ONEder Podcast

Meet Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream, where tempting flavors and social responsibility thrive. Spend 30 minutes with founder and socially conscious business advocate Molly Moon, and learn how she created a hardworking, happy staff, strong local partnerships, and sustainable practices to deliver the best ice cream made with the finest ingredients. It’s salty and sweet, and you will enjoy every minu...

Cultural anthropologist Melissa Fisher Ph. D. shares with us the significance of anthropology in assessing the evolving landscape of hybrid work environments to empower workplace design. As our community witnesses unprecedented shifts in how, where and by whom work is conducted, understanding the social and cultural dimensions of these changes becomes paramount. Melissa shares her research and exp...

Ever wonder how new K-12 schools get funded, planned, built, and operated? There’s a lot more involved than just teachers, students and the PTA, and Jennifer Gibb from Van Pelt Construction Services explains many of the challenges and opportunities facing our communities when building for our future. Tune in to this conversation for a deeper dive into the state of K-12 school infrastructure and le...

Can there be design without community? Can complex social and design challenges be solved independently? How might true curiosity, conversation, relationship connection, and social justice values advance the work of any organization? If questions like these resonate, you need to meet Sloan Leo. The possibility, honesty, joy, and creativity shared in our conversation with the committed and brillian...

What drives a design career? Obviously, designers have many different paths to choose, and we invite you to spend this Oneder Podcast with us and Yana Ronin, hearing her personal journey. A designer, strategist, community builder, entrepreneur, world citizen and lifelong learner, Yana details the first half of her career and hints at what else the future may hold. Enjoy the story, her insights and...

As the cost of housing development continues to increase across the Bay Area, the homeless community also continues to grow. Additional pressure from the pandemic has only amplified the need. Dr. Brian Greenberg from Life Moves, a non-profit providing interim housing and supportive services for homeless families and individuals, shares his observations on the immediate need to scale these services...

There’s a growing mental health crisis in the US, and a growing need for behavioral health resources. Listen in to this fact and experience filled conversation with a provider, Charity Holmes from the University of Washington Behavioral Health Services and a behavioral health designer/planner, Lori Epler from SRG Partnership. Learn with us more about their challenges, their successes and their hop...

How might the K12 library evolve to meet the needs of 21st century students and school communities? A team of K12 design experts from EHDD tackles this question and actively involves student populations to generate new design thinking. Emily Bello, Charlotte D’Acierno and Lalyn Yu explain how research suggested that an analog gaming approach might be the perfect solution to engage students in thei...

Can mass timber construction successfully meet the rigorous requirements for life science buildings? The structural engineers, sustainability leaders and designers at DES Architects & Engineers have done research, calculations, and designs to suggest it can. Listen in to Kenny Hung and Tom Parrish enthusiastically describe their journey of discovery.

A consortium of concerned built-environment professionals created the CARE tool enabling users to compare the total carbon impacts of renovating an existing building vs. replacing it with a new one. Listen in to this fast-paced conversation with Erin McDade from Architecture 2030 and Lori Ferriss from Goody Clancy, describing the CARE tool features and benefits to effect climate action in the buil...

The need to address inclusivity and belonging in the workplace along with recognized wellbeing attributes drove the team at QA to consider how and where to insert that in the design process. Kate Albee and Roderick Allen joined the ONEder podcast to describe their research process and learnings, as well as the toolkit they developed to integrate corporate values and holistic wellness into workplac...

Three percent of manufacturing businesses are owned by women, and just imagine the leadership style they bring to their organizations. Susan Pilato, CEO of Mantra Inspired Furniture, shares her story of commitment, concern and celebration of American craftsmanship on this ONEder podcast. Modeling a simple code of behaviors, part...

What can make students be, and maybe more importantly, feel safe in schools today? How might design thinking and community engagement contribute to successful student learning, growth and wellness? Stanford d. School colleagues sam seidel and Barry Svigals share their exploration, thinking, tools and design solutions to empower collaboration between schools and their broad communities to deliver s...

You’re already working in the metaverse, and you’re about to become more comfortable with its next iteration. Erin McDannald, CEO of Environments, spends this rich half hour sharing the steps she and her company have taken to design and immerse their staff and clients in digital twins, to meet and collaborate, conduct training, manage logistics and distribution, and choose lighting solutions while...

From explaining how and why play works to build social skills and responsibility, to reframing the substitute teaching experience for both students and teachers, to leading a course on social entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Jill Vialet intentionally considers how to infuse delight into each endeavor and how people will feel. Listen in to learn more, consider different pers...

Curious about the latest thinking in digital healthcare? Want to know how your family might access specific types of health services in the not-too-distant future? Spend thirty minutes with Megan Zweig, COO of Rock Health, and learn what challenges creators and developers are thinking about and working on. The conversation is fast paced, expansive and informative, enjoy!

Need an energy boost? Listening to Debra Levin talk about her passion for improving health design is much better for you than caffeine or Red Bull. The story of how the Center for Health Design came to be, all the work it accomplishes and the good it has done for the professions of health care and design will bring you a boost of wellness and optimism beyond belief.

A design strategist, a data strategist and an architecture professor walk into a bar…no they’re talking about research and reflections on creativity and how creative intelligence might be positively impacted by the workplace environment. It’s a mind-expanding course in environmental psychology and nuance definitions of creativity. Get in a comfortable spot to listen in.

What are the best activities available to engage varied stakeholders? Experts on public design projects at Noll + Tam share their detailed evaluation of decades of their own work to identify a comprehensive engagement toolkit to consider during the design engagement process.

Designer Kelly Hendrickson and NAC had a vision for a space to help reduce trauma in children, a place to make children and their parents/caregivers feel calmer and gain a sense of control. Hear how they partnered with Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery in Spokane WA to deliver a Stay Play Learn Indoor Garden and bring this vision to reality.

The conversation about social interaction and building community in the workplace has dominated the landscape recently. Is it why people are coming back to the workplace? Gensler design strategists Amin Mojtahedi and Oliatan Awomolo test that hypothesis and take a look at what people mean by social interaction in the workplace from a Social Network Analysis perspective. And are there more desirabl...

The creation of caring, inclusive, participatory communities fosters deep learning and a sense of well-being in learning environments. The Artik research team shares their insights and perspectives with us on how built environments can support the creation of a sense of community. And they review evidence-based interventions and strategies to support this which can be found in a website they built...

Interested in future of retail brick and morter, the mashup of retail, workplace and hospitality, or the future of urban downtown areas? If so, you’ll want to listen in to some great stories in this episode. Brand strategist, consumer trend expert, architect and master storyteller, Joan Insel, meanders with us through her delightful observations and well informed experiences.

You want the places where you work to support your health and wellness, right? Workplace strategist Kelly Griffin chats with us about the evolution and the science behind creating healthy human workplaces. From our beginnings in the savannah, molecular biology Brain Rules, and the 90:15 equation, there’re some great nuggets here to help make your workplace more human.

Grab a cup of coffee. Architect, Interior Designer, Educator, Author, Editor and Advocate, Annie Chu shares her passions about the evolving balance between architecture and interior design, the state of design education, new and changing definitions for space and place, the economic and class discrimination aspects of the Interior Design licensure, Unmentionables and so much more.