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Our Special Projects Director Eric J. Cesal is a designer, writer, noted post-disaster expert, and podcast host.
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Social Design Insights is a weekly podcast produced by the Curry Stone Foundation. Through conversation with leading designers, it provide insights into innovative projects and practices tha...

Our Special Projects Director Eric J. Cesal is a designer, writer, noted post-disaster expert, and podcast host.

Dr. Ken Yeang is a Malaysian architect and ecologist delivering and pioneering the field of hyper-green architecture.

Alex Steffen is an award-winning writer, speaker and foresight consultant, focused on climate change and planetary sustainability.

Bruce King, PE, natural building advocate, joins us to discuss his new book “The New Carbon Architecture: Building to Cool the Planet”

Mary Ann Lazarus is an American architect and longtime leader in the field of sustainable design.

Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism...

Dr. Kian Goh, RA, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She researches the relationshi...

Eric Corey Freed award-winning American architect, author, speaker and green strategist, joins us to talk about the state of the union in gr...

Rania Qawasma of Architecture for Refugees joins us to discuss what designers can do to help welcome refugees.

Anna Meddaugh is an American designer who developed a personal, reusable urinal designed for women and girls in refugee camps to use at nigh...

Initially a “wedding registry for humanitarian aid,” NeedsList is software that any organization can license to match needs and offers in re...

The Refugee Academy is a Berlin-based non-profit that creates learning spaces for refugees seeking to assimilate.

Mariam Traore Chazalnoel is a Senior Policy Officer at the Geneva Headquarters of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Dr. Nina Hall’s advocacy and research span varying fields. Her professional work looks specifically at how international agencies like UNHCR...

Kilian Kleinschmidt is an international networker, development, and migration expert with 30 years of experience in a wide range of countrie...

Amanda Baillieu founded Archiboo in 2014 as a new kind of architectural discussion space, building on the changing landscape of design media...

Asad Syrkett is a design editor, writer and brand strategist in Brooklyn, New York. He currently works at Elle Decor as their Editor in Chie...

Spencer Bailey of Phaidon Publishing joins us to discuss concepts of ‘slow’ media, and how to be more conscientious about the media we consu...

Diana Budds is a design writer & producer based in New York City. She writes, edits and produces stories about design at all scales, with a...

Aaron Seward is a writer and editor with over 20 years of experience in architectural publishing, currently serving as the Managing Editor a...

Jerome Harris is an American graphic designer and educator whose research focuses on omitted narratives of African American designers in the...

Alissa Walker is a journalist and design advocate well-known for her work on urbanism and mobility. Her work examines pressing urban issues...

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

Hal Aronson, Ph.D., is the co-founder of WE CARE Solar – an organization that provides light and power to medical facilities across the deve...

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 med...

Ken Banks, Founder of kiwanja.net, devotes himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change. He...

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

Katie Crepeau is a consultant whose work helps social impact designers grow their organizations.

Designer, educator, and business strategist, Dr. Cheryl Heller’s work focuses on investigating the impacts of social design on human health...

Kyle Reis has extensive corporate and social design experience, allowing him to be a valuable consultant in a range of fields. Currently, al...

Orkidstudio is a social enterprise based in Nairobi, Kenya, which focuses not only on the design of great buildings, but on the design of de...

For twenty years, the Prince Claus Fund and the Prince Claus Award has supported cultural development and practice in Latin America, Africa,...

Katie Swenson is a nationally recognized design leader, researcher, writer, and educator. Her work explores how critical design practice can...

Building upon an expansive career aiding in the education and support of designers, Jason Schupbach is the Dean of the Westphal College of M...

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 agricu...

By the middle of this century, up to 300 million people will be displaced by climate change and climate change disasters. What is the ethica...

Wakefield is an Urban Studies Foundation Research Fellow at Florida International University in the Department of Global and Sociocultural S...

As the world faces a rising tide of disasters and climate-induced migration, there are serious questions as to whether the design community...

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.

Alexander 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 educator and scholar promoting inclusivity in the cultural makeup of city-making design professions. K...

Christian Benimana is the founder of the African Design Center. He was formerly the principal and managing director at MASS Design Group.