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A podcast by SYPartners about designing a future that’s made for all of us—and the best in us. Design, at its heart, is an act of service. It’s the work of solving problems for the benefit of others. But the world’s most complex challenges require something more comprehensive than our existing design frameworks. Climate change, migration, food distribution. The future of work and education. Bigotry, tribalism, and inequality. How do we design for problems that exist on a global scale? Proble ...
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Through conversations on Designing for Humanity, and her work at SYPartners, host Rie Norregaard has been trying to discern what might be required for a new design framework that can address increasingly complex and systemic challenges. In this episode, the tables are turned. As the episode guest, Rie shares how her own thinking about design has ev…
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Advocating for inclusivity through art and conversation, with Shannon Finnegan & Sugandha Gupta
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Artists and makers Shannon Finnegan and Sugandha Gupta pull inspiration from personal experiences to provoke conversation and insights through their work—about activism, inclusivity, and the experience of enjoying art itself.In this episode, Sugandha and Shannon discuss the possible shortcomings—and inadvertent exclusivity—of existing design framew…
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Imagine an alien planet, or a dystopian society. What does it look like, sound like, or feel like? These are the questions that Marti Romances seeks to answer when he brings creative visions to life in blockbuster movies. In this episode, Marti explains the collaborative process between directors and designers to create believable futures that don’…
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As the co-director of the *Stanford d.school K12 Lab*, Laura McBain is exploring how to disrupt inequity in the classroom and unleash creative confidence in educators. In this episode, Laura walks us through how she applies design to re-imagine everything from common core assessments to safe spaces, among other challenges facing our American educat…
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What happens when you take inspiration from Disney Imagineers and apply it to disaster relief and humanitarian crises? Find out from Gabby Almon, who’s bringing together creatives and government teams to collaborate in hopeful new ways around challenges such as extremism and refugee migration. "We are in new times,” Gabby says, "We need to complete…
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“Inclusion has risen to the top of many organizations, but what to do next is still unclear.” In this episode, Kat Holmes opens our eyes to bias and exclusion in the design process of everyday objects and technologies, and introduces a new hypothesis for how to break the cycle.Kat is a pioneer of inclusive design, previously at Microsoft and curren…
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“As a society, we look at accessibility as something which is ugly, but my question is, ‘Why don’t we look at it as an opportunity for innovation and creativity?’” Writer, activist, and fashion enthusiast, Sinéad Burke gives us a unique glimpse into her life with achondroplasia and the fascinating places it has taken her—from TED to Davos to Burber…
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