Social Design Insights was a podcast sponsored by the Curry Stone Foundation and hosted by yours truly. It is still on every platform and streaming service, but we haven’t recorded any new episodes since 2019. We began the show by asking ourselves what was next for the social impact design movement. Over the last twenty years, the social design movement has evolved from a fringe practice to the heart of the design community. What's next? Can we continue to make the world more just, more habitable, and more beautiful?
Over 2.5 years, I interviewed 156 of the world's leading social design minds and asked them about their successes, their failures, and how they see the future unfolding.
In this gallery you’ll find some of my favorite episodes.
On this episode, we talk with Alissa Walker, a journalist and design advocate well-known for her work on urbanism and mobility. After a brief stint in advertising, Walker began a career where “every day includes some combination of walking, writing and consuming gelato.” Her writing, speaking and advocacy examines issues of mass-transit, accessibility, climate change and other pressing urban issues.
On this episode, I had a chance to speak with Jerome Harris about his new exhibit, As, Not For: Dethroning our Absolutes. Harris has been researching and chronicling the omission of African American graphic designers since he was a student at Yale, and created the exhibit to bring attention to the fact that the contributions of many African American designers are chronically omitted when talking about the history of graphic design. Have a listen here and then go see the exhibit.
On this episode, I had a chance to speak with Line Ramstaad
On this episode, I had a chance to speak with Suzanne Lacy
On this episode, I had a chance to speak with Anshu Gupta of Goonj
On this episode, I had a chance to speak with Kalle Lasn about ‘culture-jamming’ and political resistance.
Adbusters was born during the #OccupyWallStreet protests, and today treats everything from politics to pranks, consumerism to cosmology, aesthetics to activism as within its purview. Kalle spoke of his interest in organizing a billion-person march, which made it an instant classic as far as I’m concerned.