Best Hassell Designing Places People Love Podcasts (2024)

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Finding more meaningful value in Retrofit and Repurpose 42:12

11M ago42:12

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Retrofitting and repurposing existing structures can achieve decarbonisation goals, enhance occupancy, attract investment, and rejuvenate cities – all while reducing environmental impact. No wonder our industry can't stop talking about it. It no longer makes sense to demolish unoccupied buildings, as it's neither cost-effective nor aligned with our…

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Bringing all the pieces together in Melbourne’s innovation precinct 1:18:42

1y ago1:18:42

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Parkville, Melbourne — home to one of the world’s leading biomedical innovation communities. Arden — the next stage of the expanding Parkville innovation ecosystem. These precincts serve as catalysts where ideas, industries, and investors converge — shaping the places that unite us. In this episode we explore the threads that hold these precincts t…

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Great Adaptations: 2023 Workplace Futures Survey with Ingrid Bakker and Daniel Davis 13:37

1y ago13:37

13:37

Companies that have changed their offices and ways of working since the pandemic have a 17% higher satisfaction score among employees than those that haven’t. That's a big number - just one of many fascinating data points out of our 2023 Workplace Futures Survey. We're calling this one Great Adaptations. Our annual survey casts a light on the link …

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Lessons for Brisbane from the London Olympics. With Caroline Stalker, Andrew Comer and Ashley Munday 33:41

1y ago33:41

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On this episode of Hassell Talks, architect and urbanist Caroline Stalker joined retired Partner of Buro Happald Andrew Comer and architect, urbanist and Head of Design Ashley Munday to explore the potential mechanisms for creating a successful Olympic and Paralympic Games legacy for Brisbane and SEQ. London's approach was to look beyond 2012 - to …

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Campus chemistry and transformational learning - With Julian Gitsham and Professors Tim O’Brien and Teresa Anderson (Encore Episode) 24:11

1y ago24:11

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Architect Julian Gitsham sat down with Professors Tim O'Brien and Teresa Anderson to record this conversation about designing the best campus environments for transformational learning. And who better to quiz than the minds behind the bluedot festival? Located at the UNESCO listed Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, home to the Lovell Telescope, …

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Country’s voice is loud and clear. Are designers listening? Part 2. With Kat Rodwell and Hannah Galloway 48:37

1+ y ago48:37

48:37

You asked, Kat answered! Get ready for our 'Epic Yarn' - Part 2. Part 1 saw Landscape Architect Hannah Galloway explore the topic of ‘Listening’ with First Nations Consultant, Cultural Advisor and Storyteller Kat Rodwell. For the second half of this Epic Yarn, we asked listeners to send in questions to ask Kat - and boy, did you deliver. No questi…

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Country’s voice is loud and clear: are designers listening? Part 1. With Kat Rodwell and Hannah Galloway 47:07

1+ y ago47:07

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Are you ready for an 'Epic Yarn'? Listening lies at the heart of so much of what designers do, but listening to what Country and Culture is telling us means connecting deeply and meaningfully with the land and its people. How well are designers — and organisations, individuals and communities — listening to these voices? Together with Landscape Arc…

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Inside the push for net zero Perth. With Karla Fox-Reynolds, Dr. Brad Pettitt MLC and Professor Josh Byrne 38:56

1+ y ago38:56

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Perth in Western Australia has joined thousands of other cities around the world aiming for Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050. How will this unique city, facing unique climate challenges, meet the target? And how will designers help the city go beyond the standards to beat the clock and make a thriving, regenerative hub? Hassell’s Sustainable Desig…

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Housing Futures — Designing heart and soul into affordable alternatives with Fiona Dunster and Jeremy Schluter 27:46

1+ y ago27:46

27:46

With a housing crisis affecting cities and people, we're taking a look at the close ties between design and innovation in the residential sector. How are emerging housing models responding to community needs? What role is design playing in ensuring projects can still succeed despite cost, supply and climate challenges? And what makes larger scale r…

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The ordinary, everyday buildings that could save our cities, with Razvan Ghilic-Micu 29:18

1+ y ago29:18

29:18

It is time to move on from the pursuit of iconic architecture. The issues keeping our clients and collaborators up at night are the same things pushing our cities closer to the cusp of wholesale change. Things like the competition around attracting and keeping great tenants, providing magnetic experiences and destination workplaces in uncertain tim…

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The 15 Minute City - what’s not to like about convenience, equity and sustainability? With Camilla Siggaard Andersen (Encore Episode) 32:27

1+ y ago32:27

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The 15 Minute City has become a hot topic - gaining traction in corners of the internet not typically involved in the dialogue around city planning and urban living. With forward-thinking conversations threatened to be overtaken by conspiracy theories, we wanted to share an episode we recorded with London-based research lead Camilla Siggaard Anders…

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Housing futures with Jeremy Schluter and Michael McCormack: Is the crisis leading to new design solutions for our cities? 25:20

1+ y ago25:20

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They say there's no place like home. In Europe, Australia, the US and Asia - there's not enough quality housing stock to go around, and limited affordable choice in the types of homes available. The current generation of renters and buyers are connected, design-savvy and socially aware. They are driving the demand for homes that challenge tradition…

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A big, shared idea for Brisbane beyond 2032 — with Ken Maher AO, Caroline Stalker and Prof. Helen Lochhead. 20:32

1+ y ago20:32

20:32

How did Sydney, London, and Barcelona pull off Olympic-sized events that delivered enduring, generational change? In 2032, southeast Queensland - a region with the city of Brisbane at its heart - will host the summer Olympics and Paralympics. The Games create extraordinary opportunities for communities, economies, and cultures to design legacies fo…

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Equity, Sustainability and Regeneration in the Built Environment 52:47

2y ago52:47

52:47

Feeling overwhelmed in the face of climate and sustainability challenges? Have we got the episode for you. With the built environment contributing to around 40% of global emissions, our industry has a critical – and pivotal - role to play to limit the projected impacts of climate change to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century…

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Return to the garden: the unexpected emotional value of nature in cities. With Professor Nigel Dunnett, Michael McCoy and Jon Hazelwood 26:26

2y ago26:26

26:26

*ENCORE EPISODE* Nature in our cities. If you're paying attention you'll notice the effect it's having on you. The slowed heart rate, a stolen moment to notice flickering leaves, buzzing insects, birds landing. Those designed-for, natural moments in our cities aren't in stasis - they're constantly changing and also spontaneous, influencing how we m…

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Lessons from Country: creating better outcomes together with First Nations people 17:11

2y ago17:11

17:11

"What you create as an organisation has to be something that pushes the boundaries everywhere," said Co-Director of Danjoo Koorliny, Carol Innes AM to a gathering of designers, government representatives clients and First Nations collaborators. This gathering, as part of Hassell's Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) journey aimed to listen and learn f…

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The 2022 Workplace Futures Survey. With Daniel Davis and Domino Risch 29:11

2y ago29:11

29:11

When it comes to how workers feel about their workplace, it's hard to mount an argument against three years' worth of data and insights into possibly the most disruptive period for workers in memory. Senior Researcher Daniel Davis has been studying the effects and challenges facing workplaces in our Annual Workplace Futures Survey since 2020, and t…

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How to design for safety and inclusion in a fast changing city. Alix Smith, Chris Lamborn and Associate Professor Nicole Kalms 13:27

2y ago13:27

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Rail precincts don't always feel like the safest places to be for women, girls and the gender diverse, particularly after dark. Alert and constantly on guard, it's a relentless navigation of sightlines, lighting, exposure, surveillance and positioning for safety. As designers, we believe we can do more than simply meet the governing standards and t…

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Designing for spontaneity and delight in our cities. With Jon Hazelwood, Su Lim, Chong Wang, Hannah Fox. 24:03

2y ago24:03

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Welcome back to Season 4 of Hassell Talks! This season we're taking a look at Designing for a New State of Togetherness. We believe good things - great things - can happen when people come together through seemingly spontaneous experiences. The emotional response we get when we’re surprised or delighted is hugely powerful. It can help us feel more …

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Stories of rapid innovation, healing and design from Herston Biofabrication Institute. With Mathilde Desselle and Carolyn Solley 24:40

2+ y ago24:40

24:40

While technology rapidly advances — people, by contrast, remain constant. Creatures of habit, we need others to survive. We are the sum of our skin, our organs and body parts. Our minds distinguish us, and our intelligence is key to survival but it's our ability to work together that tells the true story of our potential. The team behind the Hersto…

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Campus design should be ’a strange beast’ of art, science and design. with Professors Teresa Anderson and Tim O’Brien, and Julian Gitsham 27:56

2+ y ago27:56

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What does bouncing Kraftwerk’s music off the surface of the moon have to do with the future of the university campus? Universities are paying close attention to the way interstellar music-science-arts-technology-culture experience makers bluedotfestival engage audiences in cross-disciplinary learning. But how far do they need to go on campus? Turns…

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SPECIAL EPISODE. MTalks presents: Illumination - data, knowledge and design 49:05

2+ y ago49:05

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To celebrate the start of Melbourne Design Week, we’re excited to share a podcast from Australia’s leading architecture commission MPavilion. The MPavilion MTalks series brings some of Melbourne’s brightest and most creative minds together on the lands of the Eastern Kulin Nation, to debate, share ideas and be inspired. The episode you're about to …

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One big, unsafe bottleneck: Redesigning Emergency Departments for safety and flow 25:35

2+ y ago25:35

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Even before Covid-19, many working in the health system would claim that Emergency Departments weren’t in the best of health. The narrative in the media, and from clinicians themselves, paints a picture of overcrowded spaces, overwhelmed and unsafe for patients and staff, bottlenecked and stretched beyond capacity yet growing bigger – and bigger - …

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Closer, together: can Ireland warm to an urban future? With Camilla Siggaard Andersen, Brian Moran, Ali Grehan, Pat Farrell and Niamh Moore Cherry 32:29

2+ y ago32:29

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Cities around the world are committing themselves to creating compact, amenity-rich neighbourhoods as they tackle the challenges of climate change, urban sprawl and wellbeing. Ireland’s cities, with their history, natural amenities and passionate residents seem more ready-made than most to embrace an agenda of compact growth. But despite national p…

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Burnt Out? Mental health in design 34:16

3y ago34:16

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Mental health is making headlines - including in the architecture and design industry as the cumulative effects of living and working through a second year of the global Covid-19 pandemic start to become known. So how can organisations, the industry, and individuals, take advantage of this moment to establish change and in doing so, protect the lon…

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A shot in the arm: How COVID-19 transformed telehealth and hospital design 18:48

3+ y ago18:48

18:48

Finding it both necessary and convenient, patients and clinicians across Australia embraced the change brought about by COVID-19 and took to telehealth in huge numbers – jumping from one million service events in March 2020 to six million a month later in April. Healthcare is traditionally an area that can be slow to change, so this leap in uptake …

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Connection, trust and safety: co-working and COVID-19 15:22

3+ y ago15:22

15:22

At the heart of any co-working environment is the idea that it can do much more than provide a hotspot and a hot coffee. The best ones ask: Can we build a great like-minded community? In the COVID-19 context, the best co-working spaces then ask whether they can solve some of the challenges thrown up by the pandemic to design for safety and trust in…

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How big data can challenge - and validate - the design process 16:13

3+ y ago16:13

16:13

We're back for Season Two of Hassell Talks - thanks for joining us! Once practically unthinkable, silent city centres were a feature of 2020. And to attract people back as the COVID-19 recovery picks up pace across the globe, the challenge lies in truly understanding how and why spaces work. The solution might be staring us – city shapers and desig…

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Re-emerge resilient: what can trends tell us about the future for cities, spaces and designers 18:22

3+ y ago18:22

18:22

We don’t know exactly what our lives, work and communities will look like post COVID-19. But one thing we’re sure of is that some of the trends we saw developing over the past few years have only accelerated since the global pandemic took hold. They’re trends that are changing how we reimagine or repurpose spaces, think about mobility, and connect …

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The role of data in workplace design in the era of COVID19 20:46

4y ago20:46

20:46

Whether you’re a CEO, a property manager or a workplace designer, the office has been the headline conversation of 2020. How many will go back? What will it look like? How will workplace culture change? Whatever line of inquiry you follow, we know a mix of qualitative and quantitative insights will give us the greatest handle on what’s happening in…

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What’s next for workplace campuses? 28:16

4y ago28:16

28:16

How can corporate campuses lure us out of our homes (and pyjamas) and back to the office in a COVID-wary world? And how will they keep us coming back, with remote working more compelling or essential than ever? Some designers say the ‘hardware’ of a campus is what makes it magnetic. For them, it’s about the architecture, spaces and settings that g…

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Naturalistic Planting | Part 3: The value - and significance - of emotional connections to nature in cities 12:48

4y ago12:48

12:48

Plants in our cities are important for many reasons, like supporting urban cooling and biodiversity as well as human wellbeing and health. But they also impact on the economies of our cities. Green cities are just as attractive to developers and investors as those who just want to stop and smell the roses. Parts 1 and 2 looked at why we value wild,…

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Naturalistic Planting | Part 2: Is 'native' the only answer to the biodiversity question? 14:16

4y ago14:16

14:16

The debate around native or exotic urban planting can sometimes be a thorny one, culturally, environmentally and emotionally and over the longer term, climate change brings the role of planting and landscape into sharp focus as we consider the future health of our cities. Wholly exotic landscapes bring with them issues of culture, context and invas…

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Naturalistic Planting | Part 1: What's the value of nature in the city anyway? 13:20

4y ago13:20

13:20

It might be hard to measure, but we know interacting with nature has an impact on our emotions – and that’s never been more apparent in cities during lockdown. But does the kind of planting we encounter in urban environments matter? Are planned and cultivated spaces what we need, or could we be craving ‘wilder’, less predictable landscapes that ful…

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A better fit: tailoring design for a sustainable future 12:53

4y ago12:53

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Beyond the impeccable dress sense, designers working in fashion and city-making have a lot in common - both sectors can have indisputable impacts on the world - on a very large scale. Right now they also have an opportunity to think more deeply about the impact of their work on people, places and our collective future. While fashion is often fast a…

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Autonomy, mastery and meaning: What the next generation of design talent wants. With Jan Owen AM and Steve Coster. 21:51

4y ago21:51

21:51

Can design firms be truly future-focused if they’re not appealing to the next generation? What will attract the best designers of the future? How do firms give talent the right platforms to make a positive difference? We are obsessed with how design can make a difference in the future. We asked Jan Owen AM, Co Chair / Convenor of Learning Creates A…

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S1, Ep8 The architectural scientist and the scientific architect. With Sanjeev Gupta and Xavier de Kestelier 16:32

4+ y ago16:32

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Stepping carefully up to the crater’s edge, white boots kicking up swirls of red dust, the figure lowers themselves carefully down to sit on an ancient boulder - and pulls out an A3 sketchpad. The stranger surveys the Martian landscape, interrogates the form and flowing expanse in front of them and starts to sketch out a narrative created over mill…

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S1, Ep7 What can emergencies teach us about design? With Greg Kochanowski, Molly Peterson and Richard Mullane 18:14

4+ y ago18:14

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Events like COVID-19, wildfires and hurricanes teach us valuable lessons about the way people – and the public places built for them – respond and recover post disaster. If they’re not confined to their homes, communities are separated – scattering to places for medical attention, shelter or to the comfort of community. They could find themselves a…

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S1, Ep6 Student life: Why the campus is still critical to the university experience 11:03

5y ago11:03

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Universities want to show their students and academics a really good time - the better the experience, the more appealing it is to stay a while for study, work and play. The multi-million dollar marketing campaigns may draw in the curious crowds, but what makes them stick around? Researcher Michaela Sheahan hosted a panel conversation in our Brisba…

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S1, Ep5 Humanitarian Architecture: how powerful design can help change the world. With Bryan Bell, Dr Esther Charlesworth and Mark Loughnan 11:55

5y ago11:55

11:55

From a powerful example of design’s crucial role of healing in post-genocide Rwanda to a city’s solution to homelessness, this episode of HassellTalks examines how deploying, measuring and demonstrating the value of design is critically important to addressing the most pressing humanitarian challenges of our time. Designers have “freaking superhero…

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S1, Ep3 The ’cool’ test: What can advertisers teach us about designing places people love? With Adam Ferrier and Andy Low. 15:34

5y ago15:34

15:34

Fact: People are willing - happy even - to pay more for their scrambled eggs if they're eating them in a 'cool' cafe. The value of 'cool' to business is undisputed. But if we take it a step further, can large organisations really embody 'cool' - and attract talent - when it comes to designing their workplaces? Here's where the advertising industry …

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S1, Ep4 Why the best designed cities reflect the best of us. With Ross de la Motte and Ralph Ashton 14:56

5y ago14:56

14:56

Sydney today faces the same pressures as all modern cities – growth, resources, infrastructure and resilience. The interpersonal fabric of modern-day Sydney contrasts to its healthy past – the challenges of isolation and a vast mental health crisis in our communities, pervasive social media, our collective response to climate change and biodiversit…

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S1, Ep2 Solving the ’problem’ with academic workplace 15:43

5y ago15:43

15:43

It’s a brave dean that tests out a new way of working on academics and research staff - and yet that’s exactly what the School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne did. The future workspace at the Melbourne School of Engineering (MSE) will need to accommodate over 1800 users across three locations by 2025. To provide for its people and its…

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S1, Ep1 The 60,000 year gap in the Australian design scene. With Elisapeta Heta and guests 14:52

5y ago14:52

14:52

A glance at any Australian town or city shows one of the world’s oldest continuous cultures is largely absent. A side note, rarely the headline. And is it any wonder, with only around 20 Indigenous Australian architects practicing in 2019? It’s not just an Australian story. There’s a lot to be learned from other experiences too. In the first episod…

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