Design Matters - Podcast March 15, 2021

Episode 2: How can we design Canadian homes for the externally displaced? Discussions about cultural displacement, refugees, and cultural adoption. This episode asks questions such as what are some examples of designs that have healed and helped to bring people together to create ...  Afficher plus

Episode 1: How can we overcome design biases in western education? What are some assumptions we make as designers? Is there bias in design? How has architecture served western values and what western values do they serve? This episode looks at dissecting the relationships between ...  Afficher plus

This episode originally aired on May 20, 2021. How do design and music influence one another? In this episode, Sam learns more about music’s impact on design and the shared mindsets of the creative process. He chats with R. Michael Hendrix, Partner and Global Director of Design a ...  Afficher plus

With our first episode, we tackle the Covid-19 pandemic question directly: how has it affected designers and the work they do? Our episode explores the changing nature of work from a designer's perspective. We also examine what it means to design during a pandemic - and how our a ...  Afficher plus

The Black Lives Matter movement has mobilized countless people all over the world in the urgent fight for true racial justice and equality, one of the most important issues of our time. In this episode, host Khoi Vinh and producers Dominic Girard and Pippa Johnstone examine the i ...  Afficher plus

With pretty much every design student in the world learning remotely, it’s a good moment to talk about the state of design education at the college and university level. To train a well-rounded designer, the number of things students need to learn increases every year, but the am ...  Afficher plus