Daniel Feldman and Adam Reineck of Ideo.org join us to talk about human-centered design.

Hal Aronson, Ph.D, is the Director of Technology and Education and the co-founder of WE CARE Solar – an organization working to provide light & power to medical facilities across the developing world.

Michelle Moghtader is the Director of Global Development & Co-Founder of Shared Studios, as well as a journalist and community organizer.

D-Rev, a nonprofit product development company based in San Francisco designs, develops and distributes radically affordable world-class medical products

Ken Banks is the author of two books on social innovation and entrepreneurship: The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator, and Musings of a Mobile Anthropologist: Tales of Technology, Anthropology, Conservation and Development.

Emiliano Gandolfi and Eric Cesal reflect on a full year of Social Design Insights.

Katie Crepeau joins us to talk about the challenges of starting and growing a social design practice.

Cheryl Heller is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts in New York, New York, and President of the design lab CommonWise.

Kyle Reis is widely known throughout the philanthropic world as a champion of social design.

Orkidstudio is a social enterprise based in Nairobi, Kenya, which focuses not only on the design of great buildings, but on the design of design & construction processes in ways that promote equity, inclusion, and...

For twenty years, the Prince Claus Fund and the Prince Claus Award has supported cultural development and practice in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. The Fund supports artists and practitioners from many...

Swenson is currently undertaking a Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she studies the role of love as an animus for design – asking how our cities and neighborhoods might look...

Jason Schupbach is the director of The Design School at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. There, he’s undertaking an ambitious effort to ‘redesign design school,’ looking for ways...

We had a chance to speak with Marcin Jakubowski on Social Design Insights, where he and our host Eric Cesal spoke about the future of agriculture, industry, and how to make more evolved humans.

By the middle of this century, up to 300 million people will be displaced by climate change and climate change disasters. What is the ethical role of designers in adapting the built environment to such...

Wakefield is an Urban Studies Foundation Research Fellow at Florida International University in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies. Her work, developed over the past decade of teaching and research in New York City, explores...

As the world faces a rising tide of disasters and climate-induced migration, there are serious questions as to whether the design community is prepared to offer solutions meaningful to the crises humanity faces.

Mario and Nuno do Rosario discuss the history of design in Mozambique from Independence to the present-day.

Mario and Nuno do Rosario discuss the history of design in Mozambique from Independence to the present-day.

Architect Hsieh Ying-Chun joins host Eric Cesal to talk about how people can power rebuilding after disaster.

Mathew Sanders details the pioneering struggle of the people of Isle de Jean Charles in confronting climate change.

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

Two central figures in public art and community building unveil how they help communities take control of their own futures.

Two central figures in public art and community building unveil how they help communities take control of their own futures.

Black in Design is a student-led biennial gathering which confronts issues of race and equity throughout the design professions.

Black in Design is a student-led biennial gathering which confronts issues of race and equity throughout the design professions.

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 Rwandan architect dedicated to addressing the rapid growth and urbanization of Africa’s population.

Doina Petrescu is an architect and educator who currently serves as the Chair of Architecture and Design Activism at the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield.

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 David Langdon of the Architecture Lobby discuss how cultures in education shape problems in the profession.

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

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 reveal their global projects on urbanism and resistance.

Laura Kurgan 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 join us to discuss how design can support or deconstruct systems of institutional oppression.

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 join us to discuss the architecture of incarceration, and how their respective work campaigns for reform.

Deanna Van Buren and Raphael Sperry join us to discuss the architecture of incarceration, and how their respective work campaigns for reform.

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 join Eric and Emiliano to discuss the first year of Social Design Insights and look to what’s ahead.

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

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.