strategy
• Joe: Building a patio and Asheville, NC

Links:

• CoDesign Collaborative Event: CoDesign Collaborative Week
• Kickstarter: Support our New Book on Kickstarter
• Resource: Join Urban 3’s Decoder Seminar
• Resource: unPlanned YouTube channel

Designing in Nature’s Image

Episode 086 • 45 min

What is the designer’s role in the climate crisis?

At Climate Designers, Sarah Harrison and her team use their creative skills for climate action and ask the question, “What if every designer were a climate designer?” In this week’s episode, we chat about how designers of all kinds can take climate action. Sam is joined by Sarah Harrison, Co-Founder of Climate Designers and The Determined. Sarah shares how she came to found Climate Designers with Marc O’Brien and the role of design in creating real climate action. Later on in the show, they are joined by Bobby Gill, Director of Development and Communications at Savory Institute, which uses holistic management to facilitate the large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands and the livelihoods of their inhabitants. Together, they talk about why it is important to regenerate the world’s grasslands and how the Savory Institute uses Holistic Management. 

Weekly Dose of Good Design

• Sam: Papa Bear Slippers
• Sarah: Cashmere Pants

Links:

• CoDesign Collaborative Event: CoDesign Collaborative Week
• Resource: Overview Effect
• Resource: It’s not the cow, it’s the how

Common Space for the People, by the People

Episode 082 • 42 min

How can design rethink the common space to serve the common good?

In this week’s episode, we learn about designing common spaces for the common good. Sam is joined by Ron Mallis, Executive Director of BostonAPP/Lab, which serves as an incubator for new artistic collaborations throughout Greater Boston’s public spaces. CommonSpace/CommonGood is an initiative developed by BostonAPP/Lab in collaboration with Hoverlay, and with inputs and recommendations from Operation P.E.A.C.E. and the Fenway Community Center. Ron talks about his work and seeking ways to build on the voices of neighborhood residents to conceive, design, and implement art for a neighborhood. Later on in the show, they are joined by Daniel Callahan, multimedia artist, designer, and president of Roxbury Cultural District. Together, they discuss how they view the role of public art to transform the ways in which people use and think about public space.

Weekly Dose of Good Design

• This week’s Weekly Dose comes from our Director of Operations, Rachel Boesenberg: Designing Motherhood
• Ron: Ragnar Kjartansson

 Links:

• CoDesign Collaborative Event: 2022 Annual Meeting
• Resource: ​​Daniel Callahan’s work
• Resource: Nubian Nights
• Place: Arnold Arboretum