Marcin Jakubowski is the founder of Open Source Ecology, an open collaborative of engineers, producers, and builders developing new solutions for a changing world. Marcin joins host Eric Cesal to talk about how to build civilization.

Maggie Stephenson is a Senior Technical Advisor for UN-Habitat who advocates for a people-centered approach to help those affected by natural disaster and conflict. Maggie speaks with us about the challenges of positioning design in recovery efforts.

Geographer Stephanie Wakefield introduces her theories on resilience, the ‘backloop’ of the Anthropocene and how we can survive all this.

Host Eric Cesal and Dr. Esther Charlesworth discusses strategies for teaching new generations of designers about disaster.

Mario and Nuno do Rosario are the principals of arquitectura e planeamento limitada, a family owned design practice in Maputo, Mozambique, focusing on sustainable, cost-controlled, durable and energy-efficient design processes.

Mario and Nuno do Rosario are the principals of arquitectura e planeamento limitada, a family owned design practice in Maputo, Mozambique, focusing on sustainable, cost-controlled, durable and energy-efficient design processes.

Architect Hsieh Ying-Chun joins host Eric Cesal to talk about how people can power rebuilding after disaster. Hsieh Ying-Chun is a leading Taiwanese architect and contractor who works throughout Asia, training villagers to build locally appropriate dwellings in response to earthquake devastation.

Mathew Sanders details the pioneering struggle of the people of Isle de Jean Charles in confronting climate change.Mathew Sanders is the Resilience Program and Policy Administrator for the state of Louisiana’s Office of Community Development who is leading the development for a project that’s the first of its kind.…

Zander Rose of the Long Now Foundation speaks with us about how designers can design better by thinking differently about time.

This is the second part of a two-part episode of Social Design Insights recorded at the Dutch tech culture festival Border Sessions with two central figures in public art and community building, Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk and Italian architect/artist/activist Lorenzo Romito, from the collective Stalker. During this electric conversation v ...…

This is the first part of a two-part episode of Social Design Insights recorded at the Dutch tech culture festival Border Sessions with two central figures in public art and community building, Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk and Italian architect/artist/activist Lorenzo Romito, from the collective Stalker. During this electric conversation va ...…

Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA is an activist educator and public scholar who promotes inclusivity in the cultural makeup of the city-making design professions.

Christian Benimana is a Rwandan architect confronting the challenges of emerging African cities through design education.

Hosts Eric Cesal and Karen Kubey talk to Courtney Sharpe and Amanda Miller of Black in Design about how to start student movements.

Hosts Eric Cesal and Karen Kubey talk to Courtney Sharpe and Amanda Miller of Black in Design about how to start student movements.

Doina Petrescu is an architect, researcher, and educator, focused on ideas of co-production and equity in design.

Hosts Eric Cesal and Karen Kubey visit with Coleman Coker, of the Gulf Coast Design Lab, and Sarah Curry, of AIAS to discuss the evolution of social design.

Dr. Jonathan Massey talks about the future of design education, and what radical experiments are underway.

Dr. Barbara Brown Wilson discusses the Design Futures Student Leadership Forum and how it seeks to train tomorrow’s leaders of public interest design.

Peggy Deamer and Andrew Langdon of the Architecture Lobby discuss how cultures in education shape problems in the profession.

Ursula Hartig and Bryan Bell offer us a glimpse into how Design for the Common Good can provide resources to practitioners and educators across the globe.

Sergio Palleroni and Jane Anderson offer a history of the collective effort to establish a global network of social design teachers and practitioners

Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller of Agency Architecture reveal their global projects on urbanism and resistance

Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller of Agency Architecture begin our discussion of tactical urbanism and the criminalization of informality.

Laura Kurgen of the Center for Spatial Research joins us to talk about how data and the design of data systems can be applied to social justice.

Bryan C. Lee Jr. and Sue Mobley of Colloqate Design continue our discussion of how to fight racism and oppression with design.

Bryan C. Lee Jr. and Sue Mobley of Colloqate Design join us to discuss how design can support or deconstruct systems of institutional oppression

Suzanne Lacy talks to us about the role of art in the pursuit of social justice, and how to navigate the lines between art, activism, design and space.

Deanna Van Buren and Raphael Sperry continue our discussion of how designers can advocate for social reform in our criminal justice system.

Designing Justice + Designing Spaces is a U.S. non-profit that uses innovative new prototype spaces like peacemaking centers, mobile villages and housingto address the root causes of mass incarceration.

Ronald Rael is an applied architectural researcher, design activist, author, and thought leader in the fields of additive manufacturing and earthen architecture.

John Cary is an American connector, writer, speaker and curator focused on social change

Cliff Curry and Delight Stone are American philanthropists and founders of the Curry Stone Design Prize

Diébédo Francis Kéré discusses offers lessons for young designers about how to design the future.

Diébédo Francis Kéré discusses the origins of his practice, and how good design builds community.

John Fetterman of Braddock, PA, shares his thoughts on how to imagine a new future in a post-industrial landscape.

Omar Nagati and Beth Stryker share their thoughts on CLUSTER Cairo, and the design of urban activism.

Dr. Silver of the Centre for Vision in the Developing World shares how innovative design can change the future for millions.

Iconoclasistas discusses the practice of collective mapping and how it can be mobilized to achieve social justice.

Kalle Lasn discusses ‘culture-jamming’ and political resistance.

Vera & Ruedi Barr of Civic City discuss how graphic design can be a tool of political change.

Lorenzo Romito of Stalker discusses the ‘territory’ of architecture and how it can be expanded.

Kathryn Ewing and Don Shay of VPUU outline how community-based planning can make real results in crime prevention.

Marco Clausen of Prinzessinnengärten discusses how they came to pioneer a form of mobile gardening, and the positive impacts it has had on their city.

Nance Klehm shares her experiences as a ‘radical ecologist’ and her strategies for helping cities connect with nature.

Jan Jongert of Superuse Studios shares experiences in designing new forms of ecology within the city.

Gail Vittori and Pliny Fisk introduce our hosts to their work, thinking at multiple scales about how to live & work ecologically.

Gail Vittori and Pliny Fisk introduce our hosts to their work, thinking at multiple scales about how to live & work ecologically.

Malkit Shoshan of the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory discusses the architecture of conflict.

Isella Rodriguez of the Hester Street Collaborative discusses their strategies for making communities be heard.