Design Observer

Design As

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Who does design belong to, and who is it for? How does it serve us— all of us—and how can we learn to better understand its future, and our own? On Design As— podcast from Design Observer—we’ll dig into all of this and more, in conversation with design leaders, scholars, practitioners, and a range of industry experts whose seasoned perspectives will help illuminate the questions as well as the answers. In our first season, we considered the topics of Culture, Complexity, and Citizenship in terms of their impact on the design practice and also in terms of how they themselves are being shaped b...

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Design As S1E1: Culture Part 1 09.11.2023 47:02

On this episode of "Design As" Alicia Cheng, Lee Moreau, Lesley-Ann Noel, and Frederick van Amstel begin their discussion of the sometimes joyful, sometimes difficult relationship between culture and design. To read the transcript, visit DesignObserver.com . Subscribe to "Design As" on Apple podcasts , Spotify , or your favorite podcast player . Follow Design Observer on soc...

Design As S1E0: Introduction 01.11.2023 28:39

For three days in March, we gathered with some sixty people—designers and scholars, social entrepreneurs and independent consultants, creative leaders and senior practitioners from across a range of industries—to discuss the current state of everything from collaboration and craft to cultural transformation, technological innovation, and the social and systemic changes impacting the ways we live a...